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  Pricing Raids

  Posted by Herb Sevush on January 17, 2008 at 4:25 pm

  I know this has been covered to death, but I’m about to spend REAL money, as opposed to the speculative kind, to buy a 6 Terrabyte eSATA raid.

  Before I continue let me qualify this by saying that I’m only interested in a single vendor solution, tech support is important to me, I’ll be formatting Raid 5, and it will be used in a MacPro system that needs to handle DVCPRO HD 720P30 using 4 source multi-cam clips.

  I’m looking at 3 options:

  1 – CalDigit HDPro – $8000 / 3 year warranty

  2 – Dulce Pro DQ – $7250 / 3.5 year warranty

  3 – Sonnet Fusion D800 – $6000 / 2 year warranty

  They all claim very high read/write rates, although what the actual rate will be with the raids 80 – 90% full and fragmented is a little hard to tell. Still, speed differences don’t seem significant. I have a Sonnet card now and I’m pleased with it, CalDigit has a well known name, Dulce less so.

  So basically I’m trying to figure out if there’s a reason to spend more money for either the Dulce or the CalDigit.

  Thanks.

  Herb Sevush
  Zebra Productions

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