FCP 5.0 Multiclip Edit (10 Angles) Needed Resources?

[Zman]

I would look into the g tech drives, I have a few 320’s and they are amazing, lacie drive have had many troubles and there not rated for video this I was told from a lacie tech person when I mailed a set of new drives to them that crapped out after 1 week. But yes a raid or a scsi set up will work much better.

[Dudeguy37]

Hey Jason-
My first thought when I saw your post was to re-compress all of the media into a low bandwith format like OfflineRT. Can’t say I’ve done it myself on a multicam cut, but it seems like it should work. Let me know how that works.
Peace,

-Harry

[Mrvideo]

10 streams at 3.6 MB/sec is still over 40 MB/sec. NO firewire drive is going to be rock solid with that data stream.

If you want to do a first class but cheap RAID; try this

Get the SwiftData 200 from http://www.transintl.com that allows you to add up to 4 internal SATA drives in your G5. Populate this with whatever SATA drives you want as a total volume as a RAID and use Disk Utility to build a RAID 0 with up to 4 stripes as each stripe will get you 50 MB/sec of bandwidth.

If you would like security with that, get 4 more drives and use the 4 external ports on the Sonnett card to double the size of the volumes but use either Tiger Disk Utility or purchase SoftRAID 3.2 that will allow you to set up a RAID 1+0 which is the fastest RAID (0) and a copy RAID (1)

With 400 GB SATA drives that would get you over one terabyte of data at near 200 MB/sec and security of a copy on the fly.

People will tell you. yeah, but after the first 2/3rd of the drives, the rate slows to half, but for that you just need to manage the data streams appropriately.

[Jason Brantley]

So you achieve RAID 0+1, by using the Sonnet Controller for RAID 0, and either Disk Utility or SoftRAID to add RAID 1 mirroring correct? I couldn’t find any data that SoftRAID alone could do RAID 0+1.

I’ve been thinking about trying to put together one of these, with maybe up to 8 drives.
https://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/hotswapsatakits.php

The real bummer is that don’t seem to have any PCI controllers for Mac yet that can handle RAID 3/RAID XL. Having to double to the number of drives for redundancy is such a waste IMO.

Thanks for the link to the SwiftData 200, it definately may be an option as well.

JB

Jason Brantley
Fatbelly Productions
http://www.fatbellyproductions.com

[Michael Horton]

If you are looking into building your own Sata Raid then read this

https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_storage_soltz.html

Michael Horton
lafcpug
https://www.lafcpug.org