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Im getting some hvx's and plan on capturing directly to our g5's. Is there a external SATA drive that can handle uncompressed HD footage well and doesnt crash?
 
It depends.

Are you talking about capturing DVC PRO HD 720 - 1080?

Or are you talking about capturing true uncompressed?

And if so - at 10bit or 8bit?
 
If you are talking shooting from HVX and going live out of component video into capture card to your NLE, then you would need a raid-- SATA or otherwise. DVCPRO HD footage works great on even a single drive.

Ned Soltz
 
If you google SATA drives and boxes you'll find many. You would need a 4 chip card and a 4bay sata box to do this I believe. I was looking not too long ago and have it booked marked. I'll send it to you if I find it. I believe the box and card was about $600. This is minus the drives. Fry's has had some good deals of sata drive lately and I have seen that 750 gigs are stating to hit the market. 3 terebyte would be nice.
 
yes i need to capture live out of a hvx true uncompressed at 1080, to some sort of sata but i dont want to buy one that ends up only being able to handle SD or some lower res format, I was looking at G raid's as an option.
 
You'll need something that can handle a sustained minimum write speed of about 200 megabytes per second. That'll probably require a lot more than a simple G-Raid, which my FW800 G-Raid is rated at about 50MBps write speed.
 
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