Fortunately, we’re redundant in our redundancy, so we had additional copies of the lost data on another drive. But as of late, we’ve had several problems with our LaCie drives failing. We currently back up to a small farm of LaCie Firewire drives… as well as to HD tape just for extra backup. We are considering purchasing two of the 4 bay devices for archiving and backup of finished productions, stock footage and the like. We shoot primarily VariCam and HVX200 HD and work a lot on the DVCPro HD codec as well as ProRes. Our third suite is used primarily for ingesting and encoding, so it’s out there on its own with an internal raid array.Īll three suites are connected to our network via Gigabit ethernet. We have an XServe RAID in place, not as a SAN, but with the lower half connected to one suite, the upper half connected to a second suite via independent Fiber Channel connections. We are a small-to-medium sized production company with three Final Cut Studio suites. Let us know if any of this was helpful at all. I think I’ve talked enough now and given you plenty to think about. Take a look at Ethernet Storage There are some Vendors listed in there that would be helpful for you to know, for now, or in the future when you need this later. It is going to be more expensive, but that is so for anything beyond where the Drobo is. Ethernet Storage is scalable short term and long term. Ethernet Storage is the next best thing to this Drobo that I could suggest. Don’t overlook the idea of taking advantage of something additional you already have on your computer. Just know that your Ethernet Ports will go 100MB/sec. You have to know the math about what this looks like in the network to really know how your going to be able to plan long term for growth and additional editing suites. So, with regard to Final Cut, if you do DV25 and DV50 and you do very little of it, one of these Drobo’s, could effectively support a couple editing clients at best. Needless to say a Video Editing Shared Environment. If you have plans for anything else beyond that in the long term the transfer rates will not stand up in a “Shared” environment. This device is good if you only have just one computer, maybe two. One note to make is that this is with no IO’s (Input Output) going on. USB 2.0: Up to 30MB/s reads and 24MB/s writes Here’s the Transfer Rates direct from their spec off the website –įireWire 800: Up to 52MB/s reads and 34MB/s writes So these thoughts are fresh.įrom the research I’ve done the Drobo is a good Direct Attached Storage (DAS) device.
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As a matter of fact I had a conversation with someone else earlier in the week that asked me this very question. I thought I might share a few important points. I admit I had been watching this thread and now I cannot help myself but to share my opinion. The Drobo’s ease of use, ease up upgrade, and the ability to turn it into an NAS for $200 are good reasons to consider it for certain users. This could serve as a common media pool for sound effects, music, and stock footage. Direct connect to one edit station doing DV or HDV work and it will perform pretty well.įor the shop with several seats add DroboShare for about $200 and anther Drobo with four drives –ġ2 TB raw, 8-9 TB usable, sharable over a network, $2400.00.
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I’ve been researching the Drobo as a back-up to the RAID 5 SAN I recently purchased.Īlthough Drobo isn’t a SAN, with the addition of a Drobo Share it becomes an NAS.ĭrobo Share is a compelling choice as dummy proof back up for shops with two or three seats, and Drobo is a nice choice as primary storage for one man bands doing low bandwidth work.Įquals 6 TB raw (about 4.5 TB usable) on a Drobo.