Chris Rye
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OWC is correct, the Caldigit RAID card will only work with Caldigit enclosures.
Have you taken a look at the CineRAID products. They offer a full line of storage products that are built on an enterprise level at affordable costs.
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Areca is also offering a similar solution. They have 4 and 8 bay tower and rackmount products. They had them on display at NAB. Really nice looking and had a live demo running 8 drives in RAID 5 delivering over 700+ Reads, simply amazing to think that this can now be acheived by using only 8 drives.
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Areca was running a live demo showing 700+ MB/sec Read performance in both AJA and Blackmagic tests using only 8 drives in RAID 5 at NAB. CalDigit only claims up to 500MB/sec. So even if their both using the same Intel IOP, I quess the Areca engineering team delivers a better designed RAID controller around the Intel IOP to produce the higher performance. The 200MB/sec difference definetly compensates for the price difference.
I also saw the ARC-1680LP at their booth. It supports 4 internal drives and can connect external storage boxes, up to 128 drives if using a SAS expander box. This is definetly the best solution if you want expandability.