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sata raid for SD?
The Medea never worked properly, despite firmware revisions and atto updates and everything else updates up the wazoo etc. Dual 2 G5 latest tiger, FCP 5 etc. Decklink extreme. I get these little lines that look like analog dropouts maybe 6 or 7 per half hour, but there’s nothing analog in the chain. Only get that when the media is on the Medea. Perhaps it’s the ATTO card? I don’t know but I don’t have any more time to figure it out; been going round the track with this for weeks, no months. The staff is spending hours each week fixing dropouts.
Medea is telling me to send the drive in which I will but how am i supposed to get masters out the door without a drive? Gotta buy something. Looking at SATA raid, geez it’s half the cost of the Medea never mind the ATTO card (UL4D).
Anyone using SATA raid for SD with any success? Any gotchas? Any brand suggestions?
Thanks,
jason
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[jason levy] ” get these little lines that look like analog dropouts maybe 6 or 7 per half hour,” can’t say if it’s because of raid
but in case if you want to know about SATA RAID, well mine is working fine though it’s a bit of reverse engineering. I have two internal 250GB 16mb cache sata drives, configured as raid 0 (read and write is 90-110 MB/s) i’m using external drive d2 LaCie (extreme edition) for system and audio which is connected to Firewire800.
I know not it’s not a regular technique but hey it’s great for SD work and it’s easy on system resources.
cheers
vB -
Thanks for that useful info.
j.
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Hi Jason,
If you have installed the latest firmware and drivers for the ATTO UL4D, then it should be working fine as we use it here and it works perfectly. Medea are pretty responsive to disk array problems and they might have a firmware update or some other solution to your problem.
In regards to SATA disk arrays, there are a bunch of posts in this forum about successful configurations and a lot of people seem happy with the Sonnet SATA card. It’s got 4 internal and 4 external ports. A 4-disk SATA array is plenty for SD and you could even use a 2-disk array if you’re not using a lot of RT effects.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Thanks Luke,
I’ve been around the track with the Medea a few times.. I have the latest firmware etc. etc. etc. Not sure what is happening. Got to get on with life.
Thanks for the advice about the SATA. We are going to give that a try.
Jason
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Hi Jason,
Good luck and it would be great to know if the SATA or Medea solutions work for you.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design
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