Storage and video card solutions

[John Foley]

There are other reputable, knowledgable and professional resellers than the one on the west coast who specialize in Final Cut Studio hardware and software.

http://www.thefinalcutstore.com

[Tim Allison]

Please listen to Shane on this. We use G-Raids at our shop. They can only handle one stream of 10-bit uncompressed SD material, but do you even use that codec? The G-Raids work great on 8-bit uncompressed, and will also work great with DVCProHD.

The best part of all of this is that a 640 gig G-Raid will only cost you around $500. You can get 1 TB for around $700. A G-Raid should also easily handle ProRes-422. You are talking about spending thousands for SCSI or Fibre Channel raids. Why not spend $500 instead?

I am only talking about G-Raids because that is what I am familiar with. But trust me….a good Firewire 800 drive, whether that drive is from G-Tech, LaCie, or whoever, will meet your present needs.

[Andrew Kimery]

[b]What I am trying to do is have redundant backup and increase system performance, is this a good solution?[/b]

Just to split hairs here, “redundancy” and “backup” aren’t the same thing. For example, running a mirrored RAID gives you redundancy (if a drive fails that’s okay because it has a “twin”). Copying all your media onto an external HDD at the end of the day and taking that HDD home w/you gives you a back-up (if a power surge fries your computer + RAID that’s okay because all your files are on the back-up HDD w/you at the house).

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