This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Drive Recommendations

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Drive Recommendations

Excellent! Thanks, Wilson.

Craig Mikhitarian
ACM Productions, Ltd.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@...> wrote:
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> The Datoptic 4-bay drive enclosure is no louder than an top-end
> workstation, so if you're OK with your CPU in your suite you'll be OK
> with this box.
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> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, craigacm <CraigACM@...> wrote:
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> > Thank you Wilson. Sorry for the slow response - couldn't get the list to upload my reply the other day.
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> > What is the noise level like on these units? I've been warned by others that some of these devices sound like a jet taking off. Is the noise reasonable for an edit room?
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> > Craig Mikhitarian
> > ACM Productions, Ltd.
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@> wrote:
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> > > For a fast, cheap, reliable solution, get an empty SATA drive enclosure:
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> > > http://www.datoptic.com/four-hot-swap-sataiii-6gb-enclosure.html
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> > > Fill it with drives. I've been using Hitachi drives for years (now a
> > > division of Western Digital, marketed as HGST) and I buy from B&H, but
> > > YMMV. Dunno whether you have sufficient motherboard SATA ports (in
> > > which case you'll just need a rear-panel connector bracket and some
> > > internal SATA cables) or if you'll need a port multiplier, but either
> > > way is cheap.
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> > > Props to electropura12 who posted about this last year on the list - thanks!
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> > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, craigacm <CraigACM@> wrote:
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> > > > This topic frequently gets discussed, but as tech rapidly changes, I was wondering if any of you would like to offer an up-to-date recommendation.
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> > > > We have about 12TB of footage - mostly ProResHQ - from a feature length doc ("The Anonymous People") we just finished. There are many additional shorter stories we plan edit for web and other uses that didn't make it into the feature.
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> > > > For the feature we offlined at DNx36 and then relinked back to the full rez material for finishing. This allowed us to use the internal drives bays of the MacPro for about everything. For final grading we consolidated and moved media via a FW drive over to a Symphony with its own CalDigit drives at another location.
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> > > > Now, we'd like to get a better drive solution that allows us to cut these other stories at full resolution without all the media management. We'd need at least 12TB of storage fast enough to edit with. Our main system is a MacPro with 3 empty slots running MC6.5. (but no thunderbolt port). It would be ideal to have a 12TB unit that was somewhat portable as we may be splitting up the work between editors in different locations. Also, the media is already backed-up onto numerous 3.5" drives at least twice, so we don't think this new system needs to be concerned with media redundancy.
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> > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> > > > Craig Mikhitarian
> > > > ACM Productions, Ltd.
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