[Nikolas T]

I never had this problem with V1 and A1, with KONA LHe with CalDigit Duo 1TB.

Have you tried deleting the User Preferences?

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302337

How about using ‘Capture Now’? Same result?

[Nikolas T]

I’m not sure they’re compatible with FCP, what about HVX200 and Focus FS-100 or Shining Citidisk HD? Of course it won’t back up your footage if you don’t have enough P2 card capacity. But you’ll get much better picture quality and smooth workflow.

[Nikolas T]

I used to use FireWire active switcher from nNovia to share single G5 between Camcoder and Io. And I believe you can share your Io with two Macs.

https://www.aja.com/html/support_Io_faq.html

[Nikolas T]

I’m sceptical about adding extra HDD’s into G5. It will share heat and power problem with the workstation and become hard to point where the problem coming from.

If you go with external eSATA RAID like Caldigit, your problem will go away. But you can also try not to stripe these drive together. Because disk performance test won’t tell you everything. I had very good data rate with others eSATA card, but it was useless and too unstable for editing.

[Nikolas T]

Both CalDigit’s 2 drives (S2VR Duo) and 5 drives S2VR HD works great with DVCPRO HD. Especially if you have MacPro, it seems the only fully compatible eSATA RAID solution for Intel Mac.

[Nikolas T]

The datarate of DVCPRO HD is less than 14MB/s. Should be very easy for your FW 800 array. But do not daisy-chain more than 2 FW 800 external storage, or you will have very poor transfer rate.

[Nikolas T]

David,

I think DVCPRO HD is the best format for you if you are going to upgrade to the Media100 HD Suite. And this case your D2 Extreme will work. But you’ll have frame drop and stability issue when you capture HDV from FireWire port, since FireWire video device and FW storage cannot share the same IEEE1394 bus. You won’t have this problem with CalDigit (doesn’t matter 2 drives or 5 drives) since it has eSATA host adapter card.

Using HC-Connect to convert HDV to HD-SDI, then capture with DVCPRO HD compression canbe a workaroud. Or you may consider HDe which lets you capture HD analog output from Sony V1.

[Nikolas T]

I have both Caldigit S2VR HD and HUGE U320. And I think both HUGE and Caldigit are excellent storage.

Caldigit has RAID 0,1, JBOD only. And HUGE 4105 or U320R has RAID3. But in order to capture and edit 10 bit uncompressed HD with data protection, you have to set it to RAID 3 TURBO which lose 60% of capacity. Say, if your HUGE 4105 is 2.5TB, you’ll get only 1TB in RAID 3 Turbo. And you have to spend $7,500 for the 4105 itself and ATTO FC card.

I believe you can capture and edit 10 bit 1080/59.94i in RAID10 mode by striping two S2VR HD. Even you lose 60% of disk space by doing so, but you only spend less than $6,000 for 2TB usable capacity.

[Nikolas T]

Tony,

I think you are talking about the enclosure needs four individual eSATA cable to hook up four HDD. It may be inexpensive but you’ll need at least 8 drives to edit 10 bit uncompressed HD. Because eSATA connector is bit sensitive, It’s big hastle dealing with 4 or 8 cables.

I’ve been using CalDigit S2VR HD for 10 bit 1080/59.94i editing for 3 months now. And it’s the only external SATA storage that supports 10 bit HD as long as I know. And it’s 100% Mac Pro compatible too.

I think field proven reliability and single vendor support worth much more than saving penny by trying to build inexpensive SATA storage.

[Nikolas T]

I would recommend KONA LH (PCI-X) and CalDigit S2VR HD or S2VR Duo with PCI-X host adapter card.

For monitoring, you have some options. You can use your current SD monitor to display analog or SDI output from KONA. You can get down-converted output from KONA even if you’re working on HD resolution.

If you want to monitor in full HD, you can use your Apple 23″ with AJA HDP or Blackmagic HDLink.