$549 1TB Bus Powered Offload Setup (SSD)

[Justin O'Neill]

Yeah I'll have to use a Macbook Pro to do simultaneous offloads. Thunderbolt pass through would make it even better!

 

[Blair Thornton]

Yes, so just use your second USB3 port on the MPA to offload to two simultaneously. It's just below USB3 max speed anyway.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Justin already knows this but I have this on order. The seagate bus powered 4TB in a raid 0 drive. It's $269 at BHPhoto. Transfer speeds up to 220MB.

http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/Seagate-backup-plus-fast-pr-master/

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1027404-REG/seagate_stda4000100_4tb_backup_plus_fast.html

 

[Justin O'Neill]

Yeah, I'm ordering like 10 of those when they come out Bob!

 

[Justin O'Neill]

What's nice about the Backup Plus Fast is the speed is a perfect match for the max offload speed of the REDMAGs. I haven't been paying attention though, are the MINI MAGS able to offload faster than 200MB/s?

 

[Blair Thornton]

Yes, 30% faster than RED MAG's.

 

[Mike P.]

I showed Bob my USB powered CineRAID a few weeks ago… it gets ~200mb/s…

Being that regular REDmags max out at around 220-250megs, I have a hard time dropping $400-500 for 1TB… As that seagate points out, you get 4x the capacity for the half the price… that's hard to beat as an in-the-field dump drive, if you're not using minis.

 

[Blair Thornton]

I'm liking Bob's 4Tb seagate solution for size and cost, but you also have to consider time offloading again at the studio. If your Studio Raid is TB2 > 500Mb/sec, then a faster bus-powered solution is better back at base too. Faster offloading drives, abeit only 480Gb, also offloads at base faster too. So although you may max RED mini mags offloading in the field, you'll gain even more back at base. My 2 cents.

 

[paul schefz]

backup, hard drives, portable and raid 0 should not be mixed IMO....one drive fails, it's all gone, raid 0 doubles your chance of failure....you will need a backup for those...

 

[Justin O'Neill]

Yeah, ideally you would want to backup and store footage on all solid state drives. Still a bit pricey to do that for most shoots though. Before long we'll look back and think we were crazy for storing valuable media on spinning drives.

For this job we are storing footage on 3 x RAID 0s but also copying over to single drives overnight and shipping them back to the states. This method keeps costs down, and redundancy will hopefully negate the potential damage of drive failure.

 

[Kwan Khan]

Nice Kwan! Now we just need SSD prices to come down a bit more and we can say good by forever to spinning drives.

I agreed, Spinning drives has to go (lol)

On order ... it should be better, and at least drop resistant.

Be Very careful, I burnt 2 OCZ Vertex 4 in USB3 enclosure in May 2013.
(Note: OCZ Vertex 4 in Power Hungry and get hot very quick)

 

[Tom C. Hall]

ssds overheat like mad when doing sustained writes. I'd suggest finding a local sauna and testing in there for an afternoon to see if the system can handle jungle heat.

 

[JR Monteiro]

Anyone know if feature film bonding companies will accept SSD's as an acceptable method for archiving footage. Or is LTO still the only format they accept?