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Video storage for WinXP – DecklinkSP
Please don’t flame me if this was a recent discussion point — I just found this forum. 🙂
I’m looking to build out a dual AMD box (Tyan motherboard). I’m looking to keep costs down.
Any one have a good recommendation for internal SATA drives/controller that comfortably supports 8bit SD video?
Thanks! TR
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the cheapest thing that will work well is a 2 port Firmtek SATA card in a 2 port Firmtek external enclosure, with 2 SATA drives (Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital) – the size your choice. This will do 8 and 10 bit SDI and DVCProHD, no problems. Make sure you stripe the 2 drives together RAID 0 with Apple Disk Utility. 1 Terabyte will be under $1000, and of course, if you need less storage, it will cost less (the 250 Gig drives are pretty cheap these days).
Don’t cheap out with internal drives – the externals cause no heat issues, and let you swap out drives with no aggrivation. Everything is hot swap, like Firewire 800.
Bob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “Make sure you stripe the 2 drives together RAID 0 with Apple Disk Utility.”
In WinXP? I gotta see this…
😉
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If the board you’re getting has ide & sata onboard (ie tyan2895)then four big drives striped on the four sata channels would be ok for 8bit SD…
…otherwise have a look at the Highpoint Rocketraid cards.Cheers, Andy
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Thanks so much for the response!
You read my mind Andy — I’m currently looking at getting the following —
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8 x 500 drives will be enough to give you HD as well…maybe even as a raid5 set.
Andy
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