Baby’s first RAID array?

[Bob Zelin]

you are at the mercy of the speed of the SATA drives. With only 4 drives, you will be lucky to get 700 MB/sec.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Kasey Gay]

Hey bob,

I’m swinging back through one last time. Your patience is appreciated.

So I had someone suggest THIS to me : https://www.popphoto.com/new-owc-drive-dock-allows-for-drive-swapping-during-big-photo-and-video-projects

OWC drive dock with 7200 SATA disks. I hit a friend up who tells me that he’s working off a similar setup, and after I asked him to run your Blackmagic tests, he’s telling me he’s getting 210 MB’s a sec transfer speed.

The drive dock and 2 SATA 7200’s is almost $500 and is only. equipping him with 200mb/s. Is there any sane reason why someone would go with that, rather than the Thunder Bay 4? It seems like old tech if you can 500-700 with the Thunderbay.

Thanks man.

[Greg Janza]

[Kasey Gay] “s there any sane reason why someone would go with that, rather than the Thunder Bay 4? “

no.

If you buy your own drives you can get OWC Thunderbay for around $700. Go to any major online computer reseller and buy four matching drives and then buy just the Thunderbay case from OWC.

Windows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | 64 gigs RAM | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 |Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with FreeFileSync

[Todd Perchert]

Only downside I see to it is that it is software raid. The speeds they talk about on their site are raid-0 only. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve tried using software raid, but it could take a big hit in performance to pull off raid-5. Unless someone has actually used one of these and can say different.
TC