thats the HUGE 4210, and it's GREAT, and fast. This is what Blackmagic used
at NAB. HUGE is a FANTASTIC company, and is recommended by Blackmagic and AJA.
BUT if you are looking to save money, you can't beat SATA. The Sonnet E4P is a fantastic SATA card for $299, and the Sonnet Fusion 500P port multiplier SATA chassis is about $499. Add 5 500 Gig Hitachi SATA drives, and you are doing 220 mb/sec. Fast enough for uncompressed SD 8 and 10 bit, DVCProHD, and READING (not writing) 8 bit uncompressed HD-SDI. You can get all this crap from Maxx Digital at (714) 374 4944, but there are plenty of mail order companies to buy this from. If you put 2 Sonnet Fusion 500 boxes on the same card (it has 4 ports), you will get write speeds easily fast enough to do uncomressed HD (but no RAID - just RAID 0). But if you want to WRITE at uncompressed HD speed, the HUGE is the box to get. HUGE support is fantastic, unlike Apple support, which is non existant.
I look foward to seeing a review of the CalDigit on
http://www.barefeats.com, before I jump in. In the mean time, the Sonnet is fantastic, and very reliable.
Bob Zelin
