Storage for SD Capture / Edit

[Chris Poisson]

There are a bazillion good SATA arrays around for your budget, I have a Firmtec 2 TB works great. Think the whole thing with a card was around 1400 bucks.

[Dan Sheridan]

Hi,

I was looking at FW800 – G-Tech-2 – 500, or Lacie Bigger Disk 2TB as I am going to be creating 30second TV spots… would this surfice?

Dan 🙂

Currently have Mac Pro 2.6ghz, 4GB Ram, Black Magic Intensity Pro. – Just need to get storage sorted…

[Russell Lasson]

A two drive FW800 device can work great for SD. If you to 10-bit uncompressed (29MB/sec) then you might have some problems depending on what you’re doing. FW800 maxes out at about 80MB/sec.

A two drive SATA RAID maxes out at around 100-110MB/sec. It’s definitely faster.

-Russ

[Brian Pitt]

I use a G-force G-raid 1TB drive for DV and I haven’t had a single issue with it.

[Ben Scott]

there is no need to have RAIDs for DV footage, unless your using the multicam feature

if the SD is captured uncompressed it matters, if only DV you are wasting your money

it all depends on the data rates

check these links
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_ron/how_raid_works/index.html
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/raid_it_young.html
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_kathlyn/eide_drives_in_dv/index.html
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_disk_array.html

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[Dan Sheridan]

Hi,

It is for capture of SD footage… and editing… but not multi-stream – just simple edits…