RedMag Record Times: 64GB / 128GB / 256GB + HDRx™™

[Ryan E. Walters]

As I have been planning for when my Epic-X arrive (Which I am EAGERLY anticipating BTW) I have found myself running the numbers for the storage, and run times for the RedMags over and over. So instead of doing the same thing over again, I put together these charts for reference and I thought that others might benefit from them as well. From what I have read so far, with the Epic-M's the run times for the 128GB RedMag have been close to what has been published, so extrapolating those numbers out, I arrived at these numbers.

Caveat Emptor: All things with Red are subject to change. These charts are meant for general help in planning for the Epic.

Enjoy! :)

Oh, and here is a PDF of the same:
http://www.ryanewalters.com/download...ecordTimes.pdf

[Frank Weeks]

Thanks for the info Ryan. It's makes me wonder which compression rate would work best for me.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Very cool of you Ryan, thank you for the numbers.

Now we need the same in terms of file size, if you feel like having a bit more Excel fun today. :)

[Ryan E. Walters]

Very cool of you Ryan, thank you for the numbers.

Now we need the same in terms of file size, if you feel like having a bit more Excel fun today. :)

Great Idea- here it is:
(Ok, now I've got to get back to other work. I've spent too much time on Reduser today ...)

PDF:
http://www.ryanewalters.com/download...ICFileSize.pdf

[Martin Weiss]

Awesome, Ryan. Thanks.

It's very worthy of a sticky.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Thanks again Ryan! Off of those numbers I am getting 31.7hs of HDRx 5k WS 5:1, and 63.4hs of non-HDRx 5k WS 5:1 footage in one 16-bay 1.5GB RAID with two drives "lost" in to parity in a RAID-6 setup, and calculating the space actually available due to formatting at 80%. Can someone more familiar with RAID setups corroborate?

[Ryan E. Walters]

Awesome, Ryan. Thanks.

(The last pdf doesn't seem to work; 404)

Sorry about that- link fixed. :)

[SeanBrown]

Great Idea- here it is:
(Ok, now I've got to get back to other work. I've spent too much time on Reduser today ...)

PDF:
http://www.ryanewalters.com/download...ICFileSize.pdf

File size is way up from red one no?

[Shawn Nelson]

I think 7:1 is going to be the best compression rate.

[Roberto Lequeux]

Right now I would bet alongside you Shawn. With 4.5k being enough for 4k resolved, that means that 5k has some extra room to spare. And if 5:1 is the gold standard with virtually no compromise, then 7:1 definitely sounds like a good place to be. It will come down to each running their own tests of course, but it won't be far from 7:1, and perhaps even a tad lower.

It is so nice and such a relief to know that this beast of a camera comes armed with REDCODE.