Decent RAID-5 for 1080i with FCP?

[Lloyd Amborn]

Please contact me for info on Maxx Digital EVO HD.
rona4kingston@aol.com

[Scott Davis]

Can you rack mount the EVO HD?

Scott Davis

[Jon Schilling]

Just my 2 cents.

The HDPro is a very solid product & everyone that has used & or bought one will back me up on this. The product was used recently to complete an edit on a new movie cut in FCP http://www.5-25-77.com this of course is just 1 example of the many happy users of this great product. The HDPro is as plug & play as you can get with nary a support issue we haven’t easily helped out on thus far. We also offer a 30 day money back guarantee & we also have a rack-mount form factor product.

Oh & most importantly, single vendor support. We use our own RAID card, which is in the product, not in your MacPro. This enables you to keep excessive HEAT outside of your MacPro & also use our eLane-1ex, ExpressCard 34 card in your MacBook Pro, with speeds of 195MB/s should you so desire.

Thanks for letting me point this out.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
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[John Gyldstrand]

Jimmy contact me privately about an cost effective raid 5 solution at johnnieg0064@yahoo.com

[Lloyd Amborn]

The Evo can be set on its side or it can come as a rack mount

[Eric Grush]

Just to throw another voice into the mix. I was searching for a low cost 4:2:2 uncompressed set-up and looked at Dulce and G-Speed and CalDigit. I ended up with 7Tb of rack-mounted Maxx-Digital SATA RAID (using a CAl-Digit card) on my old G5 for less than any other brand. Oh, and it’s not RAID 5 or RAID 3, just a straight clone on two RAIDs. I get over 400 mbps on each setup and even one fails I can just copy the missing info over. So far I have run 3 features through them without error. They even came in and set the whole thing up.

I thought that have a RAID 5 solution would be the best thing for me, but this seems to have been my best option.

[Jeremy Newmark]

Just to throw in another view, we’ve got an 8TB Dulce ProDQ and it’s been solid since day 1. We’re running it in Raid 3 and we get read and write speeds close to 600MB/sec. In Raid 0 it’s well over 600MB/sec. The thing screams, what surprised me most when we first got it, is how small it is. Compared to our old Huge 320RX, it’s physically about half the size, but twice the size in capacity and speed. I think this thread just shows that there are so many good solutions out there today and if you go with any of the solutions mentioned, you really can’t go wrong. Just my 2 cents.

best regards,
jeremy

[Jared Picune]

Awesome thread, lots of good info.

I just wanted to add that I’ve got a 4TB HDPro to replace my older Xserve RAID. Love the thing, solid as a rock and really fast.

But I was at Macworld and CalDigit has a new RAID card that does RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6. Works with the 4 internal drives and then you can add up to 12 drives with external boxes, 4 at a time. I really like it because you can start small and expand when you need to. The cards only $549, so you should take a look at it.

Jared Picune
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG
Geeky Mac | FCP Tips & Tricks

[Dan Yu]

Another vote for Caldigit’s HDPro, great solution, I’m happy with it.
BTW, they just released a new product named HDOne at Macworld 2008. It seems like another great choice for a RAID 5 storage RAID solution.
The size is small and it’s a real hardware RAID. Here is a short video for you to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4WjVJIJqdI
My voice, fyi.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Cheers for all the info guys.

Another quick one – can you stripe the 4 internal HDDs of the new MacPro in RAID-5 so it’s fast enough to capture/playout 1 stream of 1080i? I’m just thinking about for our VFX/encoding stations.

Only thing is, I’d need to use the 2nd optical drive space for the system drive…can you still do that with the new mac?

Cheers

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