Alex Gerulaitis
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Have you tried Windows 7 Backup?
(I try to avoid proprietary and uncommon backup software in case the vendor drops into obscurity and stops supporting it.)
Alex Gerulaitis
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It should be Sonnet Express SE, and then you’ll put in the ATTO R680 you probably already have as it’s usually bundled with eS Pro.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Like Eric said, the majority of desktop drives aren’t warranted, supported or configured for parity RAIDs (link). That said, HGST Deskstars are warranted for RAIDs, including parity ones, and I’ve had good experience with them. Would I recommend Desktars to anyone whose business depends on their reliability? Unlikely. 🙂
My fairly busy DL380G5 server with five VMs has been running desktop drives in RAID6 for the past four years 24/7, knock on wood. I wouldn’t run desktop drives in RAID5 though unless my tolerance for downtime and data loss is high.
Desktop drives are usually made on the same assembly line and from exact same components enterprise ones are; the differences are in firmware and warranty, and if my understanding is right, in test results: if a drive doesn’t get a certain score in these tests, it’s going to the “desktop” bin.
Is it worth the price difference? Depends on your requirements and (fault) tolerance levels. Google’s compute nodes are mostly crude and not very reliable desktop-class machines – and it’s fine because of a very high system-wide fault tolerance built into their infrastructure. Most of their other IT is very much enterprise class.
Alex Gerulaitis
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MPE is still there (it refers to 64-bit support and multi-threading primarily); GPU acceleration is probably greyed out.
Have you run Adobe updates? Looks like 5.03 enables GTX-470:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/793997
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Walter Soyka] “Avid’s DNxHD is also now a SMTPE standard (VC-3). I don’t think it’s going anywhere.”
Quicktime on the other hand probably is. 🙂
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[Soumendra Jena] “Do you mean the SSD choice is bad or the HDD ?”
The HDD – WD Caviar Green.
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[Soumendra Jena] “Im thinking to order this for storage”
OK for backup and exports, not so good as the main media drive – a little slow. Consider a 7200rpm Caviar Blue or Black.
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[al ellis] ” i’m getting stuttering playback on single layer edits running dnxhd185x in premiere”
Are these QuickTime files? If so, it’s more of a QT limitation in Windows and not a Premiere Pro problem; the common solution to that is to transcode or re-wrap QT files to something Pr can work natively with.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Consider Intel CPUs: AMD is great, just not too great for Premiere Pro.
Consider 32GB RAM if you plan to use Premiere Pro and After Effects simultaneously (e.g. dynamic linking).
Which drive do you plan to use as the main media volume – the SSD? The most common setup is: SSD for OS and apps, two or three 7200rpm drives in RAID0 for media; optionally a 3rd drive for exports.
(There is a persistent view out there that dedicating a drive to media cache, scratch file, media cache database improves performance. I haven’t seen any evidence of that. In fact, dedicating a drive to exports seems a waste of space and resources given that exports are usually low bandwidth flat files.)
Follow Videoguys DIY9 and 9.5 builds if you want to do it yourself.
If you prefer to buy a turnkey – check out this post.
Cheers.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
[Kyle Sanborn] “I should clarify that what I don’t understand is why it is showing Devices 0 Function 0 and only 2 of 10 devices on channel 1”
PCIe device enumeration, nothing to do with RAID per se. Two devices – two volumes. Channels – MiniSAS ports, most likely.
OK Ctrl-Z does show the same thing as the ATTO config utility. The RAID groups are active and healthy. The next step is attempting data recovery.
Ideally you’d want to hire someone like Bob Zelin or me to attempt it. To hire me, it’s $200 for the first two hours (and usually it’s done – or not – within that time), not sure about what Bob would charge. You’d need to install TeamViewer or a similar app to allow remote access.
Alternately, use one of the recovery software choices available. Download a trial first, see what it tells you. Proceed with caution, always in “read-only” mode first.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA