[Tig] Is there anybody out there

[Jeff Kreines]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> The cheapy hard drives you mention will severely *choke* when fed  
> raw RGB data in real time (200+ GB/second).  You will be lucky to  
> get more than 40-60GB/second into them.  And of course, there is a  
> very good chance that data will be lost when the cheapy drive  
> fails.  A striped RAID array is necessary to handle the data  
> rates.  This RAID array needs to be in a rugged enclosure so that  
> it can be hauled around, and may even need to survive on a portable  
> generator or battery power. That is why S.two's recorders look like  
> they do (http://www.stwo-corp.com/).
>
> I am sure that you are just pulling my leg.
>

Bob:

You're missing something obvious here.  You capture to a fast RAID,  
which only needs to be big enough for a day's shooting.  Then you  
dump data to either a pair of LTO-3 tapes or a pair of drives, then  
wipe the RAID and use it again.

You don't use the cheap drives for capture, just for transport and  
storage.  You'll need to dump the data to another RAID to work with  
it, of course.

Jeff "LTO-3 fan" Kreines