hot swap sata vs firewire enclosure

[HD Hildebrand]

Hi there,

I've had a lot of luck with firewire 800 in the past and now thinking of an sata hotswap enclosure or a new larger firewire 800 hotswap enclosure.

Obviously the sata would give more speed, but do I really need it? Please tell me your experience and solutions.

I've ordered a sata raid enclosure in the past and it was a total disaster. I know things have changed, but do I sway from my trust firewire 800 system. What are my limitations with Red workflow if I don't go sata?

WIth the firewire 800 hot swap I can download red footage, then archive the filled and redundantly backed up 1tb drives. It's all just so easy that way. But how about once I start to edit. What am I missing in the long run?

Appreciate any wisdom,
Dale

 

[E.J. Sadler]

You don't have to make an either/or decision, Wiebetech has trayless enclosures with both firewire and eSata -

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/RTX200.php

 

[James Brundige]

FW is perfect for archiving. It's great for editing compressed material. Apple pro res works just fine. If you start editing uncompressed HD, it will be too slow.

So it all depends on your workflow. If you are editing for broadcast, transcoding your RD3 to pro res works. 4K is another story. There are several options there.

 

[Rocco Schult]

if you are talking about a 2disc raid, there will be a raise in data throughput, but I don't think its worth it.
If you're talking about a bigger system with e.g. 4 discs the difference might be big.

 

[Dylan Reeve]

Swappable SATA is good generally - but I'd avoid using RAID in that situation, or you have two drives that must operate as a pair and are co-dependent. When they are not physically attached to one another (as they are in a FW800 enclosure) I'd consider the risk of separation or confusion to be too high.

 

[Jarobaru]

Maybe a 4 bay tralyess SATA enclosure with RAID 5 data protection is what you are looking for.
http://www.amazon.com/RAIDstream-po...4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218589166&sr=8-4

or a 2 bay firewire raid 0, 1 or JBOD

http://www.amazon.com/RAIDSTREAM-TW...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218589771&sr=1-1

I got one RAIDstream quad sata as my scratch disk and works fine so far.