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Raid Recommendations
Does anyone have a recommendation for a safe raid, somewhere between 5TB and 10TB? I’m doing mostly DVCPROHD, but also do Uncompressed 8bit HD once and a while. I’m tired of my little cheap drives failing and am making the leap to something a little higher end. Any recommendations would be helpful.
Greg Jones
D7,Inc.
Orlando,FL.
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MaxxDigital.com I run 2 of their EVO HD units, 8TB each. Up to 500MB/s in RAID 5 and 1200MB/s if you stripe two units together.
They’re also a reseller of Dulce, Sonnet, CalDigit and others.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[walter biscardi] “and 1200MB/s if you stripe two units together.”
Is that with both units in a RAID 5 and then you stripe those together at a RAID 0, or is that both units RAID 0 all the way?
You’re using the ATTO R380 right?
By the way, I love the line, “Bob Zelin approved and Walter Biscardi Recommended!” on the MaxxDigital.com website. That’s great!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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Oh and one more question for you Walter, when you use two of the units, you need two cards in a computer unless you have a PCI-Express expansion box, right?
If you have two cards in a computer, does that interfere with a card like the Kona 3?
Thanks,
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
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I’ll toss out my recommendation to the HDPro from CalDigit. Raid 5, 400MB/s…great for 11 streams of DVCPRO HD (quite a Brady Bunch window).
Shane
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[Russell Lasson] ”
Is that with both units in a RAID 5 and then you stripe those together at a RAID 0, or is that both units RAID 0 all the way?You’re using the ATTO R380 right?”
Yep using R380. I’m honestly not sure if that was Raid 0 or 5, but my guess would be Raid 0. I’ll see if I can get Ron to chime in and let us know for sure.
https://blogs.creativecow.net/node/437
[Russell Lasson] “By the way, I love the line, “Bob Zelin approved and Walter Biscardi Recommended!” on the MaxxDigital.com website. That’s great!”
Yeah, they’re having some fun with that. I cracked up the first time I saw their banner running our photos here on the Cow. But alas, our photos are coming off the Cow banners shortly, but you’ll see our mugs on the Maxx site, but I’m kind of upset that Bessie is so much larger than Bob and I over there!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Greg –
After much researching I recently bought a 6 terabyte Maxxdigital and couldn’t be more pleased. Fast, quiet, incredibly easy to install and did i say fast? Walter’s figures are about right – at raid 5 it was reading at about 515 MB/s and writing at 410 MB/s(using the Blackmagic Test Utility.) Also the best price of any of the better known Raids.
Herb Sevush
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I was upset that Greg Jones didn’t call me directly for this information, since I built his facility in Orlando.
I am delivering a RAID 5 array to him tomorrow FOR FREE, so he can play with it, and I am sure that he will post back his results. FREE is hard to negotiate with.
Bob Zelin
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Russell,
CalDigit offers a Dual 4 lane card, which will only occupy 1 PCIe expansion slot & let you connect 2 – HDPro units to (16 drives). No need for anything else.
http://www.caldigit.com/hdpro.asp
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[Russell Lasson] “Oh and one more question for you Walter, when you use two of the units, you need two cards in a computer unless you have a PCI-Express expansion box, right?
If you have two cards in a computer, does that interfere with a card like the Kona 3?”
Yep you need two cards. No clue on the Kona 3 aspect of it, this was all done as a test by ATTO at MacWorld as you can see in my blog.
This is something I would definitely love to test here though, maybe after NAB if our schedule allows, I’ll try to arrange a full blown text with Maxx and Atto to try this out in an editing environment.
Honestly, 500MB/s in RAID 5 off of one unit is faster than any speeds I’ve ever had and the unit has been as reliable as the old Medéa units I used to run. First time I’ve had a storage unit this reliable in a very long time.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Thanks for the info Walter!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT
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