Thinking about an io…

[Bob Zelin]

a great SATA starter kit is the Firmtek Seritek 2 port host card, 2 bay SATA enclosure, with 2 Seagate or Hitachi SATA drives. This is VERY inexpensive, and will easily to 8 and 10 bit SDI and DVCProHD. Yes, you must stripe the 2 SATA drives together using Apple Disk Utility. I use this configuration all the time with zero problems. You will make back the money on this configuration the first day of billing.

Bob Zelin

[Enzo Tedeschi]

Thanks, Bob.

I have done some pricing comparisons, and to build one as per your suggestion comes to within a couple of hundred dollars of something like this in the same size:

https://www.streetwise.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=28_162&products_id=4602

and this unit has the RAID built in. A wiser option? Built-in RAID surely must offer some advantage… plus I’m in Australia, and I can’t seem to fins a local supplier for the Firmtek stuff… yet…

Do you have an opinion of the Lacie unit? Or Lacie in general – the views her are mixed.

Enzo Tedeschi
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Sydney, Australia

[Mat @ lacie]

Hello Enzo,
If you are considering a SATA solution from LaCie, you can check out the Two Big:
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10490

500GB or 1TB.

Works great for 8bit/10bit SD.

Hope this helps.
Mat @ LaCie.

[Enzo Tedeschi]

Thanks, Mat.

That’s the one in my link above – can’t buy from the Lacie store, as it won’t ship to Oz.

Are they shipping yet? Everywhere online is listing them as pre-orders only.

Enzo Tedeschi
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Sydney, Australia

[Mat @ lacie]

Hi Enzo,
We started to ship in the US a few weeks ago so I am fairly sure that LaCie Australia is also shipping Two Big. If not, it should be a matter of days.

Just in case, here is LaCie Australia contact info:
https://www.lacie.com/au/contact/

Thanks.
Mat

[Enzo Tedeschi]

Rock and roll, Mat.

Thanks!

Enzo Tedeschi
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Sydney, Australia