RAID FW800 vs SATA – Excellent Benchmarks at Barefeats

[Bret Williams]

No surprise there. The standard specs for SATA are much higher than FW800.

[Walter Biscardi]

I would take Fibre Channel over SATA at this time.

Striping two FW800 G-RAID’s together gave me almost 160mb/sec on a recent install I did.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[John Foley]

FiberChannel is great and way more expensive that a home grown SATA RAID setup

A four stripe SATA RAID can capture up to 200 MB/sec for the first 2/3’s of the drive package.

Sure software RAID 0 is not SAFE by any means but if you need to capture and edit at those speeds, you can choose a FC $10K setup or get 2.0 TB of RAID 0 for about $2500.

And IF a drive dies somewhere along the way, you surely must have saved the project, render files, etc to another drive anyway and you could use Log and Capture to recapture the necessary footage which would probably be smaller in scope by that time anyway.

Seagate drives offer a 5 year warranty and no manufacturer will pass that on to you.