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Media Drive Suggestions
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HA! I joined BAARF years ago! If you ever had a RAID-5 fail…
https://www.baarf.dk/BAARF/BAARF2.html
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There’s a lesson to be learned here. Buy from trusted brands, not companies who sometimes make drives. Cheap controllers are not an option.
I buy from Caldigit and Promise. That’s all they do and they do it well. Heck, we have an old 12 drive Caldigit SAS system still running here, never had an issue, replaced all the drives 4 years ago, but only because we needed more space.
Drives also matter, we only buy Hitachi or Toshiba drives because their low failure rates blow the competition away.
I have 5 arrays running at the moment, all RAID 5. Never lost a single bit. 🙂
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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Many thanks to everyone. The RAID thing can be confusing. Most other editors I know in this market seem to be happy with RAID 5. On other systems over the years I’ve used RAID 1.
I’ve narrowed it down to 12TB or 16TB, OWC or Promise. OWC being cheaper. Promise has a great rep.
Certainly willing to consider others.
If my 2 billion dollar lottery ticket comes in tonight…well … it won’t matter!!
John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 -
[John Watts] “If my 2 billion dollar lottery ticket comes in tonight…well … it won’t matter!!”
The hell with it, I’m buying a ticket too.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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A little update to all of this. First, thanks for taking precious time to respond.
Does anyone have an array or SSD brought in through the gigabit ethernet connection?
One of my clients is a larger computer system guy, when I told him I needed an array, he asked me why I wanted antiquated technology for media drive space?He’s wanting me to consider upgrading my system to 64gb ram and using the gigabit connection.
Would that work?Am curious if anyone does their media drive this way, as my client claims he can get me a “great deal” on a SSD solution. FYI, he’s not really familiar with specs specific to video editing, and since I’m an editor and not an I.T. guy, I have to get feedback and advice…
Thx.
John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 -
Gigabit connection? Wouldn’t that be much slower than Thunderbolt 2 and above? I may be wrong, but wouldn’t that run at the same hypothetical speed as Thunderbolt 1 & USB C?
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Gigabit actually sounds much faster than TB2, upon googling. Again, not a computer guy, so, asking for a friend?!?
Arrays seem like an old way of doing things, but, cost effective and proven. Just looking at options before the investment.
John Watts
Premiere Pro Version 12.1.2 Build 69
2017 iMac (Retina 5K 27 inch) 1TB SSD
4GHZ Intel Core i7
32GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6 -
[John Watts] “Gigabit actually sounds much faster than TB2,”
I’m confused how that could be. My understanding is:
Gigabit Ethernet = 1 Gbps
USB C & Thunderbolt = 10 Gbps
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