Hard Drive brand

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “When rendering, the G5s are louder than any drive enclousre I’ve used.”

That’s interesting. how warm is your machine room? Our G5’s don’t change in terms of noise just because they’re rendering. In fact I’ve not heard of that before.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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[Sean Oneil]

[walter biscardi] “That’s interesting. how warm is your machine room? Our G5’s don’t change in terms of noise just because they’re rendering. In fact I’ve not heard of that before”

You haven’t??? All our machines do that. The fans speed up when it the CPU is under heavy load. That’s one of the major features when the G5 first came out. The room is quite cool.

[Sean Oneil]

[Uli Plank] “Could you please tell me which firmware version you have?”

I have v1.05. No problems.

You know what, now that I think about it, when I first got them a while back, I did have issues with some Maxtor drives (these drives had issues on other controllers as well). That prompted me to update the firmware. I was able to do it using regular PCI slots in a PC. Even though the card is PCI-X, it will still work in a regular PCI slot for the update.

Right now we’re using Western Digital drives that have been tested by them and I’ve never had a problem.

[Uli Plank]

Hi Sean,

great info! We still have 1.04 and didn’t consider it could be done in a PCI slot, thank you.

We are using Samsungs (the new ones with 16 MB cache) and had no problems with them in any other setup. There must be more than 30 of them running in our labs by now. Low heat, low noise, none broke until now (knock on wood). I’ve steered away from Maxtor a long time ago after bad experiences. But what can one say, even a Seagate Barracuda (less than two years old) died on me last week.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Tom Brooks]

Sean,
If you’re still getting feedback on this thread, I’m building something similar to this. I would like to be able to compare notes with you on your experience. My Enhancebox E8-ML enclosure is on order, so the parts should be here soon and I need to get it built. Could you email me? tom at image-stream dot com. Thanks.
-Tom
Highpoint RR 2322
Enhancebox E8-ML (multilane connections)
Highpoint cables
8-Seagate ST3750640AS drives

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[Jon Schilling]

The product you mentioned uses a software RAID card.

See this short video on the difference between hardware & software RAID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4WjVJIJqdI

We just want to educate people on the difference between hardware & software RAID. Software RAIDs use a lot of your CPU’s resources.

CalDigit products are ALL hardware RAID, with single vendor support.

We have 1 product now, the HDPro, that has a 30 day money back guarantee https://www.caldigit.com/HDPro.asp & 3 more RAID 5 products to follow. The HDOne, (lower cost cool swap HDPro cousin), the CalDigit RAID card featuring hardware RAID 0,1,5,6 & JBOD, and our HDElement a 4 bay enclosure that can be scaled up for use with our RAID card, more information to follow on these products on our website soon. All 3 products are under $3K as complete products…….cards & chassis w/drives.

CalDigit, we take the hassle out of a do it yourself scenario, with single vendor support all at a reasonable cost.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
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[Ted Griffis]

When will these new products be available? I am in the immediate market for a RAID 5 array and I would like to consider these as I price things out.

If you have any other info I’d appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ted

[Jon Schilling]

Ted,

We will be shipping the CalDigit 100% hardware RAID card, the HDElement, (4 bay RAID 0,1,5,6 & JBOD populated chassis for use with the CalDigit RAID card) & our new HDOne direct connect product in a month. Creative Cow will have the press releases on these products in the “News” section posted shortly.

Thanks.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon