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Rainer Wirth
August 15, 2013 at 10:17 am in reply to: Gspeed ES Pro RAID keeps disappearing from Mac, have to re-initialize!

Hi Jesse and all others coping with such a nightmare.
At least Jesse, you are not alone with your problem. What do we learn? The G-tech hardware sometimes has its Monday productions.
Personally I wouldn’t touch this hardware – even if you can save some bucks, go for better hardware. We’ve got a Sonnet SAS R800 working for years flawlessly. There are a lot of other brands out there as good and reliable as Sonnet, but definitely not G-tech. If you scroll in this forum you will find a lot of threads with problems with G-tech products.
Throw it away and buy a decent piece of hardware – with no hustles for the future – in the end it’s cheaper.
The best raid is one you forget about that its there – A Raid has just to work, work, work.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
August 6, 2013 at 3:44 pm in reply to: Color Grading after ProRes Proxy

The original files of the FS100 are AVCHD if you shot on HD. I assume you converted them into Prores Proxy.
You have to encode them into ProRes or ProResHQ files into a different folder as the ProRes Proxy files, but with the same filenames (I think its numbers)
Then you set all the files in your FCP project file offline (copy your Project first). You copy the offline sequence and change the codec of the sequence (ProRes or HQ) Then you relink the files to the new encoded Prores files in the other folder.
That’s how I would do it.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
August 6, 2013 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Color Grading after ProRes Proxy

First of all,

I wouldn’t grade within the ProresProxy codec. Is it just the codec of the timeline or is all the material converted to Prores Proxy? If you’ve just made up a timeline then you simply can change the codec of the timeline, render and the whole project is there. Colorista is a very good grading tool, I can strongly recommend that. For further grading Apple Color would be my first choice. You definitely need a good external Class 2 or 1 monitor for grading, otherwise you tend to fish in dirty water.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
August 6, 2013 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Internal Raid 0 on Mac Pro – backup program?

I would use exact identical drives to do a raid. With an internal raid card you can do a Raid5 level array withina mac. The problem with internal raids is the temerature in the mac. The mac gets hot and after 3 years of professional use the raid goes bad.
I wouldn’t recommend an internal raid at all and I wouldn’t use a raid0 array.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
August 2, 2013 at 11:07 am in reply to: Promise Pegasus J4 or GRaid Thunderbolt?

I would go for the promise. We’ve made good experiences with 2,5 drives, but we don’t carry them around very often!
Eric has made a point: Array slows down, when it comes to its capacity end. (Last 20%) So more left space on the raid means better performance (30% headroom).

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
July 22, 2013 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Longevity (or not) of SSDs

I would handle data on SSD drives like I would work with a raid 0 device. At least a second back-up on HD, better a three way back-up on HD.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
July 22, 2013 at 12:52 pm in reply to: RAID configuration gone!

Don’t touch the raid! Rebuildt your system, get the raid software and run hardware checks including cable.
Then try and switch on the raid.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
July 17, 2013 at 3:07 pm in reply to: Raid for on-set use

For the data and speed you want to use on the spot I would recommend a FC Raid with 4x8GB FC Atto card and a 16 bay FC Raid together with a Mac Pro. Everything else is very experimental.
We use this for Bundesliga soccer. You can use a mac mini to transfer data but not as a shared system.
As a FC system you can use a Yotta3 from Axus (pretty solid hardware)

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
July 16, 2013 at 4:13 pm in reply to: Raid for on-set use

Hey, make it simple,
Alex has given you the best advice. A 12 bay set up. Both cards and brands are nearly the same.
Best ideas are simple!

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
Rainer Wirth
July 16, 2013 at 4:02 pm in reply to: single drive thunderbolt vs the cheaper prosumer raids

I think you should stick to the lacie 4bay raids.
Never change a running system!
The first step up the ladder would be a SAS 8-bay array.

cheers

Rainer

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

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