Nick Toth
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You probably have skimmer on? That takes priority. Turn it off with the S key.
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I’m not comparing FW800 to SoftRAID. According to the SoftRAID website they claim performance with a 4 drive RAID 5 of around 500 MB/sec read/write. The best you are going to get from FW800 is 50-75 MB/sec. My point was that for some of my less complex long-form 1080p projects FW800 has worked fine. The more speed the better of course.
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Depends on your needs. I still do some of my work on FW800 drives with no issues.
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I use Promise. In general they are OK but some of my systems have had drives fail more than once. They were replaced under warranty.
Performance is not always what I expected. I have seen performance in the range of high 300 to mid 400 MB/sec read/write (which I think is slow) to speeds closer to 500 MB/sec read/write. Inconsistent performance with Promise is my main issue.
Support is OK but you have to keep after them. I don’t know of anything better than Promise though. I was looking at Cal-Digit but ended up going with Promise for my most recent purchase.
I’m curious to see how it performs.
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If you can’t go with hardware RAID 5 anything else is going to be a compromise and SoftRAID would be my next choice. Check out their website and download the free trial before you start using your Thunderbay for real work and see how you like it
I would still contact OWC and explain the situation to them. Maybe they will cut you a break. Maybe not…
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RAID 5 usually requires a hardware controller. SoftRAID is a software alternative. I don’t know of any alternative to those two approaches. I use hardware RAID 5. From what I understand, software RAID 5 is not as fast.
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Contact OWC. I’m pretty sure they were bundling SoftRAID from the beginning with Thunderbay enclosures although I think you could buy them without it also. Maybe they’ll give you a break. I don’t know of any other reliable RAID software for the Mac. SoftRAID has been around a while.
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In the inspector hover over the title bar where it says Color Corrector 1. Or click on the downward pointing arrow all the way to the right
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Well isn’t it just like Apple to change the long-used meaning of a food item to something completely different… LOL!!
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Wouldn’t any FCP X user know exactly what you’re talking about when you say project, event, library?
When I’m in the Midwest of the US, I know when they say “sack” they mean “bag”. When someone in the Northeast says “grinder” I know they mean “sub” and vice-versa. 🙂