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Decklink HD Pro card and storage
I’m in the middle of upgrading to a G5 and hoping to buy the HD Pro card and just want to check with everyone and find out what kind of storage everyone is using.
I have a 90 mininute HDCAM feature that I want to uprez on my own system but want to make sure I have enough storage. Which one do you guys use or prefer? I have a Huge System 320R but it’s only about 900Gigs. How much do I need to digitize HDCAM 4:2:2 for 90 mins? I prefer to buy a new system or can I just buy the removable drives and put them in to redig on my huge system drive array?
Anyone know how much a new drive array is or where I can get a good deal on one?
Any advice is appreciated.
Steve
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I’m using an SATA raid with my HD Pro card. It’s works great for me. I’m using it with 10 bit 720p which runs around 58MB/sec. I have two 4 drive arrays that run from 150 to 250MB/sec depending on how full they are. It’s about 3TB total. I have an 8 drive hot swap tower that I got from Macgurus. It has 400GB seagate 7200.8 drives. And runs to a Sonnet 8 port card. The only draw backs are having 8 cables (which isn’t all that inconvenient), and that the Sonnet card’s ports are too recessed in the PCI slot. It’s hard to get a good connection. Then I run them with Softraid.
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