Hard drives (storage and editing)

[Ryan Lalonde]

Hey everyone,

I'm getting more and more requests to finish smaller projects in house rather than sending the footage to a post house (doing commercials in more of a corporate film type workflow)

Shooting Epic in 5K or 4K and usually ending up as 1080p for the web or other deliverables.

What do you recommend for a good RAID (drives and system) to work off of and drives to back up.

Before 5K I simply had a 1TB internal for OS and apps, another 1TB internal to render out to and source footage on a 2TB GRAID connected through ESATA.

Looking for more speed! Doesn't have to much bigger than 6TB since I normally only have 1-3 projects going that are 1-2 TB in size.

I've used these and they are awesome since I can also plug them into my macbook pro and go portable...but still too slow

http://www.g-technology.eu/products/g-speed-q.php

[Grant H]

How about the eS PRO in RAID0?

http://www.g-technology.eu/products/g-speed-es-pro.php

[Ryan Lalonde]

Thanks Grant,

Still seems pretty slow. Then again I have no idea really what I'll need for speed.

I'm editing in premiere and colouring in Resolve.

I figured I'd need upwards of 600MB/s from the RAID to have decent playback.

I'm brand new to Premiere so I not really sure what the need is... I'll have to look around some more.

[Grant H]

That's quite the speeds you're looking for. Have you thought about 5x SSD's in RAID0 then? You'll get around 580MB/s with that scenario.

[Grant H]

This is also another option but these speeds and costs are a little out of my reach so have never really invested much research into the matter;

http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr8mbha.html

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/203951

[Elsie N]

Here's a couple of links to a possible option.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227740

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227753

They easily cover you need for speed.

EDIT: Never mind. I just re-read your post and see that you are on a Mac. I think these are Windows only, but I'm not sure. And of course, these are OS drives primarily. The 1 TB hybrid could work as an editing drive and then transfer over to storage.

[Grant H]

Here's a couple of links to a possible option.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227740

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227753

They easily cover you need for speed.

EDIT: Never mind. I just re-read your post and see that you are on a Mac. I think these are Windows only, but I'm not sure. And of course, these are OS drives primarily. The 1 TB hybrid could work as an editing drive and then transfer over to storage.

Elsie, appreciate the link to those. Do you have any understanding as to why they're so cheap for an apparent large amount of data? I don't quite understand the 'SSD/HDD' hybrid.

[Ryan Lalonde]

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5...co=MjMwMzE2ODQ

This might be what I'm looking for!

[Matt Gottshalk]

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5...co=MjMwMzE2ODQ

This might be what I'm looking for!

Not spectacular reviews there...

[Elsie N]

Elsie, appreciate the link to those. Do you have any understanding as to why they're so cheap for an apparent large amount of data? I don't quite understand the 'SSD/HDD' hybrid.

Hi Grant, the Hybrid SSD is only 240 GBs as I understand it, and the HDD is probably a 750 GB to round it out to a TB. I'm guessing the cost for that is reasonably low due to the fact that being a PCIe 4 lane drive it may be a little more difficult to install. Some of the reviews seem to point that way.

Their 1 TB all SSD model runs about $2500 or so.