EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE for Red-One Video ??

[George D.]

Those of you who do post production work on video from Red-Ones; what capacity and brand of external hard drive do you use to store your data on? Is it Firewire or USB?

Thanks.

 

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

speed/connection: it depends on how much tracks you want to play simultanously from that hard drive.. say each track needs around 40MB/s .. multiply by the amount of tracks.. usually you'll need fast connections like eSATA/SAS and RAID 0/5 setups for doing more than two tracks..
Capacity: it depends on how much footage you want to store on that particular hard drive.. it depends on the redcode levels.. one hour of RED footage might be 100-152GB.. so 1TB hard drive might hold like 6 or 7 hours..

 

[Jay Gannon]

For transport/backup - GTech Hard Drives FW800.
For working with I use RADI5 and RAID6 arrays custom build. I also have some Caldigit RAID arrays.

 

[George D.]

For transport/backup - GTech Hard Drives FW800.
For working with I use RADI5 and RAID6 arrays custom build. I also have some Caldigit RAID arrays.

Thanks for the info.

I have checked into the G-Tech Hard Drives and they seem perfect. I'll be getting some.

I also looked into the CalDigit 4TB RAID Arrays. Very impressive!

I have one question since I am new to this, and it's a stupid one to most of you, but this CalDigit unit sells with and without a RAID card. What "exactly" is a RAID card, and what does it do ?

Thanks.

 

[Jay Gannon]

In essence a RAID card allows multiple hard drives to be combined to make one large very fast hard drive. This speed can be necessary when working in 2k and 4k, and if your working with more than 1 stream of HD depending on your compression, the more compression your using on your video the slower the hard drive can be. Generally a cheap RAID array is sufficient to work with RED footage usefully.

Check out:
http://www.caldigit.com/HDElement/

or

http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-speed-es.cfm

For entry level RAID systems. Or if your on a very very limited budget the

http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid.cfm

Can suffice, but I would recommend the Caldigit as a very affordable starting RAID unit.