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Thomas S

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  1. 13 hours ago, Phil Rhodes said:

    I'm with Tyler on the make-it-internal.

    If you want bulk storage, it's still hard to beat spinning metal. If you have the spare power supply capacity and the space, rack up four, six or eight SATA drives and use RAID10. Works like a charm and is absolutely the cheapest, most reliable way to buy storage.

    I have an 850W Powersupply. CPU is a Intel i9 9900k @ 5.0Ghz and GPU is a RTX2080 Ti.

     

    Do you have this internal Raid setup? Do you know a good tutorial on that?

  2. 14 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

    Unless you need it to be portable, I would just build the raid inside the computer. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Transmission-Technology-Support-2242、2260、2280、22110/dp/B07K52TKF9/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=nvme+pcie+adapter+4+port&qid=1571949792&s=electronics&sr=1-9

    Is an 4 bank NVME solution. Put 4x2tb NVME's in there and raid ZERO them. This will give you 6400Mbps throughput with PCI 3 and 8tb worth of storage. If that is too much, there are some PCI based raid cards for Sata and all you do is buy the cable harness and plugin as many sata drives inside the machine as you want. It's a bit slower to do it that way, but it does work well. External boxes suck sadly, they're nowhere near as fast and easy to fail. 

    Ah thats really cool! But I think M.2 SSD are a bit to expensive. 

    The PCI raid cards sound intersting. Do you know a good tutorial on that? Can I mix 2.5" SSDs and 3.5" HDs ?

  3. 17 hours ago, Adam Froehlich said:

    Are you expecting to use it for 1 project at a time?  Your RAID idea is what I would be looking into, especially if you're going to put SSDs in it.

    As for Thunderbolt, if your motherboard doesn't have thunderbolt already, you can't just add it via PCIe, you have to have internal TB headers as well.  The expansion cards simply add the ports, but still need the underlying Thunderbolt architecture on the motherboard.  Chances are if you don't have any ports on the IO board, you won't be able to add it.

    Thanks for the information. Will check if my motherboard has TB headers ?

  4. Dear cinematography community,

    I have build my self a good pc system for various tasks such as: editing, color grading etc. My main fast hard drive for projects was a 1Tb M.2 SSD. It has been working really good (maybe a bit overkill).

    Now I ran in to a problem that most of the projects I work on are bigger than 1Tb and now I need a new solution for a fast storage system / drive to do editing and color grading with big RAW files. I have been looking into the Samsung 4Tb SSD (2.5") which would work but if a project is just a little over 4Tb than that would not work.

    So does anybody have a good solution to this problem? It needs to be fast and not too expensive. Maybe something like a Hard Drive Raid System where I can stick 4 hard drives with a total of 8Tb and connect that to my pc via thunderbolt or usb-c? My pc does not have thunderbolt connection but I think there are some expansion cards out there?

    After a projects is done, it gets archived on a other drive.

    Would love to hear from you guys!

     

    Best Thomas.

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