NEW g-raid looks promising

[jpsheets]

Storage solutions

Storage solutions

Hey everyone,

Anyone had any experience with these guys? www.infrant.com Fairly reasonably priced storage solution for a network.

 

[evinsky]

Looks very interesting, I'd be curious about any experiences also.

 

[insanityfw]

The infrant thing looks interesting. they sell them at Amazon.com. I'd be curious to hear more about them.

What about another G-Technology unit?

http://g-technology.com/Products/G-SATA.cfm

 

[Neil Rowe]

g-tech has been around for a while now, and makes a few raid configs in smaller ?Gb amounts that are still 1394b/FW800. im not sure ill use the full 800 GB but it would be nice to have. ive been looking at a smaller version until now.

 

[rgdfilms]

Insanityfw I would just buy the FW800 g-raid. The sata seems a bit more expsensive for what we're dealing with, dvcprohd, plus by staying w/ the FW drive, you can hook it up to a laptop and bring it to a friends place and not have to worry about installing a sata card, etc.

 

[gdstaples]

I just built a 1 TB SATA II Raid system with PCI-X Controller, 4 hotswap drives and cables for $765. This is really an excellent system and much faster than FW. I used eSata cables connected to the hardware RAID/JBOD controller.

Case:
http://addonics.com/products/raid_system/ast4.asp

Controller:

http://addonics.com/products/host_controller/ads3gx4r5-e.asp

Regards,
Duncan

 

[insanityfw]

Insanityfw I would just buy the FW800 g-raid. The sata seems a bit more expsensive for what we're dealing with, dvcprohd, plus by staying w/ the FW drive, you can hook it up to a laptop and bring it to a friends place and not have to worry about installing a sata card, etc.

You think? I was wondering if FW800 would be enough and then I've seen a few articles and people are editing DVCPro HD using these and the LaCies (which I will stay away from). I have to admit it would be the easiest and most affordable route just to stay with firewire. I might get the SATA version to keep with my desktop and maybe I could use the FW800 as a portable if not big portable solution.

I like Duncan's idea, but I'm so technically challenged as it is. Thanks Duncan.

thanks all.