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External Drive reliability-performance with FCP 5.0
My work is thinking about purchasing a new full FCP system, rather than an AVID
Adrenaline (mostly due to price) If budget can work, is it better
to buy the Apple Fibre Channel Disk Array for editing or purchase some 500gig G-Raids or the newer FW 1terrabyte drives? Any reliability issues with G-Raid?
Any storage suggestions. I’m not sure anything short of Fibre or at least
Ultra 320 SCCI drives would be fast enough.
We would be editing uncompressed SD using DVCPRO50, but within 18 months going
to HD- P2(panasonic) video at 100mbps.
Thanks,
Current System: Accom Affinity- 2 layers realtime w/separate Title Keyer
G4- 466 mhz, 2 X 480gig Media Drives striped RAID 0
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[1Videomilkman] “We would be editing uncompressed SD using DVCPRO50, but within 18 months going
to HD- P2(panasonic) video at 100mbps.”You’ve left out the SATA array option. Why??? SATA is much faster, much more reliable than firewire, and much cheaper than SCSI. A SATA array is certainly capable of handling DVCPro50 or DVCPro100. Apple BTW does not support SCSI any longer…
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Thanks David. We are trying to finalize equipment specs and pricing this week.
Read another post regarding positive comments on the SATA array system RSV2 I believe was the name.
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