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  FCP with Avid Unity

  Posted by Mike Kahn on October 24, 2008 at 5:59 pm

  I have a client who’s editing a feature film using FCP and writing to an Avid Unity for video capture and render. Currently, the Unity is set up so that FCP views each drive as separate. They have been complaining of the program being sluggish and I believe that this is the reason. I think that the drive’s should be RAIDed together so that FCP views them as one drive rather then the current 12. Doing my research on here, I believe I have confirmed that.

  The client has asked for additional storage space to be installed over the weekend and I suggested that this space be installed as a RAID 0. The question that was asked to me was if FCP has any restrictions as to how large a RAID can be, more specifically an Avid Unity RAID. I know in past projects I’ve worked on, that the XSAN can be as large or small as a company wants and FCP has never had a problem. Does anyone out there know of any issues that may be had with the Unity being a RAID 0?

  Thanks

  Mike

  Walter Biscardi replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Biscardi

  October 24, 2008 at 6:17 pm

  No issues with RAID size that I’m aware of. We run two 8TB RAID’s now and will soon be striping them together as one large 16TB RAID.

  Keep in mind RAID 0 means zero protection. Any issues with any of the drives in RAID and you lose all your data. We run RAID 5 arrays here (MaxxDigital EVO HD) and get 500MB/s.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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