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RAID speed comparison for Digital Cinema DIT work
Hi guys,
New to this forum as a member, but have been browsing topics for many years!
I wonder if anyone can offer some advice…?
I am working in house for a company producing videos – up until now on tape based cameras and DSLRs, but now moving into shooting on Red One/MX, Epic, Arri Alexa etc.
I have in place an 8-core Mac Pro with a lot of RAM, decent monitors etc. I have been using a Red Rocket to play back and transcode – although this is rented currently so we will be purchasing our own card.
I have also been backing up to three eSata drives (mainly GTechs) – one as my master backup, two as ‘client drives’.
Now I think we should be going down the route of RAID – and specifically an external, RAID-5 level rackmount system.
It seems that mini-SAS is quite prevalent, and I’ve seen a number of setups which use this connector;
JMR Bluestor 16 bay 16TB – quite expensive, but as far as I can see a very fast option
Sonnet Fusion R800 8 bay 16TB – less money, but read/write figures a bit less
Proavio S8MS 8 bay 16TB – again at a lower pricepoint than the JMR – but can’t really make out the read/write figures in RAID 5 for this…What I’m saying is that I’m confused. As much as I can decipher, (obviously) the more you spend the faster the setup…
But how much difference will this make to me on set? If I need to backup to a RAID, then copy to 2x eSata drives, then transcode with the Red Rocket…am I going to struggle with using a Sonnet (for example) compared with something like the JMR?
Or, in anyone’s experience, is an 8bay 16TB miniSAS RAID 5 array easily enough to handle a standard Red shoot (backups/transcoding)?
Sorry about the length of this post! Any help whatsoever would be appreciated…
Simon
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1 Reply
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Simon,
You’re welcome to email us for the benchmark speeds on the S8MS (my email is in my tag). We now have a new product, the 16 bay rack-mount, IS316JS (Introduced at NAB)https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/362/11 which is mini-SAS (expandable to 144TB) at 1200 MB/s.
Jonathan Schilling
Vertical Sales Manager
Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Email: jon@proavio.comSee our forum: https://forums.creativecow.net/proavio
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