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New Harddrive for Editing HD
Hi All,
This will hopefully be my last post on upgrading my set up for a while. I am in the process of upgrading to an HD camera and will most likely be using AVCHD which between the original media and the transcoded Pro-Res files I’ve calculated to about 70 GB/ hour – about 1 GB per minute plus the 11 GB of storage per hour at 1080i. Can anybody confirm this?
More importantly I am looking to add one more internal hard drive to edit off of. Right now I have a 700 GB primary OS drive and a 1 TB where all of my media and render files are stored on as a scratch disk. I was looking at a 2 TB 7200 RPM drive and want to know if I’m setting myself up for trouble? RAID currently isn’t really an option as we are dropping a lot of money on other equipment and I don’t think I can get another $1000 to get a RAID system.
Thank you in advance for your input.
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First off what type of system are you editing on, knowing what connections you have available makes all the difference when recommending hard drives.
[Mark Laslo] “I am looking to add one more internal hard drive to edit off of”
You say you want internal does this mean you have a MacPro.
[Mark Laslo] “I don’t think I can get another $1000 to get a RAID system”
You don’t necessarily have to spend that much. If you do have a MacPro your best option would be to leave your system drive in slot one and a 1TB drive in each of the 3 other bays and then use disk utility to raid those 3 together. You would then have a 3TB raid for 300 or less.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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You can get the Caldigit VR with two 1 TB drives for 399.00 at their web site. I have this setup and it works great. I have it set up as a RAID 1 so it mirrors all data. Check caldigit.com and no I don’t work for them.
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[Zane Barker] “use disk utility to raid those 3 together. “
In what cases would you want to use a Mac RAID card and when would you do a RAID as you are describing?
I’ve always wondered why you would want to use a RAID card.
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First off I have to say that finding Creativecow.net was one of the best finds in awhile. As a new member I really appreciate the community sense here – none of the typical web forum sarcastic and degrading answers, just honest people lending a hand.
Zane – Sorry I forgot to mention. I am using a Mac pro with two open hard drive slots. I like the idea of getting 3 TB of internal space though I do already have one drive populated (besides the primary drive) but I think I have enough disk space to migrate. What is the benefit of RAID’ing these three drives together besides having one uniform space. Would you recommend setting it up as a RAID 5 solution (striping, correct?) or just leave it to make one big drive?
I have already learned that progressive seems to be the way to go. What is the file size of 1080/30p (since the AG-HMC150 doesn’t support 60p, does anything?)
Ron – Thanks for the recommendation to Caldigit. Do you have this connected via firewire or eSATA. If firewire do you work with ProRes 422 and how many streams to you get. Right now I’m only expecting to have to work with 1 or 2 (depending on how final cut pro handles 2 video tracks with the second tracks video fully covering the first track. I looked at the specs and the thing seems pretty powerful. If it works well on firewire I may go for the 4 TB version if at all possible just to not have to purchase new drive space for another year or so (hopefully).
Cheers,
Mark -
[Jason Brown] “In what cases would you want to use a Mac RAID card and when would you do a RAID as you are describing?”
If you’re referring to Apple’s RAID card — never. It’s a disappointment.
If you’re referring to third-party RAID cards, you might use one if you wanted a RAID level other 0 or 1, for both performance and redundancy.
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I have mine set up with eSATA and run 3 to 4 video tracks from it on a 2008 MacBook Pro. I have not tried the other connections.
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[Zane Barker] “You would then have a 3TB raid for 300 or less”
2 tb HD at Fry’s for $109 each.
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[Mark Laslo] “I have already learned that progressive seems to be the way to go. What is the file size of 1080/30p (since the AG-HMC150 doesn’t support 60p, does anything?)”
Who told you this? Progressive for 720 ONLY. If you want to shoot 1080, you want to work with 1080/60i.
There are a few apps (iphone) that will calculate your file sizes.
https://www.aja.com/products/software/Steve Eisen
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Hi Zane,
I am interested in doing a RAID setup inside of my Mac Pro. Would this idea work with two 2 TB drives and a 1 TB drive for a total of 5 TB of space or is working with a 2 TB drive too big? Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Mark
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[Mark Laslo] “Would this idea work with two 2 TB drives and a 1 TB drive for a total of 5 TB of space”
Nope all the drives in the raid need the be the same size. More specifically same make and model.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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