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Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:49 pmby davidanderson
We are working with full aperture 4K .DPX files, and would like to put in a 4 or 6 drive SSD array for working space in our Windows 7 X99 machines.
Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced PCIe RAID card that would work okay?
Thanks!
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Thu Jul 16, 2015 6:18 amby Adam Simmons
Depends on the type of RAID you want. If it's just striped (RAID 0) then you could probably just try using the sockets on the Motherboard
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:31 amby davidanderson
Thanks, it is RAID0, but we only have two free sockets on the board, hence the need for a card.
What we do need is performance, and reliability, with our other machine that has more SATA ports on the mainboard, we get a sustained 2.5GBytes/s out of the SSD array with 4 SSDs, we would like to get similar or better with a card in the other machines.
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:24 pmby Richard Emile Malouf
This is not the latest technology, but I am using it and it works well. I've heard it works even better with the back-up battery. I'm using it without the battery and I'm getting pretty good speed on my RAID3 array
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... -_-ProductGA-x79s-UP5
Mac osx 10.9.5
Hackintosh
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:08 pmby Adam Simmons
This appears to be the updated PCI-e 3 version of that card
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6816151213although both cards only take 4 drives. I'm sure they will do an 8 drive version
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:44 amby Richard Emile Malouf
Ooops sorry, it's actually the 1224, and not the 1214. I will update my link
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... -_-Product
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sat Jul 18, 2015 3:17 amby davidanderson
Thanks,
that looks perfect.
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:07 amby Adam Simmons
You probably want to look for the PCI-e 3 version as it should be faster
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:12 pmby John Fishback
Also checkout ATTO products. They have terrific sales engineers who will answer your questions. You probably could use the R680.
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:43 pmby Dermot Shane
i use a Dell perc800 HBA and 2x md1200's with 2tb sas drives... not really the lowest budget solution, but with some fleabay hunting you could be up and running around $6k / 40Tb raid5 storage that's fast enough to haul 2k 16bit caches for ACES -or- 4k DPX...
The disk sub-system is faultless, stable and functional.
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:51 pmby Jules Bushell
I read somewhere that Intel are doing great fast PCIe SSD cards. Intel 750 series with 2.5GB/sec+ read times.
Jules
Re: Which RAID card for 4K uncompressed?
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Sun Jul 19, 2015 6:28 pmby John Burton
I've got 8 drives in a RAID 5 on an Areca 1883i that runs about 1 GB/s read and write. Depending on how full the drives are. That's on cheapo Barracuda drives, which have served me well. I believe the card maxes at 12Gb/s or 1.5GB/s. And i think you need about 850 MB/s for uncompressed 4k DPX sequences. So it's close. I know they make an X version that you can get more drives on which would = more speed...