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storage
I have been checking out a lot of different storage systems:
Medea
Wiebetech
FirmtekI have come to the conclusion that a case
with a bunch of drives would be my best move really with esata.
Without getting into all the details of what I’ll be doing it blows down to space and speed (compressing, exporting, saving projects, creating reference files) all to be down in finalcut pro.
I am for working with mainly DV, but I will be going DVCPROHD come 3rd quarter so I will need something that can last.I saw this:
https://tinyurl.com/3ygfznI wanted to know what the pro’s think of this item.
At least I can use it for the time being… What are some pros and cons of network storage (using gigabit that is)
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Firewire 800 or Sata box is what you want.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
The Maxtor you showed is a network drive over ethernet, suitable for backup only, not for video use.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Firmtek is great I own 2-bays and 4-bay enclosure (see the review at AMUG https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/2eEN4/.
There are newer SATA enclosures that use newer advanced controller cards that require just one cable for all drives in the box. Check out the Sonnet site for theirs and read all the reveiws on Barefeets and AMUG.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
There’s also those Dulce systems that are now being advertised on the Cow. They look interesting and have lots of RAID protection options. They seem to be offered at a pretty decent price as well.
Jeremy
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I don’t know Jeremy, the Dulce site seems to brag about 1.6TB for
$2899… I could put together a Firmtek 4-bay enclosure with 4TB for about $2000. That’s quite a difference…David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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[David Roth Weiss] “I could put together a Firmtek 4-bay enclosure with 4TB for about $2000.”
Ya, I know, but does it have raid 1,3,5 & 6? A similar fibre setup with that amount of space and raid protection would run you twice the cost and then you have to buy the HBA.
Know what I mean?
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[JeremyG] “Ya, I know, but does it have raid 1,3,5 & 6?”
Oh, I didn’t see that part. That does raise the bar.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles -
Check out recent posting on AJA and FCP site on 3rd of April.
8 drive solution from RentaRaid in UK, 4TB at Raid 5, upto 500MB/s
and very quiet.I paid -
LaCie S2S series of SATA arrays.
CalDigit S2VR Duo SATA
LaCie 2TB FW800 Too Big
All of these will work easily for DV and DVCPro HD. All run in RAID 1 or 0 so very little protection so you’ll want a backup drive.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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