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Hardware recommendations–eSATA drives? RAID? cards?
Hi, All,
I’m coming on board an HD project as an assistant editor–this is my first foray into HD. It’s already been logged & captured on 2 Gtech drives (one configured RAID0, one RAID5) and there’s just about 8TB of material in total.
In order to migrate the project to my system, I’ll need to invest in some hardware & I wanted to get some feedback from the CC Community on what might be best for the task. I’ll need to use external drives because there are other projects that shouldn’t be moved on my internal drives.
Here’s the info on the current system:
Running OS 10.5.8
2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xenon
8GB Ram
FCP 6.0.6Should I get an eSATA card and external drives? What brands/models are best? Or can I get away with Firewire 800 drives? I’m going to have to do this in duplicate, as I also need to upgrade the editor’s system (which is identical to my own) so I need to think about what would be cost effective as well as functional.
On a related note, would it be wise to upgrade to FCP7 at this juncture? I know that the rule of thumb is never to upgrade mid-project, but I know there were issues with scrubbing through audio when working in HD in 6.06 that have been addressed in 7. Since we’re migrating the project anyway, I thought we might be able to get away with an upgrade without much more trouble. What do you think?
Many thanks for your help!
Peace & respect,
Joy E. Reed
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We run all SAS/SATA RAIDs from Maxx Digital. If you have 8TB of material then you’ll want about 16TB of storage space to allow for all your renders and any other media you’ll create. Look at their EVO line of RAIDs that all come with the SAS card.
The question about FCP 7 has everything to do with whom you’re working with. If they have 7, then yes you need it. If they are running 6, then stay there.
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