SATA controllers on camera - what do they do?

[Gunleik Groven]

Can one plug in a SATA RAID of any kind, format it from red (as 0, 10, 5, 50) and record?

Have a look here:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=48&page=15

I saw a comment that 3,5" disks were stupid.
Well, to me they're not.

@ 200$ pr terrabyte and faster than any of the Red stock options, I know a lot of uses for esata and sata raid boxes... -;)

Question boils down to:

Are all the recording options "smart" or "dumb" and is the camera controller "smart" or "dumb"

Gunleik

[Greg Voevodsky]

I agree - what about all these other options - that offer more space at a more affordable cost? Especially the bigger 2.5 or even 3.5 disks? They will be more bang for the buck, for a small sacrifice in size.