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    which raid to use?

    Posted by Goro Toshima on December 29, 2008 at 2:09 am

    hi all,

    i’m starting a long form documentary (about 150-200 hours of footage shot on p2 card-hpx170) and am trying to figure out backup system.

    my plan is to use caldigit element for media drive and owc drives for backup.

    any suggestions on what raid to use for these?
    originally, i was thinking raid 0 for caldigit and buy 2 separate backup drives.

    now i’m thinking raid 0 for caldigit and buy one owc mirrored raid 1 drive…or maybe raid 1 for caldigit and raid 1 for backup.

    and raid 5 is also an option.

    thanks for any and all advice.

    Jim Kinsey replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Bob Zelin

    December 29, 2008 at 2:53 am

    don’t be a fool. Get the wonderful Cal Digit HD Element as you have researched, and leave it at the default RAID 5 – they will send it to you this way . DO NOT reformat this array to RAID 0.

    Use whatever you want as secondary backup.

    bob Zelin

  • Goro Toshima

    December 29, 2008 at 3:22 am

    thanks bob…i will use raid 5.

  • Jim Kinsey

    December 30, 2008 at 2:35 am

    I added the Caldigit Hdpro to my studio and it is a fast, reliable set up and I left it at the default raid 5. You can’t beat their tech support as well.

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