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  Posted by Chuckfaz on January 28, 2007 at 5:02 pm

  What’s the advantage of any RAID drive over a non raid drive? I’m contemplating just getting the non raid G-tech mini so why should I spend the money for the RAID version?

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  Chuck
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  Shane Ross

  January 28, 2007 at 8:18 pm

  Speed and additional RT with many codecs….if you add multiple layers. With a regular firewire drive you might get 2-3 layers of RT video if you edit DV. A Raid will get your more layers of RT.

  Plus you can work with larger formats like Uncompressed SD and HD.

  Shane
  
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  Gary Adcock

  January 28, 2007 at 10:28 pm

  [chuckfaz] “What’s the advantage of any RAID drive over a non raid drive?”

  Chuck
  RAIDS ( Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives) allow for greater performance on capture- and when working in HD content I would not ever suggest someone capture to a single drive. Drives like the Graid Mini allow a user the highest bandwidth for capture and playback with the least amount of effort or Overhead.

  I was lucky enough to test some of the early versions of the mini and was very impressed. 10bt SD and DVCPROHD compressed content played back flawlessly.

  gary adcock
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