[Eric Brown]

cool. thanks so much for your help!

[Eric Brown]

actually, I think my final slot would be running at 4x, according to the newegg product page?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131821R&cm_re=z77_sabertooth-_-13-131-821R-_-Product

Expansion Slots
PCI Express 3.0 x16 = 2 (x16/0 or x8/x8)
PCI Express 2.0 x16 =1 @x4

which would make the atto card not usable? or would it just run far below its potential?

my plan now is to basically build a whole new machine, based on the Haswell-Extreme. Which will probably ship in Sept. Will be very similar to the Asus board you posted, basically, except with the updated x99 chipset. and freaking DDR4 ram.

I don’t want to get into the supermicro dual processor server boards, as I have used a couple, and the i7’s seem to work about the same or better, at a tiny fraction of the cost.

[Eric Brown]

but yes, I concur. I think I’d be much better served with something like an Extended ATX mobo, like this – https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128595

[Eric Brown]

I think I’d be able to BARELY fit the Atto card in —

https://i.imgur.com/ZG8mlTy.jpg

as you can see, there is an open spot at the bottom…but it would be a very tight fit. and it would be getting blasted with heat from the GPU above it and the PSU below it.

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[Eric Brown]

system-

Asus Sabertooth Z77
ivy bridge i7 3770K, w/ mild overclock to 4.2Ghz
32GB RAM
GTX 780ti x2

I am able to edit 8 cameras with just one cineRAID RAID5.

here is an example – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuddiKKzlV8

to get realtime multicam performance I did have to transcode the gopro footage to DNxHD 36 for the edit, and then relink to the camera originals for grading / finishing. pain in the ass.

I don’t have any finished video to show of a 12 camera multicam shoot yet, but here is a screen shot of it in PP – https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t31.0-8/10380250_10100920670176405_6800849194606559162_o.jpg

to get to work, I had to transcode EVERYTHING to DNxHD and then spread everything equally across two of the CineRAID units. ghetto, but hey, REAL TIME 12 camera multicam editing! and with a fairly modest machine.

I have done a ton of reading since my last post, and am actually now strongly considering an Atto R680 + STARDOM SOHOTANK 8 bay combo. I read that the atto cards have better read performance while the areca have better write performance.

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[Eric Brown]

thanks for the response.

not on a laptop. only reason I mentioned eSATA is because it is what I know. Most of what I do is big 8 – 10 – sometimes even 12 and beyond multicam edits of live concert performances. the CineRAID units actually work well for me, despite being fairly under-powered.

Just spent the last few hours learning about SAS. My one concern is that I am not certain I will have the pci slots, as I run 2 big GPUs.

But say I did have a slot available – I am having a tough time making sense of all this. Sticking with Areca, could you show me a SAS card and external 8 bay enclosure that would work together and work well for me? Areca seems to make a lot of cards.

thanks so much for responding.

[Eric Brown]

I cannot tell you how much this post helped me. many thanks