[Ewan michael Riley]

Thanks for the information Bob, I appreciate it.

As a general rule I prefer my hardware to be set up by someone else (a qualified professional, no less) so that if something goes tits up I know who to hold liable.

If the SSD RAID I want looks to be prohibitively expensive, I’ll either look into the DIY option you’re suggesting or lump for an HDD RAID. It certainly looks as if the majority of RAIDs out there are HDD.

[Ewan michael Riley]

I mean ‘ready to go’ as in ‘a RAID with SSDs already set up correctly inside the enclosure so that I just need to plug it in, set it up (which yes, would likely involve reading a manual of some sort), and start editing.’ Such a thing doesn’t exist?

[Ewan michael Riley]

Apologies, a typing error on my part. I meant to write, ‘appear to be HDD’. In other words, there appear to be lots of ready-made RAID enclosures with multiple spinning disks inside, but what about an all-SSD RAID? I would assume the latter would be the fastest, most robust and inevitably the most expensive – so what is there available?

Intended use? Effects-heavy video editing, motion graphics and colour grading.

Setup?

Mac Pro
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache
64GB (4 x 16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC
512GB PCIe-based flash storage
Dual AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM

[Ewan michael Riley]

Yes, it’s a simple matter of clicking a checkbox in Preferences.