View Full Version : RED DRIVE: Could HDD be RAID 1 for mirrored recording?
Ralph Oshiro
04-24-2007, 09:01 PM
There's two drives in the 320GB RED DRIVE, right? Could the RED DRIVE be set up as RAID 1 (disk mirroring)? Or is the default configuration RAID 0 required for RED's datarate? I would much prefer to record RAID 1 if possible, giving up additional record time in exchange for data redundancy.
Brook Willard
04-24-2007, 09:07 PM
AFAIK, it's a hardware-based RAID 0 for data rate purposes.
Ralph Oshiro
04-24-2007, 09:22 PM
Yeah, I figured that. Thanks Brook!
Brook Willard
04-24-2007, 09:25 PM
Don't quote me on it... I'm not sure. I'd wait for firm word.
Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock
04-25-2007, 03:09 AM
It would be quite cool, although if you loose the content of one of the raids drive on the Red, chances are the mirrored drive is shot too (because you have dropped the camera, rain got into it, helicopter vibrations resonating the drive´s heads, etc....... paranoia city)
Jochen
Nick Shaw
04-25-2007, 03:10 AM
Stuart told me in the booth that it would (subject to change etc) be possible to set the RED-DRIVE up as RAID 1. I was asking him about simultaneous recording to RED-FLASH and RED-DRIVE for security which he said would not be possible.
Rocco Schult
04-26-2007, 09:21 AM
Aha!
But that would mean, that you could record to one single drive, too, no ?
Just thinking about future use of drives, single dockables... like those:
www.audavi.com (http://hardtape.com/Prod_Apps_Perf.htm)
They seem very appropirate for our needs and safety is more or less the same than with a striped drive. Effectively, a striped drive doubles the probability of a failure.
From what I could catch up at NAB RED is already talking to them but RED wanted striped drives and currently the housings fit only one drive.