Raid type

[Themis Gyparis]

Hello everyone

What type of Raid would you consider to be the safest for editing? I've heard a lot but I'd like to hear from some who have actually had personal experience in that area

Thanks a lot in advance

[shueardm]

IF you are ediing in standard definition then just use RAID 1 (mirror)
If you are editing in high definition you might want to try RAID 5 (stripped with redundancy) but you'd need 4 or 5 drives at least to keep the speed up.

[opensource]

raid 1 or raid 5 , yes are good but if you have extra $ buy a real card for raid , the one on your motherboard work, but is it very safe ?

we , for edit we use fast raid 0 (not safe).
we backup on a linux server (raid 5 card) for the "short time" (10 week max) and on dd usb2 /dvd after 10 week .

good luck

[GrassValley_BH]

A RAID attached to an add-in card is more portable than one attached to a motherboard controller because it's much more difficult to pull out the motherboard controller than it is to remove the add-in card.

A RAID managed as a single entity by a hardware RAID controller (ie, like a NAS box that attaches by eSATA) is the most portable.

[asoodmand]

I use raid 0 with 4 hard disk for fastest performance to edit HD. mirro raid is not qualified for video editing. Raid 5 writing speed is equal to mirro raid. So Exporting time will increase and my have some problem capturing 3 channel with dv capture. but raid 5 reading speed is almost equal to raid 0. so its on your risk. raid 0 fastest performance and raid 5 slower but more safe.