Ideal Hard Drives ISSUE BOB ZELIN PLEASE ANSWER
by Michael Belanger
on
May 1, 2007 at 6:58:07 pm
Hi
Hopefully Bob will be kind enough to answer this question. One, I assume many have asked recently. Mr Zelin did a report on the CalDigit products recently so I figured he may be able to answer my question. I am looking to invest in some fast, safe , large storage. I ran across many 10 GIG E solutions at NAB as well as SATA drive solutions. I was wondering if Bob could tell me his opinion of GIG E scenarios vs SATA scenarios. Does he recommend one over the other and does he think the GIG E solution is actually able to handle uncompressed high def.
Of course , others may be able to answer this as well. Just thought Mr Zelin was so practical and unbiased that he may be able to illuminate this grey area (grey at least for me)
I am aware of fibre solutions but this 10GIG E scenario is a new one and need an objective and knowledgeable opinion.
Thanks
Mike Belanger
Dandelion Editing
Audio/Video Post Production
111 Peter Street
Re: Ideal Hard Drives ISSUE BOB ZELIN PLEASE ANSWER by Bob Zelin on May 4, 2007 at 6:20:30 pm
you write -
I was wondering if Bob could tell me his opinion of GIG E scenarios vs SATA scenarios. Does he recommend one over the other and does he think the GIG E solution is actually able to handle uncompressed high def.
I am aware of fibre solutions but this 10GIG E scenario is a new one and need an objective and knowledgeable opinion.
REPLY -
there is no such thing as GIG E storage. 10GB is a data path to get the computer information into a drive array. The drives are still either SATA, Fibre, SCSI or PATA. Your INTERFACE may be 10GB (or GigE) instead of eSATA, Fibre, SCSI, etc. I have never tried using 10GB as a data path, although many wonderful companies that are doing shared storage, like EditShare, are using 10GB at the data path into their shared storage products (NAS and SAN). As far as INEXPENSIVE solutions, nothing will be cheaper than eSATA (except Firewire 800). eSATA from companies like Cal Digit are FANTASTIC. If you want shared storage, historically everyone has used Fibre channel, but 10GB is new, and I would love to hear someone's real world results with this. To simply buy an expensive 10GB interface storage array for a single MAC workstation seems kind of expensive and silly at this point, but I would sure love to hear how it works out for someone. Studio Network Soltuions is also selling a system to do 10GB for SAN.
Re: Ideal Hard Drives ISSUE BOB ZELIN PLEASE ANSWER by R.Howard on May 7, 2007 at 3:28:54 pm
Michael,
Bob is correct in that 10Gb is a transport method just like fiber. On the other end of 10Gb, you could have SATA, SCSI or Fiber drives, it really doesn't matter.
Now if your asking if 10Gb vs fiber is a viable transport for moving HD? Absolutely. (Not to be confused with 10Gb over Fiber)
We showed this off at NAB. Capture from an F950 thru a RaveHD that was actually writing to another RaveHD, our Head/Node concept and utilizing 10Gb for this very thing.
There are plenty of companies offering up 10Gb solutions but I wouldn't jump unless you really do your homework.
Cheers,
Ramona
Ramona Howard
SpectSoft, LLC
593 Hi-Tech Parkway Suite B
Oakdale, CA 95361
Phone: 209.847.7812 extension 104
Fax: 209.847.7859
http://www.spectsoft.com
