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    10-bit uncompressed HD

    Posted by Aaron Nowakowski on May 6, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    I am upgrading storage on two Avid Edit Bays (Nitris MC 5.5). I am looking at the G-Speed ES Pro 4TB 4 drive RAID 5 solution (https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-speed-es-pro.cfm). I want to make sure that our editors can handle 10-bit uncompressed HD material with this storage. Does anyone have any expereicne with G-Tech and Avid? From what I can gather online the 4TB tower should playback 10-bit uncompressed HD at 1 stream in realtime, however I wanted to see if anyone had real world experience with this.

    Thanks!

    Aaron Nowakowski replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Kammes

    May 8, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Yes, it does work. G-Tech is a good choice.

    You don’t mention your frame size and frame rate, or if you’re YUV or RGB but at 1080i / 29.97 10bit RGB you should only be at about 250MB/s, which falls in spec.

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  • Aaron Nowakowski

    May 9, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Thank you Michael. Frame size would be 1080i and 1080P both 29.97 and 23.97 most likely single stream. I could bump up to an 8tb RAID 5 for the read/write speed, however that is way more space than we will need.

    Thanks again for your assistance!

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