Re: re-stripiing sata drives

With multiple layers, re-rendered, compressed down to something else.....you sure can! Mick, kudos for wanting to deliver the best......

If at all possible capture uncompressed, EDIT with whatever, conform back to the uncompressed and deliver on the required format (which will be a compressed format). If you don't have the conform capabilities, then edit uncompressed. The one thing that people forget is that uncompressed is far less processor intensive and requires just lots of thruput. Format didn't come up, so lets just assume we are talking 8bit 4:2:2. At aprox 174mbs, this can be done with as few as 4 drives(Raid0) on the right system (gotta figure in overhead). The downside is it takes up lots of space.......

Now onto stripping.....

Like I said, if you HAVE to take the chance with RAID0, then just make sure you back up all your EDLs & batch lists, so if you must, you can ALWAYS re-create easily. If you do want to back up important content, then set up a simple two drive Raid5 (using large capacity drives) and run a cron nightly. Keep in mind that a 2 drive Raid won't hold very much, which will force you to work in smaller chuncks if you want protection and you will constantly have to write over this data. *If your simply looking to back up nightly and not concerned with thruput then almost anything will do the trick for you (lots of options). This will allow you to limp by....just keep in mind the more data the longer this back-up will take and the Raid5 drive/s won't be able to soak up the data as fast as what the drives feeding them will deliver. This can be a VERY painful process working with small drive arrays in uncompressed.

There are lots of storage solutions around and Bob is certainly someone who can recommend what will work best for the Mac (I can only recommend what we do).


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