Good enough for R3D full playback? (Sonnert Tempo SSD RAID)

[Medavoym]

Hi!

Quick question about the Sonnet Tempo dual SSD PCIe card:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/893305-REG/Sonnet_tsata6_ssd_pr_e2_Tempo_Pro_6Gb_s_SATA.html

If I use two 6gb/s SSDs in RAID 0, they say it might reach speeds up to 960MB/s. Is it good enough to playback R3Ds in full resolution?

I am thinking of buying a Sonnet Tempo SSD for my Magma 3T Thunderbolt 2 enclosure.

Thank you! Any advice is much appreciated.

 

[Peter Majtan]

To play R3D's in full resolution you don't need high-speed storage - you need RED Rocket card and/or extremely powerful graphic card.
R3D's are compressed and their actual bandwidth is far less then that of a uncompressed material. You just need drive fast enough to provide the R3D data in real-time - even non-SSD internal SATA HDD (like Seagate Barracuda) will do the trick.
This is in complete contrast to when you need to transcode the R3D's to some other video format. You need to make sure that your drive can sustain the respective bandwidth of the selected output codec...

:sifone: Peter

 

[Medavoym]

Thanks Peter! I didn't know R3Ds are so forgiving.

This is in complete contrast to when you need to transcode the R3D's to some other video format. You need to make sure that your drive can sustain the respective bandwidth of the selected output codec...

:sifone: Peter

Is 960MB/s (two 1TB SSD drives in RAID 0 over Thunderbolt 2) enough for most uncompressed codecs one usually uses when outputting R3Ds?