G-RAID or Pegasus R4 for editing 4K...advice needed

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Nicholas Natteau

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I'm about to start editing a long format documentary in Premiere Pro CC using 4K footage (for a 1080p finish). I'm hearing a lot about these hard drives:

G_Technology G-RAID
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00846Z4YY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3SPLR0MSOYZ8O

and Pegasus R4:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/812862-REG/Promise_Technology_PR402US_8TB_Pegasus_R4_RAID.html

I'm just not sure which to go with. Does anyone know what those drives' disk speeds are in RAID 0???
(I will of course be backing everything up (daily) on a second 4TB drive)

Thank you in advance.
 
The 4 drive Pegasus will be faster than the 2 drive G-RAID. Rule of thumb, the more drives you add to a RAID 0 the faster it will be.
 
Thanks for replying David. A few days ago my Pegasus J4 went dead with 4 x 1TB 7200rpm drives RAIDED 0, no power whatsoever. So I'm wondering whether the Pegasus R4 might not be more reliable than the J4
 
Something to consider about RAID striping technology: you're increasing the possible chance of failure. Consider a 1TB Seagate hard drive with a .15% failure rate within 1 year of purchase. If you put 4 drives in RAID 0 of that variety, you've increased your possible failure to .6% because in a striped RAID config, if one drive fails, the entire ship sinks. The numbers I used are made up, but it should be considered. Piling up drives in RAID 0 isn't all good. I think it behooves you to have a solution to store your data and also to backup your data as well.
 
I perform a daily backup of my raid 0 edit drive.

For what it's worth, I have had multiple drive failures using Raid 5 setups where the data was unrecoverable.
 
Thanks very much everybody for all the feedback. Perhaps the best solution then would be to have two identical but physically separate RAID 0 hard drives whereby I would be backing up not only every day but even after every work session.

I'm thinking RAID 0 for ultimate speed, but provided of course that I would be backing up the RAID 0 drive daily.
 
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