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need advice w/ new video drive
Need to upgrade my video drive on my G5 to a 1 TB drive. Prior to now had always bought Western Digital RE2 (server class) drives b/c they’re supposed to be the most reliable and I once lost my 1st three movies from a hard drive failure.
The issue is the terabyte WD drive is apparently much slower than the generally accepted fastest terabyte drive, the Samsung F1. Barefeats ran some tests here:https://barefeats.com/harper14.html
I mostly edit DV25 and DVCPro HD. So I was wondering:
1) If the speed difference would make much difference for my work
2) If Samsung is generally considered a safe and reliable brand. (I’ve looked all over for reliability test but found nothing)Thanks ahead of time for any help!
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You don’t get speed from a single drive, you get speed from an array of drives. You protect your media by running in RAID 3 or RAID 5 so when you do have a drive failure (all drives fail eventually) you don’t lose your project.
Our MaxxDigital EVO HD arrays have Hitatchi 1TB drives in them, 8 per array.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Thank you very much for your response. So, it sounds like the speed in one drive is not that big a deal. Barefeats likes to talk about the ultimate boot drive, but this isn’t for that purpose so I’m thinking differences here w/ one drive over another aren’t significant.
I understand what you mean about RAIDs. Would love to get a RAID 5 and priced an internal one out from Maxupgrades.com. It just seemed a bit silly to spend around $600 for an internal RAID (vs $200 for just a 1TB drive) when I’ll probably upgrade my G5 in a year or so.
What I was wondering about was whether Samsung had a good reputation, especially for reliability. Used to buy Maxtor drives b/c I read they were the fastest then had a couple die on me. As I won’t have a RAID to protect me and the speed won’t make much difference, this is my primary concern. -
[Samuel Frazier] “Would love to get a RAID 5 and priced an internal one out from Maxupgrades.com. It just seemed a bit silly to spend around $600 for an internal RAID (vs $200 for just a 1TB drive) when I’ll probably upgrade my G5 in a year or so.”
This is why you purchase an external array. I never use or recommend internal RAID setups. We only use external partially for this very reason. You can connect them to any machine. Our LaCie S2S arrays have been used on 4 different Macs over the past three years. So you invest in a good high quality array today and you can still use it next year when you upgrade.
I know there are a lot of folks on here who love internal arrays, but we don’t use them.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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