[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Randall,

this is rather unorthodox. Normally you would have all your data on a Raid5/6 external raid system via thunderbolt and do the back-up on the single drives. This is what you should aim. Future projects will go on your new Drive system.
Meanwhile you work whith your old system whithin the existing workflow.
After some time you get there and your main file system is on your Raid, the back-up on single drives.
By the way Raid0 is no option. It is not whether rather when your Raid0 fails and you loose all the data on it. in this case you can switch easily.

Cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
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Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi,

there are several solutions. One is:
ASUS ThunderboltEX II/DUAL – Thunderbolt-Adapter – PCI Express 2,0 x4 – Thunderbolt 2
As David mentioned, check tech specs carefully,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Michael,

a decent raid will let you edit in real time without proxy work.
The editing speed comes from the raid, not from the CPU power.
Your mac will handle it,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi

the R380 is no longer supported. The lates software update is years ago. So with el captain you should use a new controller card,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Sorry Bob,

I was wrong, thanks for correcting,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi John,

Bob’s right. You get a lot of other benefits together with an external raid array. With internal raid cards, the computer gets hot. The raid card is directly under the motherboard. Our experience is, that after 5 years constant work the mac goes bad, because of the immense heat within. An external closing has got a lot of powerful fans just to cool the raid.
Although support is better.

cheers

rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

I think you have a thunderbolt connection.

Your pegasus drive should work well for your editing capabilities. The R4 takes just 3TB drives.
Your max. storage capability is therefore 12TB, that means 9 TB with raid5 level.
To encrease your storage I would go for a 8-bay pegasus. You can go for a maximum of 6Tb drives, witch gives you an overall of 48TB, around 40TB with Raid5.
You could use the R4 as backup. Keep the G-Raid for timemachine.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi,

I would go for the sonnet with xsan server.
But for 200 TB you need a sonnet 1600 extension (with the sonnet fibre together)

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Juan Carlos,

I think you need a dual link SDI capture card for 4k 444,
and I think your data stream is roudabout 400 to 500 MBps.
So you Raid config is not fast enough,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Michael,

I wouldn’t touch a editing workflow with 4k without a decent raid (Raid5 or 6 thunderbolt or FC). The raid performance gives you the power to edit in real time.
Our workflow:
footage is on our working raid 4x8GB FC, Raid6 plus hot spare around 96TB space.
Backup1 on a Raid5 small raid system with eSata.
Backup2 on a normal HD, stored within a seperate building.
This means professional back up.
Your question: Why does a raid worth thousands of bucks no backup itsself?
If the raid would do a 1:1 backup on top of the normal work it would loose too much speed (Raid 1). The reasons for a raid are speed and redundancy. The more redundancy the more speed you loose. Even with Raid level 6 you loose significant speed.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems