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wanting to go RAID5 with SOHOTANK SAS… but what RAID card???
Hi there,
I want to step up from eSATA to miniSAS. I think I’v settled on a Stardom SOHOTANK, and Western Digital RE4 (Enterprise) drives.
But what’s the best card for my 2010 6-Core Mac Pro, and SOHOTANK, and Avid Media Composer?I’ll confess right now that I’m asking for advice because I’m anything but technically-gifted, and most of the tech-specs confuse me.
An Apple guy where I live here in Canada is recommended that I get an Atto, either an H680 or R380.
Someone else highly recommends the Areca 1880x (or some version of 1880).Then someone else weighed in, suggesting the HighPoint RR2722.
Would some of you experts be so kind as to weigh in on this?
Thanks in advance,
Malcolm -
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Using the ATTO R380 currently with G-Tech 8TB RAID.
For now its a Resolve/R3D set-up.
Waiting for a CUBIX to implement into our Avid MC Nitris DX system.
So far Im getting 300 + in speed test so Im sure this will suffice for Avid. -
thanks for the reply.
I’m wondering if I should get the R680, just to future-proof myself a bit.
Malcolm -
Malcolm–
At our facility we’re running SohoTanks w/ ATTO R380’s with Media Composer Nitris DX hardware and get terrific performance, currently 500+MB writes and near 600MB reads, with our arrays half-full (6.5TB total)–either the 680 or 380 will work great–ATTO costs more but the performance is there and the integration is trouble-free. ATTO’s support is outstanding–they’ll happily (and quickly) answer any questions you have.
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James, thank you for the response. I’m going to go ahead with this, except I’ll get the R680 instead of the 380. Might not do me any good now, but maybe down the line… I don’t know, I’m just going with what the tech support guy at ATTO suggested. As you say, the support at ATTO seems really good. The fact that I got a guy on the phone without having to wait was great.
Regards,
Malcolm
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