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FCP and the Drives You Use
What drives are considered “Industry Standard” for using Final Cut Pro? I’ve been using XServe/RAID drives for almost three years. We have the full 14 module compliment that totals 2.7TB of space which was the most available when we received them in December 2004. Last week without any warning what so ever, the entire XServe/RAID setup crashed and the only thing the experts tell us that can be done is to send them off to a data recovery company. Pleas understand that sufficient backups were kept, but the issue is this. The drives were less than three years old and encountered a catastrophic failure that we don’t wish to repeat for obvious reasons. Is there a better system of drives to go with for running FCP 6.0 on an Apple platform? The real joke is that the top RAID guy at Apple told us that the drives are fine!! We can’t recover any of the data ourselves, but if we choose to, we can reinitialize the modules and they’ll work like new! Anyone else out there with similar experience? BTW, we had just updated to the whole FCP 6.0 Studio 2 set of software.
Mark LoPresti, Buffalo New York
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I have been testing the new Sonnet Fusion D800Raid setup that uses an ATTO SAS raid card and connects to the Raid via infiniband. It has 8 drives in the unit and I am running Raid4 with 6TB of space (comes out to just over 4TBs formatted). I am getting read.write speed of over 450MBsec in Raid4. It blows me away how fast these are and they’re protected. If one drive goes down, you keep working. The raid comes with the ATTO card and lists for about $7,000. It’s a great deal for the amount of speed, space and , plus it employs the use of an ATTO card which I know, like and trust.
Not sure if they are ‘industry standard’ as they are brand new, but I’d wager that they will become extremely popular.
Jeremy
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