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Will using these 1tb SATA drives in a raid work well?
Hey, I’m starting the editing on a feature that was captured in Blackmagic DVCPRO HD 108024 and I need 3.5 terabytes of space to copy the source material onto my machine. I already have a Sonnet Tempo e4i internal SATA card in my g5 2.3 dual core and was planning on purchasing 4, 1tb Seagate drives to then software stripe though disk utility into one big 4gb partition – do the 1tb drives work well for this? Second, instead of packing all these drives into the front compartment of my g5 and one on the “shelf” inside, I was thinking of just running my drives outside to the top of my g5 – it seems like they’d stay much cooler that way even without a fan and also I wouldn’t be adding excess heat to the rest of my components in the G5… basically making my sonnet card an eSata setup. Does this sound like a good plan? Is there a cheaper way, with the components I have, to get 3.5 terabytes of space?
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ok. let’s step back. never, ever,ever run unprotected drives without a chassis outside your computer. god forbid sitting out on top of your G5. You’re drives are guaranteed to fail.
Those drives run hot as well – they need fan cooling.3.5TB of footage is about 70 hours of stuff. obviously this is a big project that someone is sweating blood and tears to make. do everyone a favor and tell them they need to spend $$ on proper storage. What kind of budget do you honestly think they’ll let you work within?
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I have a something to add to Charlie’s excellent advice,
Once you format your 4-1TB drives, you will have around 3.6 TBs of usable space. This leaves exactly no room for renders and other media.
Charlie is right, you need some bigger storage. I have an article on the Sonnet D800RAID that comes in up to 8TB (It formats to over 6.3TBs of Raid 4 or 5 protected space, you lose a drive to parity so really your are formatting 7TB and you then can afford to lose a drive).
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/d800.php
The D800RAID is built around the ATTO R380 card. A number if other raids are using this card . I have been using the Sonnet and love it, but your choices aren’t limited to Sonnet.
Jeremy
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