[Jon Schilling]

The product you mentioned uses a software RAID card.

See this short video on the difference between hardware & software RAID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4WjVJIJqdI

We just want to educate people on the difference between hardware & software RAID. Software RAIDs use a lot of your CPU’s resources.

CalDigit products are ALL hardware RAID, with single vendor support.

We have 1 product now, the HDPro, that has a 30 day money back guarantee https://www.caldigit.com/HDPro.asp & 3 more RAID 5 products to follow. The HDOne, (lower cost cool swap HDPro cousin), the CalDigit RAID card featuring hardware RAID 0,1,5,6 & JBOD, and our HDElement a 4 bay enclosure that can be scaled up for use with our RAID card, more information to follow on these products on our website soon. All 3 products are under $3K as complete products…….cards & chassis w/drives.

CalDigit, we take the hassle out of a do it yourself scenario, with single vendor support all at a reasonable cost.

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

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[Jon Schilling]

Just my 2 cents.

The HDPro is a very solid product & everyone that has used & or bought one will back me up on this. The product was used recently to complete an edit on a new movie cut in FCP http://www.5-25-77.com this of course is just 1 example of the many happy users of this great product. The HDPro is as plug & play as you can get with nary a support issue we haven’t easily helped out on thus far. We also offer a 30 day money back guarantee & we also have a rack-mount form factor product.

Oh & most importantly, single vendor support. We use our own RAID card, which is in the product, not in your MacPro. This enables you to keep excessive HEAT outside of your MacPro & also use our eLane-1ex, ExpressCard 34 card in your MacBook Pro, with speeds of 195MB/s should you so desire.

Thanks for letting me point this out.

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]

If you meant bus powered, whoops, didn’t see that. Nevermind.

[Jon Schilling]

Just thought I would chime in. I just received an e-mail this morning from David C., Media 100 Product Manager indicating the HDPro has been validated with Media 100.

In the e-mail excerpt to CalDigit David said:

“Things are going well and we will approve these drives (HDPro) with Media 100 and Tiger. We will update our website with information too”.

Once Media 100 supports Leopard, CalDigit fully supports Leopard with the HDPro.

If you have 2 passive 4 lane 1 port cards, you can go between 2 systems, sneaker net style with our HDPro, True Hardware RAID product. One card comes with each complete CalDigit HDPro product, and additional card can be purchased for $299.00 MSRP. With this setup you can easily edit Uncompressed 10 bit 1080/60i 4:4:4:4

Read more about the HDPro here: http://www.caldigit.com/hdpro.asp

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]

I almost forgot, for those of you who don’t know about our HDPro product, more info here: https://www.caldigit.com/HDPro.asp

Jon Schilling | Account 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]

Our CalDigit HDPro is a native PCI express storage which has no converter/bridge involved thus it reduces the delay and potential problem of conversion, which also means the HDPro has more reliable operation.

Jon Schilling | Account 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]

The limitation on the 2 Gigs of RAM have been addressed with our latest driver on our website as of last night.

https://www.caldigit.com/support.asp

HDPro Driver: Driver for Mac Pro and G5

Jon Schilling | Account 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]

Just some FYI information for those in this thread.

Most solutions aren’t scalable like ours.
Most don’t have a dedicated CPU, and RAID engine like we do.
Other products don’t allow you the capability of upgrading cache memory, we do. (256MB standard, upgradeable to 2GB)
Will be a SAN solution, (we’re developing software now).

Jon Schilling | Account 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]

CalDigit introduces the HDPro, RAID 0, 1, 5 & 6.

It’s ePCIe technology, using SATA 3Gb/s drives.

Read more here:

https://www.caldigit.com/HDPro.asp

370-380 MB/s Sustained in RAID 5.

We’ve been doing some 2K footage testing, 3 days straight, no dropped frames.

Hope you guys don’t mind me chiming in.

Jon Schilling | Account 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