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The new drives are no better than the ide drives that have been made for years. They are based on the same mechanisims with a newer interface but they are still the less expensive drives when compared to SCSI and Fiberchannel. I have many customers with raided systems and have not had a loss of data yet but there have been many drive failures and even hiccups that the systems will not be effected by. By the way the standard array I use has between 5-16 drives with a hardware controller and either a SCSI or FC HBA. Most are capable and used for uncompressed HD. After speaking with the tech people at many manufacturers including AJA the answer is the esata drives work in limited applications but they are not holding throughput as the fill up and they have been known to be problematic. If you save money and it doesn’t work how much did you save?
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I would suggest similar lens but native 1/2 for the HDXDCAM. There are some real HD lenses with 1/2″ mounts now available.
Last I tried to compare the PDWF330 and the Panasonic 900 they would not use that as a comparison as the prices were not close enough. They wanted the F350 against the 900 but the features were not equal for others. I have seen both seperately and like the XD better as the workflow is incredible.
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Eliot it may be better to get a SCSI or Fibre channel hardware based array for bandwidth and security. E sata drives and IDE drives fail more than SCSI and Fibrechannel so any system you consider should have a hardware raid controller and a parity drive. raid 0 is only for bandwidth and offers no redundancy. Thats why so many of the non raided ( JBOD ) solutions are so cheap.