OH please please Mr Epic

[Tom Gleeson]

I hope the Red is seriously considering USB 3.0 on their new SSD Drives. The avalanche of data this camera is capable of makes Firewire 800 look like a very small pipe indeed. USB 3.0 is already turning up in peripherals and in computers in the next few months. Its already a slow process dumping data off drives and about to take much longer when Epic rolls in. Without USB 3.0 any data storage device released in 2010 is already redundant.

 

[Pawel Achtel]

What about eSATA?

 

[Brook Willard]

I second this. If USB 3.0 is all that it's cracked up to be... count me in.

SAS [SFF-8088 connector?] would be a very welcome option as well, with the benefit being its maturity.

 

[PatrickW]

light peak please.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

USB3 would definitely be welcome. It definitely needs a SATA connector. Although, it looks like the RED Station is where it's all at for ingesting media and we already know that to have SATA with the ability to upgrade the base station model and media modules independently.

The SFF-8088 connector would be a welcome addition to the Station -- as it can host four channels of SAS or SATA. Each channel is capable of up to 6Gbps via SATA3 or the latest SAS revision. It doesn't seem to make much sense on the actual media, but a single eSATA connector sure does!

 

[chrislancaster]

if its not available right away they will surely build new modules that will keep the brains up to date every time a better technology comes out (seems daily)


thats what i think is so cool ..

just like raw you can make your camera better and better as time goes on

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I'll take speed for sure, but we need more rock solid connectors. SAS (SFF-8088) connectors are as close as we have to a solid connection. e-sata, FW800, 400, and USB are all too flimsy for professional work. I like connections that you don't have to worry about if the cable gets bumped a tiny bit. However, seeing that USB3 will have a lot of consumer impact, my guess is it won't be as solid as we want. Would love to be proven wrong.

 

[Tom Gleeson]

ESata

ESata

What about eSATA?

Pawel,

Many IT pundits are saying the ESata is on the way out and Western Digital have said they are dropping it off their peripherals. Once USB3.0 becomes mainstream it has the potential to be ubiquitous therefore easy.

 

[Stephen Gentle]

I second this. If USB 3.0 is all that it's cracked up to be... count me in.

I at least think it gets too much hype for what it is... I mean, it's a nice speed increase over USB2, but is still uses a lot more CPU than other protocols, and in the real world it doesn't come close to its theoretical speeds...

The ones that really excite me are Light Peak (which sounds completely epic, but no news yet on when we'll actually see it) and eSata (which is great apart from the stupidity of not having power!)

 

[PatC]

Esata for sure. USB 3.0 would be a huge plus.

 

[Vance Colvig]

Hmmmm.........interesting

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220200170

 

[Kevin Olsen]

Pawel,

Many IT pundits are saying the ESata is on the way out and Western Digital have said they are dropping it off their peripherals. Once USB3.0 becomes mainstream it has the potential to be ubiquitous therefore easy.

I think 6Gbps eSata is expanding already and SansDigital released a external DAS/NAS with this feature about a month or so ago. I am of course anxiously awaiting a performance comparison between USB3.0 as I am sure many of you are too.

KO

 

[Stephen Gentle]

I think 6Gbps eSata is expanding already and SansDigital released a external DAS/NAS with this feature about a month or so ago. I am of course anxiously awaiting a performance comparison between USB3.0 as I am sure many of you are too.

KO

Well, the theoretical throughput of USB 3.0 is 4.8 GBit/s, but with overhead that USB has, the spec says that the most you will be able to get is 3.2 GBit/s (400 MB/s).

SATA has less overhead, so given its 6GBit/s (750MB/s) theoretical throughput, you'd see at least 500MB/s, but possibly up to 650 to 700 MB/s.

Of course, you'd need a pretty serious RAID to get anywhere near those speeds!