Re: New Harddrive for Editing HD

First off I have to say that finding Creativecow.net was one of the best finds in awhile. As a new member I really appreciate the community sense here - none of the typical web forum sarcastic and degrading answers, just honest people lending a hand.

Zane - Sorry I forgot to mention. I am using a Mac pro with two open hard drive slots. I like the idea of getting 3 TB of internal space though I do already have one drive populated (besides the primary drive) but I think I have enough disk space to migrate. What is the benefit of RAID'ing these three drives together besides having one uniform space. Would you recommend setting it up as a RAID 5 solution (striping, correct?) or just leave it to make one big drive?

I have already learned that progressive seems to be the way to go. What is the file size of 1080/30p (since the AG-HMC150 doesn't support 60p, does anything?)

Ron - Thanks for the recommendation to Caldigit. Do you have this connected via firewire or eSATA. If firewire do you work with ProRes 422 and how many streams to you get. Right now I'm only expecting to have to work with 1 or 2 (depending on how final cut pro handles 2 video tracks with the second tracks video fully covering the first track. I looked at the specs and the thing seems pretty powerful. If it works well on firewire I may go for the 4 TB version if at all possible just to not have to purchase new drive space for another year or so (hopefully).

Cheers,
Mark