[Ambarish Manepalli]

Thank you Chris and Dave for the extremely thorough responses!

I truly appreciate it. Especially the advice about winter, it’s snowing in Paris and my heater is definitely cranked up.

I think I’ll keep the toaster with that poor, naked, bare drive as a backup and maybe some light touchups of archive projects.

I definitely back up regularly and I have my projects backed up over various drives.
I also only edit on drives that have at least 1/3 free.

I’m looking into investing in a Weibetech e-sata/Firewire enclosure as my main project drive, that way I can keep replacing with new sata drives as the projects keep coming.

I’ll hold onto my toaster to make backups and archive projects.

Again, thanks much,
Ambarish

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[Ambarish Manepalli]

Thanks for the reply,

I do mean an adapter that allows you to put a bare drive in. The drive stays in basically by gravity, and the adapter has an e-sata connection.

With a 7200rpm 64mb cache 1tb Western Digital Caviar Green drive in a toaster (adapter) I’ve been getting sustained peaks of 60mbps with the ability to play three streams easily, with no dropped frames. And that’s through the toaster (adapter) i.e. no raid striping.
As far as thoroughput I’ve found that I’ve been able to do 3-4 streams of prores 422 and up to 3 of prores 4444 both at full HD 24p whereas even with firewire 800 I haven’t had the same performance.

My point of comparison is that I have a Graid 1 Tb (I think graid 2 from late 2008), striped in Raid 0 coming through a firewire 800, and that drive has been more than fast enough for my editing needs in xdcam, prores, and mastering on prores hq. I get a sustained thoroughput of about 45MB/s with occasional peaks of 55 when playing 2 streams, but then I drop frames.
I can do perhaps 2 streams of 422 and 1 stream of 4444

So, I guess, I do understand it’s better to go raid but for those on a budget is this a viable solution, or am I asking for trouble?

Thanks, for any advice or anecdotes,
Ambarish

http://www.rishfilm.com
vimeo.com/channels/rishfilm