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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

R2E LEMO to eSATA Cable Available Now

Kyle Mallory said:
Any one of many 270MB/s RAID 5's. Or as was mentioned, even the ability to cut on a laptop direct from the drives. R2E is worth the $$.
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Can you copy a 100 or so gigs using each cable and report those results? I'm wondering if they'll be the same as a the benchmark app.
 
Local Sales

Local Sales

Does anyone local to Los Angeles carry this cable? I need to pick one up for a shoot starting next wednesday and would love to pick one up on Monday. Also any idea what the price point on this cable is?

All help is much appreciated! :thumbsup:
 
What is everyone using for express34 esata cards in their Macbooks? CalDigit, Sonnet, etc?
 
Steve Sherrick said:
What is everyone using for express34 esata cards in their Macbooks? CalDigit, Sonnet, etc?
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I have the Dynex from Best Buy. BUT I had to download the driver from silicon imaging website because the one that came with the card didn't work.
 
I've been using the Sonnet with decent results. Wondering if there is any clear winner for all-purpose card in terms of performance and reliability.
 
I have both the CalDigit and Sonnet cards. CalDigit is rock-solid and seems to give better performance. The Sonnet card is also 100% stable for me and while it seems to be just a touch slower on huge transfers, it has two ports, which is very nice at times.

I have also tried a couple others like the one from Rosewill, but find that most others really struggle with providing a 100% stable product on OSX.
 
direct recording?

direct recording?

Can I use this cable from the RED1 body to my Esata raid and record directly to my laptop? This function of instant into comp. and unlimited recording time wo stopping will get me a job so will buy if it will do this????
 
esata isn't a host -> host protocol, rather host -> device.
Your question is a little confusing. What do you mean record directly to your laptop?
I hear 'rumours' of people plugging other esata devices (drives not laptops/computer) into their Reds.
Dave
 
yes

yes

Yes Dave that is exactly what I mean plug into the back of the RED1 body and into my laptop/ Raid and record for impossibly long periods of time. If this will work it will get me a rental on a science expeririment! Will this work???? anyone with a cable try it out????
 
In that case it won't work as your trying to hook up two esata hosts (Red & Laptop).
I'm supposing the raid is internal in the laptop.
What you'll need to try is an external Raid array (device).
Either way Red/Reduser don't support placing non-Red storage onto the camera.
Dave,
 
Yeah, I tried it when I first got my cable. It does work, but it works like non-certified media. It won't let you record more than 2K. That said, if you use a camera with build 16, you can record any format you'd like.

The drive has to present itself as a device instead of a host, obviously.

The cable rocks.
 
Thanks David... meant to say of course my laptops external raid array which would hook to the cable. Do understand that just not very clear! Thanks Brooke that is really dissapointing, as I think my raid is quite a bit faster than the RED drive (ORaid2 laptop drives). Guess this is protecting selling of drives... Ahhh the first death of open systems is profit. We can hope they decide to change at RED.... Just a wonder moment What if one put their own reaid array on the cable then formatted the raid from the camera?
 
It's some sort of hardware or firmware handshake between the camera and the media. When it doesn't get what it expects, it only allows 2K. The same thing would happen if you opened up a RED DRIVE and put in two other hard drives... it wouldn't let you record above 2K. It makes sense from one perspective [CYA move on RED's part. If somebody uses unsupported media on a job and it fails at 4K, the shit would land on RED], but bums out my inner hacker.
 
For those of you that shoot primarily in 2k, would anyone benefit form a side-by-side performance comparison of RED RAM vs a RAID0 configuration with two of our high-end SLC Memoright SSDS? I say 2k only because that’s the only way to record to a non RED drives (as uncertified media). Thoughts?
 
shaking hands?

shaking hands?

Hi Brook

so the handshake is not in the formatting. Kinda like the game disk thing with the info slightly out of where the data is written? Nice if RED would publish a list of approved extended raid drives, maybe a new product line for them.
 
Calling it a "handshake" may be completely incorrect terminology. There's no documentation on it. It'd be nice if it were publicized, but I don't expect it to be. It'd be nice to use non-RED media [fully understanding the risks we'd be taking]. Or, for example, what if the drives in a RED DRIVE fail? I'm sure RED will replace them for a cost, but it'd sure be nice to slap some 320s in there and have a near-triple capacity RED DRIVE for half of the repair cost. That sort of thing. My inner hacker'd enjoy it at least.
 
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