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Nathan Sangster
August 25, 2020 at 11:59 am in reply to: Media RAID drive health and efficiency

Thanks,

I just didn’t know if the physical HD’s would last longer and work more efficiently over time. We did have a disc failure a year and a half ago and the RAID 5 configuration saved our work. I am a firm believer in that configuration.

Nathan
Nathan Sangster
February 25, 2020 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Thunderbolt 2 devises on Thunderbolt 3 computer

We are getting a new Mac Pro for editing and with the upgrade we are getting new T-bolt 3 media RAID drives. We would like to save money and continue to use our Blackmagic 4K Studio devices (T-bolt 2) for monitoring and I/O devices. We don’t want to draw down the through put speed of the media drives.
Nathan Sangster
January 11, 2017 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Trouble with importing clips from XDCAM

Thanks for the suggestions. I loaded the latest firmware and driver for my Sony PDW-U1 and it solved the problem. Prelude now sees both audio and video as one clip and no mxf read errors.
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Nathan Sangster
April 4, 2014 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Sharing a thunderbolt raid drive between two new Mac Pros

I am sorry to say that we are on a spending freeze until July 1 (which will be our first quarter of the fiscal year). Even then with budget cuts we may only be able to upgrade only if our existing equipment dies on us.
Nathan Sangster
December 6, 2013 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Sharing a thunderbolt raid drive between two new Mac Pros

Sorry I haven’t gotten back with you sooner, I was off yesterday. I will do my best to push this through with my superiors. They agree that we need an upgrade but making the connections to push through the paperwork is a challenge. Will be in touch.
Nathan Sangster
December 4, 2013 at 1:44 pm in reply to: Sharing a thunderbolt raid drive between two new Mac Pros

Bob, Sounds like a great offer. Since I work for a State Government Agency, we have the request for purchases delay that has to go up the chain of command. However, I would love to push something through and take you up on that offer.

A little more background: I work for Kentucky Afield Television, which is an outdoor program produced by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. We are celebrating 60 years of broadcasting this year. Check out our YouTube Channel (KY Afield TV) where we upload our segments from the half hour show after the show has aired statewide on the State PBS network.
Nathan Sangster
December 3, 2013 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Sharing a thunderbolt raid drive between two new Mac Pros

Thanks, you’ve given me something to think about. I might give it a try with one but have another RAID on standby in case the data bogs down too much.
Nathan Sangster
October 19, 2007 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Best hard drive setup for HD editing

We are looking at upgrading our Sony XDCAM to the new XDCAM-HD as well as an XDCAM-EX. For our purposes of outdoor hunting and fishing, we will probably opt. for time vs quality and go with the 25 mbs setting on the cameras.