Re: dropped frames, slow raid write rates

why do you make a post like this without saying EXACTLY what SATA RAID and SATA host disk drive controller card you have in your computer (oh, I know why - because you believe that these are all commodity items, and no matter what the advertising budgets - they are all the same).

If you were working in DVCProHD or ProRes422HQ, even with those slow rates, you would still have no problems. But I bet you are digitizing at uncompressed HD. And that is why you are getting dropped frame errors. I hope to God that you are not using the Apple XServe RAID. It's Sunday, so this is my suggestion if you are using an Apple XServe RAID for this system. Take your XServe RAID and walk it (drag it) over to your trash can. Tomorrow, order 3 internal SATA drives (at $140 a piece) stripe them together and go back to work. Otherwise, buy a modern SATA array (or fibre array) and go back to work.

(But I spent $14,000 when I bought this damn array) - well TOUGH NOOGIES - it's a piece of crap. It's over. Spend $500 for 3 raw SATA 1 TB drives, and have a better product.

bob Zelin
ps - your dual 2.7 will be useless in September 2009, so get ready to buy another computer.