Possible 128 Gig RED RAM Drive $5500 ???

[Greg Voevodsky]

I was looking around on the net and found this:

128GB external SSD with triple interface.
67 MB/s read / write, .1ms access time (FW800)

http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/cart.cgi?store=dvnation&product_name=128GB+external+SSD&exact_match=exact

It seems to have the data rate transfer speed for 4k. Though $5500, is a bit steep, you could shoot almost 2hrs 4k, and then transfer at night to your hard drives. This might be a very interesting solution for some of us documentary types - especially scuba divers. Any chance RED will offer a version of this?

If not would this work? Or do we need some type of RED proprietary adapter?

[Nick Shaw]

It doesn't have eSATA, so couldn't be connected to the RED. Nevertheless, the announcement of the 64GB RED RAM was a while back now. They always said that would change as new SSDs became available. I think 96GB might already have been mentioned. So maybe the 64GB SSDs used in that could be used in the RED RAM by the time it ships.

[Stephen Webb]

It's not been updated on the website, but both Ted and Jim have mentioned that it's now 96GB.

[Adrian Correia]

doesn't CF seem like a more affordable and smarter option at this point?

[Damien Molineaux]

doesn't CF seem like a more affordable and smarter option at this point?

Unless you need to be able to make longer than 4 minute takes.

As to 128 GB, that's more like around 1 hour of 4k.

Cheers,
Damien

[Zack Birlew]

Hey, if the RED RAM is sold at 96gb by November 10, I may get that instead of the RED Drive. The whole possible instability thing of the RED Drive has really given me second thoughts about it. It's just something else I don't want to have to worry about you know?

[Greg Voevodsky]

Glad to here the 96gb. I hope RED announces a ton of stuff, and pricing at IBC. I too would like to be able to shoot 2 hours a day on hot beaches in the Bahamas and then at night off load to computer. Now if 3-4 CF cards can do that - I'm stoked. Changing cards every 8 minutes when I try to do 4-6 minute shots is not what I call fun or effective. Fine on a film set, not fun on the beach or underwater.

[Jannard]

Speed, Price, availability and eSATA. That's all we are waiting for.

Jim

[donatello b]

i'm a bit confused on eSATA ...
does the drive itself have to be eSATA ?
or is it the external housing for the drive that has to be eSATA and that housing can have a SATA drive in it ?

[Steve Freebairn]

the drive could be sata as no bare drive has an esata connector.