A RAID Array to go with your shiny new Mac Pro Sir?

[Rick Lang]

[Frank Gothmann] “You’d get that with any decent 8x HBA as long as it’s sitting in an 8x slot. Even with only 8 6G drives an an Areca card in an 8x slot you’re getting beyond 1100 in Raid 6 mode.”

On another forum, someone as an aside without explanation emphatically p[osted, “Don’t buy a 6-bay array.” I had thought the Pegasus R6 might be a good match for the Mac Pro, but after your comment and that other post’s warning, I think this may be the rationale: a 6-bay array just can’t match the > 1 GB/s transfer speeds of a larger RAID array using 7200 rpm hard disks.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Craig Alan]

Bob,

I will be setting up an editing lab with Pegasus r4 raid enclosures (18 units) as the media drives. Do you have any suggestions for a security cage/enclosure to put them in to prevent drives from being removed and units stolen.

dimensions about: width 7.5″ depth 10 ” height 8″.

This is for a High School production program.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Camcorders: Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV30/40, Sony Z7U, VX2000, PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.