Reliable is a big word in storage. Reliable doesn’t help you when your studio burns down. The storage is on fire!
Reliable is backup/archive on 2 physical locations.
If you do this with Firewire drives or a central RAID 5 fibre storage that doesn’t really matter.
In both scenario’s you need a Backup strategy.
So the GTX285 is the only certified card for a MacPro.
But you can’t buy it anymore because it has been discontinued.
Will Blackmagic support other Nvidia’s or ATI later?
Sequence settings: XDCAM, P2, PRORES, UNCOMPRESSED HD 8/10 bit?
Clip properties: XDCAM, P2, PRORES, UNCOMPRESSED HD 8/10 bit ?
Type of storage: Firewire , SATA, fibre etc
Type of Mac ?
I doubt it. It’s a interface connection, so you can hook up high speed storage AND a HDSDI/HDMI I/O to your MacBook Pro at the same time.
HD SDI will stay, i’m sure.