Best Raid 5 Solution

[Peter Mackay]

Get the Drobo for storing your projects, its too slow to edit from, and look at the products from CalDigit for the RAID5. I have built my own RAID systems for some time now, but the Caldigit systems are very good and cost no more that self built. They have a 4 drive box that is very reasonably priced as it comes with the RAID card and it can be increased to a 8 drives system by just adding another box. Don’t store your projects on the same RAID that you will use for your primary editing.

[Billy Cadge]

even with fw 800 the drobo is too slow to edit off of you think?

thanks for the caldigit recommendation.

for storing would you recommend raid 1 or 5

[Peter Mackay]

If you are editing SD, DV material it might be fast enough, but the Drobo is not intended as a Editing RAID system. As for storage I probably would not chose a RAID for that Individual external HD’s are cheap enough, so you can store an entire project on one drive and put it on the shelf until you need it

[Billy Cadge]

I am editing and saving hd content of p2 cards so having a harddrive for each project is a good idea but is there an external kind of bay of enclosure that i can just pop in a sata harddrive and pop it out when im done easily.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Billy Cadge] “I am editing and saving hd content of p2 cards so having a harddrive for each project is a good idea but is there an external kind of bay of enclosure that i can just pop in a sata harddrive and pop it out when im done easily.”

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[Peter Mackay]

Walters solution is a nice one, but if you want something more economical have a look at OWC ( Other World Computing) they have a dock that you just drop a drive into and remove it when done.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/NewerTech/Voyager/Hard_Drive_Dock

$89 and your done.

[Peter Dunphy]

Nice! Very handy indeed.

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2 x 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3, ATI Radeon HD 4870, ATTO ExpressSAS R380, Sonnet D800 Raid 5

[Walter Biscardi]

We had one of those Voyagers here for 2 days and I sent it back. I would not trust my drives in that thing and we had all sorts of power issues.

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[Billy Cadge]

thanks walter for that i will probably be going with that solution.

so you have had that for a while with no problems?

what hard drives do you recommend to be best

[Walter Biscardi]

[Billy Cadge] “thanks walter for that i will probably be going with that solution.

so you have had that for a while with no problems?

what hard drives do you recommend to be best”

Not a lick of trouble and we even share it on our network so any of our 6 workstations can read / write from / to it. WeibeTech is a great brand too, been around a while. For that particular unit, I just purchase the Western Digital Green 1TB drives, they work just fine.

For a RAID 5 array, we run only the Maxx Digital Evo series here. two of the 8TB units and one of their 16TB units shared via the Final Share SAN. Incredible speed and protection from them.

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