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Editing from External PCIe RAID Array
Anyone have experience using an External PCIe RAID Array to store source footage from projects? Does the PCIe interface allow transfer speeds quick enough to edit from or does the source footage still need to be imported to the internal hard drive?
Thanks!
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No problem, it shows no difference to internal raid arrays in terms of speed. The only difference is that the SATA cables are used externally, not inside the case.
Harm Millaard
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Good info, Thanks!
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Have you selected or tried any hardware yet? I’m currently spec’ing an external RAID array for direct-to-disk capture and editing. I plan to use a DeckLink HD Extreme 2 capture card, RocketRAID 2314 PCIe controller, and an Addonics storage tower rack with four 3.0 gbps SATA II hard drives. Can anyone comment as to whether this would be a good set-up? Where’s the bottleneck in this system? (I’m guessing it’s the number of data lanes between the motherboard and the PCIe card.)
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