RAID setup for all this p2 business..

rgdfilms

rgdfilms

Wet poodle
Hey guys

Shot two big jobs this weekend and now my boss is looking for a long term storage solution. On set we have a powerbook and two G-RAIDS for offloading.. I would like to have some kind of RAID system at the home base where we can transfer all material after a job is complete..

this is what I'm thinking..

One of these pups..

http://firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2eEN4/


and four of these guys all raided into a 3+1 setup..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136014


Thoughts??


:dankk2:
 
Great cases - I've got 2 of these striped together with 8 250GB barracudas with a RocketRAID. 440mb/s read and 360-odd write.
Very quiet. Very reliable

What will you back all this up to though? RAID 5 can still lose your data if more than one drive goes.
I've got a third of these cases running off a Seritek 4-port card for hotswap backup.
Fast, cheap backup.

my 2 pence worth...
 
If it is for backup, fault tolerant RAID is still prone to directory damage, power spikes, etc. If truly for long term backup and you need a SOLID solution, I'd get that Firmtek 2 bay, but I'd just back up to two drives, either mirrored for ease of copying (RAID 1, then never alter just one) or just two copies, then put them in physically separate locations - as in different buildings in case there is a fire, flood, whatever (it happens, had a doc with 300 DV tapes have a fire in their editing suite building). That's my $0.02 for serious backups.
 
Along the fire and flood concerns... I keep one set of HDCAM tapes in my edit suite at the office... and a cloned copy in a fire/flood proof safe at home. The same obviously can be done with any backup media you have whether it's tapes, discs or HDs. You can get a nice/quality safe at Office Depot for a couple hundred dollars. Mine weighs about 100 pounds but worth the peace of mind.
Jim
 
In my own setup here I have a 4-channel Firmtek external hot-swap SATA system.

I just started shooting with Panasonic's P2 camera. The MXF files get written to a pair of drives set up as a Level-1 mirrored RAID for protect against drive failure. And the actual editing is done on a second pair set up as a Level-0 striped RAID for speed.
 
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