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Need advice on upgrading to a fairly large eSATA drive
I’m currently running a quad 2.5 GHz Powermac G5 with 4.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM.
PCI-e model. Final Cut Studio 2 most updated. AJA Kona 3 Card with breakout box.
Panasonic 26″ Native HD Monitor HD-SDI.Up until now I’ve been using firewire 800 as I’ve been cutting mostly DVC-PROHD either Varicam or HVX-200.
I will be cutting HDCAM and RED footage in the very near future. I know that HDCAM needs at least 145Mbps bandwidth. I’m not sure about RED.
I’ve got about 2K to spend… maybe a couple hundred more. I need a couple terabytes and would prefer to have some mirrored safety on the drives.
I don’t know much about these types of drives or how they could be RAIDED together.
I’m looking for some advice on what types of drives might work for me?
Any advice would be appreciated.
thanks in advance!
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Oh yeah. I should mention that I have a line on this Kano Technologies drive for $1724.88 (this price includes tax and shipping).
Here is a link to the drive. https://www.kanotechnologies.com/products/XPD-5X500PM-E.cfm
anyone know this company?
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Do a search for RAID here, there’s been plenty of recommendations. Also, I would look at the Arizona Mac User Group website for reviews of different storage products (amug.org). A lot of people here use RAID level 0 because it’s the fastest, but if one disc goes down, you lose everything. Best bet is RAID 5 or 6 – you have 1 or 2 disks for parity, but it’s also slower. You decide.
Have not heard of Kano, but price sounds reasonable. If you don’t mind handling hardware, you can probably build that system yourself for about $1200.
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I can highly recommend MaxxDigital (www.maxxdigital.com) along with Dulce and Sonnet. I did some serious testing on 8TB versions of all their arrays and all of them performed well. We went with the MaxxDigital because we got the best performance out of them. Almost 500MB/s in RAID 5.
If you’re going to cut uncompressed HDCAM you need more than just a few TB depending on how much material you actually plan to work on at any given time. I went with 8TB for each room to give us plenty of room, even giving up some storage for the RAID 5 setting.
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I would highly suggest getting a hardware controlled raid over a software one.
BUT more importantly I would highly suggest NOT buying from DAT OPTIC…bad experience there.
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Does anyone know where i can find an easy to understand explanation for the different types of configurations for raids? I don’t know the difference between RAID 5, 10 and 1 ect…
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