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High Volume Storage/Editing Solution needed – Lacie S2S 2.5TB ???
—Power PC G5 Quad w/ PCI-Express
—FCP 5
—Currently have over 1TB on 5 daisychained firewire drives and have no space.
—Dealing w/ DV footage now and probably HDV soon.I’m looking to move to an inexpensive, high volume storage solution that takes advantage of the newest/fastest/most reliable technology possible (while keeping costs low).
I was recommended the LaCie S2S Biggest w/ 2.5TB, PCI-Express, SATA II ($2800). I would probably just set it to RAID 0 b/c I will need much of the space, and not so much the redundancy (btw, I don’t have experience w/ RAID). Does anyone have experience w/ this unit or can you give advice based on systems you are familiar with. Any other systems to recommend? Any forseeable problems?
Someone also mentioned daisychaining new 500GB SATA II drives from LaCie and just buying a PCI-Express card. This option is cheaper, but still relies on separate drives and I don’t know how inconvenient it is (or even possible) to raid these drives using software built into OSX. I like the idea of having a single, integrated, self-contained unit like the S2S above.
Thanks for your input!
Steve & Jake -
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LaCie isn’t a drive manufacturer, but rather an enclosure manufacturer.
I have found great reviews on these two products:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusion500p.html
https://www.wiebetech.com/products/silversata.php SILVER SATA V
Both are SATA Raids that use a Port Multiplier connection. As for hard drives, look to Hitachi and Seagate and their 500GB models.
Shane
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I went to Fry’s yesterday and bought a bunch of 750gig Seagate SATA drives on sale for $309. apiece. That’s less than 50 cents/gig!!!
Not suggesting that this is your best solution, but it’s sure nice to have that big of a bucket inside your G-5 before you even need to think about externals.
Mark
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