Topic: Do You LISTEN to Your Tapes?

[jpschust]

writing- im thinking about adding a RAID controller to my system to stack some more HD's in there.  im most worried about doing audio work on those

[nic]

the drawback with RAID 0 is if 1 drive goes down, you loose the data on the second drive.
the data is written in "stripes" across both drives simultaneously, faster than writing the same data to 1 drive...the same data is not written on both dives.

RAID 3/5 offers the writing speed of RAID 0 with a "parity" drive in case 1 drive fails - hopefully not the parity drive!

[jpschust]

let me get to my ultimate question- which raid controller card should i go with for doing 24 tracks of audio at once? :-)

[nic]

let me get to my ultimate question- which raid controller card should i go with for doing 24 tracks of audio at once? :-)

have no idea which is best.
I've only used Adaptec cards(varying over the years),
BUT those cards were already lying around the shop...

have had decent performance running NT4's built in software RAID;
Win2000 and XP Pro both have this built in as well

havent used Apples RAID solutions(hardware or software)

[jpschust]

cool, thanks for the help!

[chuckcage]

ProTools hates RAID...  Worth mentioning!

C

[jpschust]

yah i know, though i know it can be configured to deal with it