SATA out on REDDRIVE

[Brook Willard]

Copying a full RED DRIVE over FW800 to a single HD [or a mirrored RAID] should take about 2.5 hours.

[edit: I'm a doof, see below]

[Evin Grant]

FW800 is a little less than 80MB a sec. write so I'd say a full Red drive with 298GB formatted capacity should go down in just over an hour.

[Evin Grant]

Why do you think 2.5 Brook?
My math...
70MB/s x 60 =4.16 GB/min
298/4.26= 71.6min
Did I get something wrong?

[Evin Grant]

OK I found some benchmarks at Barefeats.com that put FW800 copy at about 46MB/s so that put's us right in the middle at about 110.4 Min or about an hour and 50 min.

[Brook Willard]

I'm probably a dumbass. Let me think harder.

[Brook Willard]

I do things the easy way. Copying from a FW800 striped RAID [it's old and slow... but so are 2.5" drives] to my Quad G5's internal drive took 7:00 for 20GB. That's 112 minutes total, so just under 2 hours.

That doesn't address any of the other RED DRIVE specifics, though... formatting, file structure, etc. We really just don't know.

[Scott Webster]

If you just wanted a cheap windows dub station, is it as simple as adding a 2xFW800 Express card adapter, REDDRIVE in one, out to backup FW Drive or FW Raid? Or is there a speed hit somewhere which makes this a waste of time?

Or does the whole Win Xp S2 make FW800 a no go on Win laptops? (Vista?)

[BVog]

At this point in time though, the speed of available hard disks or flash drives is still lower than that of FireWire 800, so there is no apparent advantage to this idea.
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Any external hardware RAID0 configured drive like the 500GB LaCie can take a higher throughput than FW800 delivers, I am using them for this reason,and the REDRIVE is a RAID0.

Anyway if the cable adapter option is possile that'll be fine.

[Paul Leeming]

If you just wanted a cheap windows dub station, is it as simple as adding a 2xFW800 Express card adapter, REDDRIVE in one, out to backup FW Drive or FW Raid? Or is there a speed hit somewhere which makes this a waste of time?

Or does the whole Win Xp S2 make FW800 a no go on Win laptops? (Vista?)

I'm pretty sure FW800 works ok on WinXP, so I too am hoping this ExpressCard style dubbing will be a viable option for laptops, as it's what I plan to use on set to create quick backups for the client.

[BVog]

I'm pretty sure FW800 works ok on WinXP, so I too am hoping this ExpressCard style dubbing will be a viable option for laptops, as it's what I plan to use on set to create quick backups for the client.

I am working mobile with a Sony Vaio AR11S (200GB internal RAID0), and it takes my SATA2 drives via Express Card, works flawlessly and fast with XP Pro SP2 (there is definitley no use for Vista in pro domains), FW400 and 800 are supported by XP, I use a LaCie adaptor card for this.

What I am up to with the SATA2 option for REDDRIVEs is using them for this setup as well as for a workstation, where I use a SATA2 patchbay to link any external drive directly into an 4TB RAID0 configuration.