Alex Gerulaitis
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What about a Drobo 5N or 5D – or some cheap NAS? G-RAID 8TB? CineRAID H458 ($200) filled with 4TB drives in JBOD or RAID5?
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Most people had no problems; some people did. How about keeping CS6 around while you’re trying CC out? They run concurrently and happily on a single system, much like previous generations of CS.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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No way to connect it directly, and there is no single site or page describing the procedure.
The closest perhaps is a DIY NAS – plenty of info out there.
What you’re looking is one of the three: bare bones (no storage) file sharing server, NAS or SAN, either of which must be compatible with that RAID you’re speaking of.
I’d have said, “hire a consultant” – that would get you what you need the fastest way at the lowest cost (with the right consultant) – yet consultants are a dying breed as are people willing to hire them.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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[Kyle Doyle] “Does anyone have any input on whether this will cause slower performance within PP?”
Yes, compared to internal drives. Like you said, Drobos are archival devices, not primary storage with predictable performance.
It may work for you if you don’t expect consistent performance, and if its speeds are adequate for your needs.
(Side note: the much faster Drobo 5D held a promise of delivering better and more predictable performance – but in the end wasn’t working as a primary storage space either.)
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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RAID is very simple to set up and you can have Dell pre-configure it for you, or simply call me when you get the system so I could walk you through it.
RAID is basically arranging several drives so that they appear as one, with the benefits of faster speeds, larger capacity and possibly (with RAID levels other than 0) – resistance to drive failures.
If you can tolerate rare downtime and data loss caused by a dead drive – which assumes you either do regular backups and/or have a copy of that data somewhere else – then RAID0 is fine.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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Looks like a fairly well balanced system – except you do want an SSD – if not for the boot drive – then for AE GPC (Global Performance Cache) – which seriously speeds up things in AE.
Also, how will those 4TB drives be configured?
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[Andrew Migliori] “What will allow for the fastest connection–setting up a RAID system between the internal SATA bays or an external enclosure?”
It can be the same depending on the link and the number of drives.
Internally is by far the cheapest and can be fairly fast in RAID0.
Doing it externally will let you have more drives, faster speeds, better responsiveness, far better reliability, various degrees of portability, etc. – at a price.
[Andrew Migliori] “If an enclosure, what type of connection would allow for good video editing speed?”
MiniSAS in your case.
[Andrew Migliori] ” Is it cost effective to upgrade my Mac Pro to USB 3 or Thunderbolt…”
Not sure you can upgrade it to Thunderbolt – don’t think so.
USB 3.0 is thus far relatively slow, and only recently there started to appear some options with decent speeds (Areca 5026)
[Andrew Migliori] “can I set something up with the PCI slots that is fast enough?”
How fast is “fast enough”? 🙂
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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It depends on many factors but clock speed matters a lot.
In terms of BFTB (bang for the buck, or performance-to-$$ ratio), the 6-core is my current fav for most light and medium duty workloads.
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[Ricardo Reyes] “Alex, Let me clear up a few things. “
Thanks Ricardo! I was hoping you’d chime in… 🙂
Forgot about the non-expander “ML” version…
TB2 version of 8050 a coming? Before Xmas, right? 🙂
Do you think there will be a version of 8050 with SAS expansion sometime in the future?
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[Jon Schilling] “So, what you’re saying is to invest another $3K in 8 SSD’s to get the performance you should (theoretically) be getting?”
To saturate the 20Gbs TB2 bus – maybe – but how many people need that? Except perhaps the pure sport of benchmarking – and 4K DPX previews.