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Firewire 800 Raid
I am using FCP 5 working with all formats in HD(HD cam, HDV, DVCPro-HD etc.) I am looking for a Firewire 800 Raid drive.I have looked for the minimum drive speed Requirments(Read & Write) and had no luck. Any Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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Hello,
Your I/O with Firewire 800 is 800 megabits/s, this mean around 100MB/s if your raid is in stripping mode. With the F800 from LaCie, you can have 1TB or 1.6TB. Don’t forget that more you fill your drive and more your bandwidth decrease.
An other important point is your number of srteam.
If for example, you need 10MB/s of bandwidth, it’s just for you first video track. If you have 2 video track, your orginal 10MB/s will become 20MB/s…
If you use a firewire raid, buy a PCI firewire 800 card to put you raid in a separate bus. If not, the bandwidth of the firewire bus is divided.Before to consider which can of raid you have to buy, analyze which kind of editing you will do. The kind of source, DVCPROHD, DV, DVCPRO50… the kind of capture, DV or via card like Decklink and other, the number of video stream you expect to put on your timeline.
Regards,
Martial -
Hi,
Use a SATA RAID (either internal or external) instead of FW800 .
Cheaper, more reliable and probably faster than FW 800.
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You can read my reviews on both LaCie and G-RAID products to see some benchmarks on speed. Both products are good and will easily cut all flavors of DV / DVCPro including HD. Some of the products will run 8bit and even 10bit uncompressed SD as well.
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