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storage for Avid (external SATA)
Our system is totally messed up in terms of storage. As I started working for the company, the idea was to have 2 edit suites with XpressPro and use external firewire drives to move the projects around. My boss bought 1 external Lacies (which has been completely unreliable since) and added an old external SCSI tower to work with 1:1 footage. Then he decided we should keep all the projects online, as we produce training videos which are interrelated and we repeat footage quite often. That means, 18 moths after I started we have 4 external Lacies, an internal SCSI, an external SCSI tower and (the best bit) 2
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“I want to do everything, including uncompressed video, but I don’t want to pay anything for it”. If you have a dual buss computer (most people use a HP 8200, even though the Dell 650 is certified), you should be using 4 SCSI drives, across a dual buss SCSI card (ATTO UL4D). If you want SATA to work (and I can only answer this for a HP 8200), stick TWO 2 port SATA cards in slots 4 and 5, and run FOUR SATA drives stripped RAID 0, and you will get reliable 1:1. The G-Tech drives are FW800, and are MUCH more reliable than the horrible Lacie drives, but will not allow you to do 1:1 with an AVID.
Bob Zelin
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Thanks Bob. What about the Granite external enclosure with the HighPoint RocketRAID adapter (eight ports, PCI-X). Looks pretty good to me, I could just buy 300 SATA drives (8) and strip then in RAID 0, getting over 2TB storage, and the possibility to add more enclosures as our video collection grows up, but, again, I’m not sure if the performance is going to be good enough for 1:1.
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I’m getting very reliable 1:1 playback off of 4 drives with RAID5 on a 3Ware controller. But if you want to go external you might also try this company: http://www.enhance-tech.com.
They use SATA drives which will connect to your system via U320 SCSI.
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