External harddrive and Macbook Pro recommendations for editing?

[Rafael Amador]

[Ryan Brown] “Have you tried setting up all 4 drives in RAID 0(two units married together)? Probably don’t need the speed but curious if the speed would double. “
That would be interesting to try but I need to have the two HDs separated to have two copies of the EX-1 rushes on the field.

[Ryan Brown] “Overall it sounds like ESATA is a bit faster.”
Is really much faster.

[Ryan Brown] “With a drive spinning at 10K it might be even a bit faste”
The problem is that faster HDs need more power and also gets much hotter. With 5.400 in Raid 0 you avoid those problems. Also slower HDs last more time.

[Ryan Brown] “btw what settings did you use in AJA speed test?”
Yes, is what I use to test the speed.
What I recommend you is to rebuild the HDs directories as often as you can. After a couple of days copying and deleting media, the speed falls like a 25%. Run DiskWarrior and again 80/90MBps.
Cheers,
rafael

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[Ryan Brown]

rafael-

Thanks for the feedback!

I know what you mean about needing more power to run faster HD. In this case I’d be editing with those drives plugged in and would not worry about it. Also I believe the Raptors have a 5 year warranty when others are less(except for Seagate-but I have had about 4 bad ones in the say 40-50 I’ve bought over the last 4-5 years). Maybe that’s not bad.

Don-

I’ll have to try lower settings. I also run Premiere Pro CS4(Master Collection) so I’ll have to try it in there as well. Also it’s native in PPro. Not that it will help but with all the integration between apps. is a big reason I think I’ll cut this in PPro CS4. Also they are coming out with an update for a FCP Importer & OMF!

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.

[Ryan Brown]

Ok I just got my ESATA II adapter working. It’s some generic brand and cost me $29.99. I called to try and buy a diff. one and they said it’s now only $10 at my local Frys.

So what I ended up doing was I figured out the chipset and found some other manufactures sites drivers. I read there troubleshooting guide which led me to figure out I had the same chipset(probably any Express Card Sata II does).

So anyway it’s working now!

Report back with speed test!

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.

[Ryan Brown]

Ok I did a speed test and it basically avg. around 130 mb/s with two samsung 1TB drives raided in RAID 0 via the Express Card ESATA. Two Velociraptors was only about 10-15 mb/s faster. The Samsung was about $250 for two drives vs. around $600. So that wasn’t enough of a speed jump to spend the extra doe.

Ryan Brown
DowntownBrownEnt.