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To RAID or not
What’s the advantage of any RAID drive over a non raid drive? I’m contemplating just getting the non raid G-tech mini so why should I spend the money for the RAID version?
Best,
Chuck
Charles Fazio
Managing Partner
Mark Rivera’s NewYork State of Mind Entertainment Group (NYSOM-EG)
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Speed and additional RT with many codecs….if you add multiple layers. With a regular firewire drive you might get 2-3 layers of RT video if you edit DV. A Raid will get your more layers of RT.
Plus you can work with larger formats like Uncompressed SD and HD.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[chuckfaz] “What’s the advantage of any RAID drive over a non raid drive?”
Chuck
RAIDS ( Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives) allow for greater performance on capture- and when working in HD content I would not ever suggest someone capture to a single drive. Drives like the Graid Mini allow a user the highest bandwidth for capture and playback with the least amount of effort or Overhead.I was lucky enough to test some of the early versions of the mini and was very impressed. 10bt SD and DVCPROHD compressed content played back flawlessly.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
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