Hi all:

I recently cut a commercial and ended up using a LOT of layers and effects. Material is mostly Pro Res, and Pro Res LT. Using my FW800 Voyager drives from OWC, I had to do a lot of rendering to see what anything was looking like, regardless of how I had the FCP playback settings.

I am wondering, if I buy a 4-8 TB Thunderbolt RAID, will I see far less red on my timeline and will green be able to playback more reliably and smoothly? I know I should be using a newer tower but I actually prefer a laptop, I travel a lot and cut in hotel rooms and on planes.

OS 10.6.6
FCP 7.03
MBP 2GHz core i7
16 GB RAM

Thanks,

Dan

sorry, Dan, i don't have ay real world experience with this.

but the answer would be YES


capabilities of Thunderbolt far exceed those of the any single drive
so you are right to be looking for some sort of raid solution

of course you can also never see RED again by setting your RT settings to "unlimited" rather than "Safe"

nothing wrong with working off a laptop,
the modern ones are super fast.


nick

Thunderbolt is definitely faster than FW800. Small Tree Communications was showing a system at NAB running dual Thunderbolt into a laptop running at 1.2GB/s. Yep, 1200MB/s.

The speed of your system depend on whom you get.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com

Yea. That was amazing. They were also SSDs. Insanely fast shared storage.



www.strypesinpost.com

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> Yea. That was amazing. They were also SSDs.
> Insanely fast shared storage.

Yep, nothing like 8 SSDs striped together at only, what did he say, about $3000 PER drive. The funny thing about that system is Steve had to create something that would create the throughput for the test! Simply incredible and I can't wait for the pricing on those drives to come down to reasonable territory so we can take advantage of something like that.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com