RAID SOLUTION

[billysurfmartin]

Hope you are well.  I am looking for a RAID sltuion for video editing and wanted to know if one of these are better than the other.  4K editing, GH4 at th moment (mov).

http://www.videoguys.com/shop/allbrands/brands-d-h/g-technology/g-raid/g-raidr-with-thunderbolt-and-...

http://www.videoguys.com/shop/storage/g-technology-g-raid-7-high-performance-usb-8.html

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[RoninEdits]

i would guess both will perform similar with top speeds being determined by the hdd's. it comes down to what connections you prefer or need, usb 3.0 and e-sata vs usb 3.0 and thunderbolt 2. the firewire connection is slower and would limit top speeds. thunderbolt is the fastest connection but might only be helpful with ssd's.

[billysurfmartin]

I ended up getting the G-RAID WITH THUNDERBOLT 2 AND USB 3.0 8TB.  This thing is HUGE.  Next question.  I have a laptop and want to be portable.  Would installing another SSD card (or 2) be a better option.  Would editing be as fast as this sata raid?  4K mov's and mp4 files at the moment.

[RoninEdits]

a single sata ssd would be faster than the raid-0 hdd's.

[JFPhoton]

...just reponded on the other version of this same question. Ronin is correct. If your current laptop has only ONE drive in it, you MUST add a second drive to avoid hindering performance....unless your current drive is a PCI SSD NVMe drive. You have given NO info on your laptop, so, it is difficult to advise. In general, installing a second internal drive to be a " project drive",( which is an SSD), is the best solution.

Below is a quote from a Storage Review article on your external box :

The G-RAID was first tested in RAID0. It performed in the middle of the pack with read and write speeds of 316MB/s and 311.7MB/s, respectively. The 2big was the top performer in both read and write with 412.7MB/s and 353.3MB/s, respectively, vs. 254.7MB/s and 223MB/s from the My Book Duo.

[billysurfmartin]

I appreciate your and Ronins time very much!

Computer:

HP ZBOOK 17 G3 MOBILE WORKSTATION WITH HP DREAMCOLOR DISPLAY

M4000M

32 RAM

512 GB HP turbo drive

thunderbolt and usb 3

http://www.videoguys.com/shop/computers/workstations/videoguys-tech-select-hp-zbook-17-g3-mobile-wor...

I'm leaning toward this external (as I have a 250 coupon at VideoGuys at the moment and they don't carry internal SSD's:  GLYPH ATOM RAID DUAL-DRIVE SSD ARRAY WITH USB C, USB3 AND THUNDERBOLT 3

http://www.videoguys.com/shop/allbrands/brands-d-h/glyph/glyph-atom-raid-dual-drive-ssd-array-with-u...

[RoninEdits]

the hp laptop appears to have a pcie ssd, the 512gb Z turbo drive. so if your projects are small enough, everything could fit and run off that one drive. if not, the external Glyph atom raid ssd specs looks very nice.

[billysurfmartin]

Is it OK to edit off of your boot drive? I thought I read somewhere that wasn't a good idea…

[RoninEdits]

the super fast pcie ssd's are fast enough to have everything on the same drive. there are different generations of the hp turbo drive that have different speeds, so i don't know exactly how fast that one in the laptop will be. if you think it will be enough space, you could test it before deciding to buy the external ssd...

[billysurfmartin]

NICE!  Will do.  Thank you Ronin!