Alex Gerulaitis
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R680 isn’t generally associated with archive storage; but I wouldn’t stop you if you’d want to go that route: it’s great that it can serve both as archive class (fail-safe but not necessarily fast) – and performance (fast but not necesarily fail-safe) storage.
For expansion, you’d want to get Mini-SAS expander-style boxes; once a box fills up, connect another one to the back – this way you can create a new RAID set or expand the existing one seamlessly, with the R680.
(As I mentioned before, there is a cost associated with R680: RAID-qualified drives are generally more expensive than desktop ones.)
ST8-U5 is the non-expander type. Raidon/Stardom doesn’t make expander type boxes AFAIK. I’ll check if Areca / CinemaRAID does.
Alex (DV411)
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[Robert Houllahan] “Rocket Raid 2314 … is cheap”
That it is, and so are its features and support. E.g. it advertises to support OCE for Mac OSX yet it doesn’t.
Alex (DV411)
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[Jason Jenkins] ” I’m always hoping to find something that will enhance the power of my Macbook Pro!”
A triple-shot espresso macchiato. 8)
Alex (DV411)
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[Andrew MacRae] “So I’m looking for suggestions of retailers who have a history of non sales weaselness”
Pretty much extinct given the economy and the general state of affairs. Appreciation of knowledge and experience has declined considerably even during my 15 years in the industry, and with that – the “non sales weaselness” salespeople went on to do better things, mostly.
How about post your questions here? (The ones you wanted to ask that salesperson.) If anyone gives you any BS, there is always a BZ (Bob Zelin) to call them on it. 🙂
[Andrew MacRae] “I’ve got close to 30 TB that needs to be backed up… I was actually considering buying a number of internal drives and cloning everything, but I know how not permanent that is, and don’t really relish copying everything to fresh drives again in 5 years, or however long hard drive expected spans are now.”
I’d look into getting a reliable fail-safe box or two or three that won’t break the bank. Drobo 8- or 12-bay comes to mind, especially with dual drive failure resistance (equiv. to RAID6). These boxes don’t require RAID-qualified drives, will happily run with 5400rpm drives, and will alarm you if the drive failed (or even about to fail). Way better that cloning every drive every 5 years.
Alex (DV411)
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[Thomas Hughes] “should I take it to a recycle station?”
Have four of various Medea SCSI units gathering dust (but otherwise healthy) in the back of the office, and pondering the same question. Thinking if I wait another maybe 70 years, there might be a museum interested in them? ;p
Alex (DV411)
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[Jason Jenkins] ” I assume that the UltraStudio is merely passing through any effects accelerated by Premiere Pro and the host system”
Yes.
[Jason Jenkins] “or is there some kind of acceleration happening in the UltraStudio 3D box itself?”
No: UltraStudio is just an I/O box (with some conversion inside but no acceleration).
Alex (DV411)
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If the Academic version is the same as standard (I think it is), the number of installations is not limited – the number of activations is.
Deactivate the software – no need to uninstall – you will have the option to re-activate it with the same product key once re-installed.
Alex (DV411)
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According to BMD Aug 3 delivery update, it’s due to ship this month.
The best place to ask that question is your place of purchase though. Only they know your place in their queue, their place in BMD queue, and can get the most accurate delivery updates from their distributor.
Alex (DV411)