About 3 years ago I needed to do some casual no-budget editing, so I got a USB 3.0 dock & some raw SATA drives. Worked fine. About a year ago I needed to add some additional local storage to Z800 after I filled the internal bays, so I got a couple of 4TB USB 3.0 drives & threw in a USB 3.0 card. Works fine in daily commercial use, MC 7.0.3, DNxHD 145. What's not to like?BTW, I back up all my MediaFiles as a matter of course, so I don't particularly worry about any one spindle dying. That Avid has 16TB of media drives, and they are all backed up onto redundant drives. Hey, storage is cheap, why lose sleep?
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Greg Huson <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:
I've always used my little G-raid mini to edit with my laptop, but with the new macpro's thunderbolt connection, there's not enough bus power to run the g-raid. HOWEVER, my little $50 USB junk drives... er... uh... 'transport drives' are actually FASTER than the g-raid, thanks to the faster interface.
Is there a valid reason NOT to switch to the USB3 single-spindle for 'homework' editing? We have USB3 on several machines at work; the G-raid requires pita power supply, and it's theoretically LESS reliable because there are TWO spindles to fail. Nothing I'm doing on my laptop is 'mission critical.' (Eventually I'll outfit an external SSD drive, I suppose.)
Experiences? Anecdotes?
GH
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