Is Revival limited to a 1TB raid hard drive?

[Gary Adams]

Hello Henry. This is an interesting question which I don’t exactly know the answer at the moment. If you give me a day or so, I can try to figure it out. I’m probably the one that wrote that but your assesment may be correct. There could be systems already running in this configuration that I am not aware.

Regards, Gary Adams

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

I did test configuring a raw disk on Revival and successfully initialized a 2TB disk. Since that manual text was written long ago (by me), it was probably talking about some of the drive configurations used at the time.

I should add a minor word of caution here. The RAW file system has some benefits, however, is limited in performance and reliability due to the nature of the raw devices. This is why we recommend the Open File System using StorNext on a RAID5 or better system. Creating a huge RAW file system has the potential of losing a huge amount of data when one disk fails.

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Henry Borchers]

Thanks for all the help.

An updated manual would be much appreciated. Overall it’s very well written but I found a handful of areas that were either outdated or written in error.

Also, while the manual is good as an overall reference, it is rather challenging to learn from it as a beginner. I don’t know what the best way of approaching this is. If it means adding a tutorial chapter to the manual that walks you through the entire workflow or if it means producing video tutorials, I don’t know. I do know that, judging from the streamlined controls and the powerful tools, the learning curve should be much less than it is.

In any case, an updated manual would be much appreciated.
Thanks again