| | | | G-Speed Q on HP Z400 and the rest of the series....
by Joseph Tims on Jun 22, 2012 at 11:44:25 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
Hi everyone -
Just thought I'd share this with you all as it may save some people a lot of hassle. (And because I couldn't find anything about it anywhere online.....)
I built an avid for a big location job that had a low budget about 2-3 months | | | | |
| | | | hitachi
by Carlos David Inojosa Coronado on Jun 22, 2012 at 6:24:26 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
Hi. my external hard drive hitachi will not start for what could be, is not got power comosi. Thanks | | | | |
| | | | AXUS Yotta III
by Rainer Wirth on Jun 22, 2012 at 11:32:16 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Hello out there,
this is a first Impression of the AXUS Yotta III Raid-24 Bay, Fibre 4x8GB.
I run this raid with Raid 6, one spare drive, Hitachi HUA 3TB drives, single controller. The hardware looks pretty solid. 3 fans, hot swappable. The raid | | | | |
| | | | Re: G-SPEED Q 8TB mounting problem
by Joseph Tims on Jun 21, 2012 at 3:22:23 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
Hi guys
So I brought the 4TB G-Speed Q for Avid MC6 running on a Z400 also... After two weeks same thing happened to me! And we were on location and it couldn't have created more nightmares...!
But having had it replaced via RMA the same thing | | | | |
| | | | Enterprise class drive RAID0/1 - which one?
by Alex Gerulaitis on Jun 21, 2012 at 3:32:16 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Need to order two enterprise class (1.2m MTBF, 5-year warranty, 7200rpm, RAID-capable, 6Gbs) 2TB SATA drives for a small internal RAID0 setup, and can't figure out which ones.
Seagate enterprise drives (Constellation ES, ES.2) carry a warranty of | | | | |
| | | | Re: Microsoft Surface
by Shawn Miller on Jun 19, 2012 at 5:05:30 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Phil Hoppes] "Microsoft looks at the very same thing and ALWAYS goes to, "How can we make windows solve this problem?" Not what do consumers need, not what is the best solution to the problem but how can we shoehorn in windows as a solution to anot | | | | |
| | | | macbook pro hard drive update
by Craig Alan on Jun 17, 2012 at 4:20:42 pm
in the Apple OS X Forum
MacBookPro4,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.5 GHz
hard drive:
FUJITSU MHY2250BH
232.89 GB
any problems with upgrading to Hitachi 750 gb travelstar sata/300 7200rpm?
Heat for example?
Are there any problems with installation? I've seen the on-li | | | | |
| | | | News: InfoComm 2012: Hitachi Kokusai to Highlight Latest HD Cameras
by Cow News Droid on Jun 13, 2012 at 5:26:59 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
(Woodbury, CT--June 13, 2012) Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd., a leading provider of affordable, high performance cameras, announces its presence at this year’s InfoComm, which takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from June 13th to 15th. The comp | | | | |
| | | | Re: G-Speed FC = Yotta Mini-Sports (YI-06SApEF4N)
by krum stan on Jun 12, 2012 at 9:56:52 am
in the G-Tech Forum
I wonder if this FW will work on my g-speed fx xl ,middle 2009. My unit comes with V1.46 2009-04-01 . It's different from OP's g-speed in the CPU and memory installed:
Main Processor 533MHz PPC440SP
CPU ICache Size 32KBytes
CPU DCache Size 32KBy | | | | |
| | | | Multiclip Frame Dropping
by Matt Wright on Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13:40 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
When playing back my multi clip in the timeline, every 5 annoying seconds I am getting the drop frame error:
RT Extreme has determined these dropped frames were caused by slow disks. Please try:
-Increasing the speed of your disks.
-Decreasing | | | | |
| | | | Re: ADVICE PLEASE: On a annoying RAID issue.
by Chris Simpson on May 31, 2012 at 4:46:33 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Jon,
I was surprised when I took the drives out to find they were caviar green, I knew they were WD, from raid web gui or disk utility, but was surprised as it was not my decision (don't put a lot if stock, in the green version of anything, be it | | | | |
| | | | Re: Seagate Barracuda for Budget RAID
by Jon Schilling on May 25, 2012 at 6:26:29 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Ben,
The potential problem with Seagate drives is not with the drives, but the firmware. Some Seagate drives may not have the same firmware, drive to drive. You could potentially update the firmware for use with the system you're using, controller | | | | |
| | | | Re: My RAID 10 Array wont even play HDV smoothly
by Ben Edwards on May 22, 2012 at 10:34:31 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thanks, are all the Hitachi drives not green. What about the Seagate Barracuda or Western Digital AV-GP (although the GP sounds suspicious).
Is there a list of non green drives anywhere. In terms of the spin speed thing it seems all the obes sl | | | | |
| | | | Re: Good RAID Englosure for 'green' drives.
by Ben Edwards on May 22, 2012 at 10:25:21 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Yes, I think the issue is green drives are not good for streaming hidef video. Depends how you define best;). I am using the drives for video editing, not high speed backups. I am a student so affordability is a issue. What I am thinking of doing i | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Bang for buck 8 bay raid
by James Barton on May 22, 2012 at 3:55:08 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Stardom SohoTank ST8, an Atto r380 or 680, and 8 Hitachi A7K series drives will serve you well--running in my work facility flawlessly for over a year now. And forget the Highpoint stuff--you need this to work and work for the long haul. | | | | |
| | | | Which eSATA card for GSpeed Q?
by Brad Bussé on May 15, 2012 at 9:38:10 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
I have a GSpeed Q connected to a Mac Pro w/ 4 2TB Hitachi drives, formatted I assume as RAID-5 to 6 TB. Which eSATA card is recommended for connecting this RAID, and what type of read/write sustained speeds can I expect when connected eSATA? | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which drives work with ST2-SB2?
by Tony Connoly on May 7, 2012 at 3:11:14 pm
in the Stardom Storage Forum
I installed the Hitachi 3TB drive in the enclosure and tried it for a few months.
Things did not go well. The drive seemed to be working, but every few days when I rebooted the computer, the drive either he drive was not accessible or Windows 7 a | | | | |
| | | | Sohotank ST2 RAID-0: Am I screwed?
by Mathew Medeiros on May 5, 2012 at 3:29:30 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
I am using a Stardom Sohotank ST2 (eSATA model) with my Macbook Pro 6,1 running 10.6.8 and Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro card as my main system. The chassis has a matching pair of Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM drives, and the chassis is set to hardware RAID-0. Norma | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Steve Modica on May 4, 2012 at 11:16:31 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
[Rainer Wirth] "That is interesting. I've got a question to Steve. As you work for small tree, one of the best raid storage producers, you say, that it doesn't matter wether to use a HUA or HUS drive in a let's say 16 bay SAS or FC Raid. Which drives | | | | |
| | | | A DIT question: to RAID or not to RAID
by Angelo Lorenzo on May 4, 2012 at 10:33:03 pm
in the Cinematography Forum
*This didn't get any love in the field production forum, but since the DIT is part of the camera department and we all have to work through data storage, I figured it was worth the double post*
When I perform DIT work, I usually purchase pairs of | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Rainer Wirth on May 4, 2012 at 9:10:47 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
That is interesting. I've got a question to Steve. As you work for small tree, one of the best raid storage producers, you say, that it doesn't matter wether to use a HUA or HUS drive in a let's say 16 bay SAS or FC Raid. Which drives do you use in t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Steve Modica on May 3, 2012 at 11:24:25 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
[Jon Schilling] "The SAS drives are going to give you the better performance."
This isn't really true. The underlying spindle isn't any faster and the vendor themselves will tell you the SAS front in (dual ported) is really for redundancy.
Tha | | | | |
| | | | A DIT question: to RAID or not to RAID
by Angelo Lorenzo on May 3, 2012 at 4:11:14 am
in the Field Production Forum
When I perform DIT work, I usually purchase pairs of external drives. I use Shotput Pro to offload data from camera and sound media which allows me to offload to multiple disks simultaneously. Time-wise, offloading to two separate drives is a non-iss | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Jack Johnson on May 3, 2012 at 1:18:59 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Bob, I'm very aware of the pre-made products available through and endorsed not only by this site, but specifically by you. Your responses are quite often the broken record of replies. Right now, those aren't the solutions that best suit my particula | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Bob Zelin on May 3, 2012 at 12:44:05 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Ranier has just given you great advice -
buy a Sonnet product - like this -
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondx800raid.html
it will give you everything you are looking for - a great ATTO RAID card, a great chassis, with a SAS expander | | | | |
| | | | Re: Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Rainer Wirth on May 2, 2012 at 10:23:40 am
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
I've come to the same question. The HUS drives are cheaper, the HUA drives are better.
I use the same sas raid system (sonnet R800) and the same software (atto) to control it. The HUA drives work perfect for two years now. Don't mix the drives! If | | | | |
| | | | Hitachi Ultrastar model HUS or HUA?
by Jack Johnson on May 1, 2012 at 7:07:00 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
I've recently discovered there are two ultrastar models, the HUA (sata) or HUS (sas). I'll be using an Atto R680 to control the mini sas tower.
- Does it matter which ultrastar model I use?
- And can I mix HUA and HUS within the same RAID? | | | | |
| | | | Re: 64-940 for 10 bit SD unccompressed?
by Joseph Owens on Apr 29, 2012 at 4:17:31 pm
in the DaVinci Resolve Forum
Type C. Hmmm.... analog composite. Just out of curiosity, Sony or Ampex... or... Hitachi?
That you have a 10-bit uncompressed file is probably wasted space, considering the original.
It would just be my approach, but... first impulse would ha | | | | |
| | | | CS6 Requirements: Video Card and Hard Drive Speed?
by Joesph Armstrong on Apr 29, 2012 at 1:12:27 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
To the Admin: If this is posted in the wrong section please move it to the appropriate.
I am a freelance editor and a film student and I am looking into purchasing the new student edition of CS6 Production Premium (when it is released).
However | | | | |
| | | | Re: G tech 1T drive unmounting itself
by Ilana Braun on Apr 26, 2012 at 9:00:39 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
I am having problems with two G drives unmounting themselves, whether on Firewire or USB, when not chained and in any chain combination. And of course the annoying dialog box that the disk disconnected and to eject it properly!!
The drives are th | | | | |
| | | | G RAID 4 TB does not mount on MacBook Pro
by Taghi Amirani on Apr 25, 2012 at 7:13:01 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
Hi
I bought a G RAID 4 TB to back some video data. After first back the drive failed to mount. I tried different cables, different macs. No good.
Took it back to the shop in London. They failed to mount. Sent it back Hitachi who clearly failed | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fasta 2ex
by Jaime Perez on Apr 23, 2012 at 6:58:22 pm
in the CalDigit Forum
Hello,
That speed seems pretty decent already. Some things that may be an issue are: your enclosure, if it is a 3G or 6G enclosure. Also, if your SSD drive is a 3G or 6G drive.
Here are the speeds we get from our CalDigit VR2 Raid0 with two 2T | | | | |
| | | | G-safe - drive not mounting > no error > can't rebuild
by Alex Gulen on Apr 20, 2012 at 1:48:23 pm
in the G-Tech Forum
Hi There,
Well, after the first problems i had my g safe unit was returned and i've used it for half a year now without problems. Until today..
For some reason the drive won't mount. Drive 1 kept rattling in the same rythm until osx says he can | | | | |
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