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FCP Studio 2 and Caldigit Drives Configuration
We just received the 2.5 TB system (S2VR) and are hooking this up to a new G5 Dual 3ghz Intel Mac with 4gbRam with FCP 6.0. Can you tell me the best way to hook this up with the best performance?
When using the “Protected mode” or mirrored, it only shows that we have 2 x 465. GB of
usuable storage available and shows that our 5th physical drive in the case is a spare and
is “unformatted”. Can we go to the “Performance” tab, and have virtually all of the 2.3 TB
available? I know this would be like RAID 0 and would be “unprotected”, but would this
give more throughput and have these drives been very reliable? We’re unsure how to best
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The CalDigit S2VR line…Duo and HD…have 3 settings. Protected, which is Raid 1, meaning that your drive storage is cut in half, and so is your performance. Raid 1 mirror would not use the 5th drive for this, as there is nothing to mirror it too…it is the 5th wheel. I’d vote against this setting.
PERFORMANCE is RAID 0, meaning all the drives are striped as one for fast read.write speeds. There is NO protection in Raid 0…as you know.
The third option is JBOD, which basically has all the drives show up as individual drives. You can use them individually, or raid them with the Apple Disk Utility as Raid 0.
This unit DOES NOT offer performance with protection…which is what RAID 5 offers. These units do not do Raid 5. The HD Pro does. Nope, your best bet..which is something Walter and I do and both HIGHLY recommend, is to set the unit up RAID 0, to get the best performance, then buy a firewire drive or two to backup your footage to. He uses the Lacie 2TB model…I have a few G-Raids and a home made RAID tower. OWC has a few good drives to use. This way you have performance AND protection…albeit manual protection. But doing that has saved me and Walter more than once.
Shane
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