FW 800 and Uncompressed 8-Bit

[Richard Harrington]

Several issues at play

1. Dedicated FW 800 card.. not system Bus
2. Striped Drive Array liek G-Raid or Big Disk Extreme
3. How Full Drive is

But yes. I have done it… not a recommended configuration though

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Shane Ross]

I too have done it, with a couple G-Raids. But they differ from other FW800 drives in that they are 2 hardware raided drives in one enclosure, so they get 85MB/s…great for uncompressed 8-bit. One drive FW800 drives might not cut it.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Tom Meegan]

I used two G-RAID 500s striped together for an 8-bit project. The programs aired on SPEED Channel. Worked well, both for capturing and editing.

If you go with this configuration, and you have real deadlines, I highly recommend a back-up of your captured media to another FW800 disk or disks at the end of each edit session. Although G-Raids are very reliable, you only have to lose one of the enclosed drives to lose everything – that is the nature of RAID 0.

Sure, you could go back and re-capture, but many projects can’t afford that loss of time.

The peace of mind was worth the time and expense.

Another option would be the RAID 3 solution from G-Tech or the RAID 5 solution from LaCie.

It depends on your and/or the project’s budget and risk tolerance.

Tom