[Jon Schilling]

Hector,

What kind of FireWire product is it. What bus are you using, FW800?

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Rhys,

We feel that it’s important that people know what their choices are and be educated and really understand what the differences in the products (your investment) are. That being said, here’s some good information on our HDPro.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/973491 ( 1 more reason to buy a HDPro )

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/973448

Regarding our PCIe storage, the HDPro, it is a very solid product. While there are differences between the HDPro and other products in terms of price, ultimately it boils down to overall quality & performance.

The Hardware RAID based HDPro offers these features above & beyond the competition:

1. Supports latest Apple 8-core MacPro

2. The ability to edit up to 2k in RAID 5.
RAID level of 0,1,5 and also RAID 6 as well as JBOD

3. ASTT, (Active Sustained Transfer Technology), giving you real world sustained performance.

4. An optional load balancing redundant power supply.

5. A RAID card INSIDE the product, keeping the heat from the card out of your Tower.

6. The option of an ExpressCard 34 for editing up to 8 bit uncompressed HD at speeds upwards of 195MB/s. This is the fastest laptop storage.

7. The HDPro is easily expandable & with the addition of a switch, virtually unlimited storage capacity. We will be releasing switch soon.

8. The HDPro is SAN ready & will be shipping soon.

9. The HDPro is bootable from Windows and Mac OS.

10. The HDPro offers a PCI-x solution for G5 & G4 users. Windows users who have no pci e slot in their workstation can also benefit from it too.

11. The HDPro is modular in design making replacement of parts easy to do for the consumer.

12. No 2TB limitation on the Windows machines with the HDPro.

13. The HDPro comes with 256MB of DDR333 RAM that is expandable to 2GB.

14. CalDigit offers a 3 year warranty & technical support.

15. The HDPro’s cable allows you to have the unit as far away as 20 meters. We have 1m, 2m, 7m, and 10m available and spec to make 20 meter PCI-e cable.

16. One cable (Some competitor’s RAID products require 2 or more cables.)

17. Single vendor support. With the exception of cabling and hard drives all parts are manufactured by CalDigit. Even our Intuitive GUI is written in-house, Everything in one box.

18. The HDPro has been validated & is recommended by Blackmagic Design, Matrox & Media100

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Gentlemen,

I have read through the thread here & thought I would help out with a link to a comparison that we did a little while back:

https://www.caldigit.com/support/RAIDCard.pdf

We believe that this chart will go a long way towards helping you make the best decision in your purchase.

Thanks.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Ron,

Sound advice from the man in the know.
I’m sure that many people will miss you & the Mrs. not being at the show.

🙂

Jon

[Jon Schilling]

Ken,

8PM is what I was told, the center bar, Hard Rock Cafe.

Jon

[Jon Schilling]

Sean,

If you’re at NAB, come by our booth & see our SAN in action.

Jon

[Jon Schilling]

Russell,

CalDigit offers a Dual 4 lane card, which will only occupy 1 PCIe expansion slot & let you connect 2 – HDPro units to (16 drives). No need for anything else.

http://www.caldigit.com/hdpro.asp

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Tim,

(I know we’ve had contact with you already on this)
We’ll square this away for you.

Thanks.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Some people had bad luck with Disk Utility stripe RAID with the S2VRHD, if you set it to our hardware performance RAID mode, you won’t have any issues.
The data rate is also slower under performance mode. Since S2VRHD has no RAID 5 protection, it is very important that you back up your data periodically.
We have discontinued the S2VRHD product, but still support it with drivers appropriate to newer OS’ and the product warranty remains unchanged for those users that have one of these units.

Regarding our PCIe storage, the HDPro, it is a very solid product. While there are differences between the HDPro and other products in terms of price, ultimately it boils down to overall quality & performance.

The Hardware RAID based HDPro offers these features above & beyond the competition:

1. Supports latest Apple 8-core MacPro

2. The ability to edit up to 2k in RAID 5.
RAID level of 0,1,5 and also RAID 6 as well as JBOD

3. ASTT, (Active Sustained Transfer Technology), giving you real world sustained performance.

4. An optional load balancing redundant power supply.

5. A RAID card INSIDE the product, keeping the heat from the card out of your Tower.

6. The option of an ExpressCard 34 for editing up to 8 bit uncompressed HD at speeds upwards of 195MB/s. This is the fastest laptop storage.

7. The HDPro is easily expandable & with the addition of a switch, virtually unlimited storage capacity. We will be releasing switch soon.

8. The HDPro is SAN ready & software is on the way.

9. The HDPro is bootable from Windows and Mac OS.

10. The HDPro offers a PCI-x solution for G5 & G4 users. Windows users who have no pci e slot in their workstation can also benefit from it too.

11. The HDPro is modular in design making replacement of parts easy to do for the consumer.

12. No 2TB limitation on the Windows machines with the HDPro.

13. The HDPro comes with 256MB of DDR333 RAM that is expandable to 2GB.

14. CalDigit offers a 3 year warranty & technical support.
.
15. The HDPro’s cable allows you to have the unit as far away as 25 meters. We will release 10 meter cable soon.

16. One cable (Some competitor’s RAID products require 2 or more cables.)

17. Single vendor support. With the exception of cabling all parts are manufactured by CalDigit.

18. The HDPro has been validated & is recommended by Blackmagic Design, Matrox & Media100

19. The HDPro can be purchased in the UK and worldwide through our network of qualified & reputable vendors.

If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon

[Jon Schilling]

Ted,

We will be shipping the CalDigit 100% hardware RAID card, the HDElement, (4 bay RAID 0,1,5,6 & JBOD populated chassis for use with the CalDigit RAID card) & our new HDOne direct connect product in a month. Creative Cow will have the press releases on these products in the “News” section posted shortly.

Thanks.

Jon Schilling | Sales Manager
CalDigit Inc.
Storage Solutions that work for un-compressed SD & HD, Photography & Audio
http://www.caldigit.com
Tel: 714-572-9889 X234
Fax: 714-572-9881
e-mail: jons@caldigit.com
Skype me: cgijon
msn: mpujon