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RAID External Solutions
Let me bring it on another time. I know this has been discussed many times and I found a lot of threads and great information through many forums and reviews. I’m going to setup a SD/HD editing workstation to work mainly with Uncompressed 8/10 bits footage. I’m searching for the perfect RAID external solution for this station. There will be the editor, obviously, but the producer also want to access the files with his MacBook to cut some short clips on his own. Would it be better for him to get access via Ethernet Gbit or FW800 could do the job ? Through all manufacturers, Ciprico and G-Tech seem to stand out for many pros editors, but they are very pricey, so maybe I could be looking for others like Firmtek, Sonnet, Kano, Enhance Tech, Granite Digital, what do you think about that ? I need about 2TB.
Thanks!
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I forgot to mention, Ciprico and G-Tech are FibreChannel, but maybe eSATA could really well suite my needs ?
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For great performance at budget prices your can’t beat a SATA array, especially as they allow for hot swapping the very best bare drives available, which are now at bargain prices. The Firmtek 2 and 4 bay SATA solutions are great, but the new Sonnet unit looks very attractive — its quite reasonably priced and uses a newer controller card that uses just a single cable.
Your producer cutting on his laptop should simply copy files from your system to his hard drive over using ethernet, but he really shouldn’t be editing using the raid array on the main system.
DRW
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But aren’t the ethernet RAID solutions built for that ? Ciprico’s DiMedia and LaCie’s EtherDisk seem to work for this kind of business, no ?
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And I would really need RAID 5.
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The golden triangle paradigm applies:
CHEAPER – FASTER – BETTER — Pick any two…
The drive arrays with Raid-5 capability will cost you a bundle, its that simple.
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Ethernet raid solutions might be fine for editing DV, but not mush more than that now. That might change soon, but, you are essentially wanting a SAN (shared network storage) solution and that will cost you.
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[David Roth Weiss] ”
The golden triangle paradigm applies:
CHEAPER – FASTER – BETTER — Pick any two…”
I think the rule with RAID arrays is
CHEAPER – FASTER – PROTECTED — Pick any two
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Protected/Faster is the way to go, but with some limits. I’ll look for eSATA arrays.
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G-SATA seems to be perfect if I got 2, for 2TB.
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With no protection though. They are Raid 0.
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