I was wondering what kind of hard drive setup people are running. I have three 74GB 10,000RPM hard drives over a OSX software RAID. I was thinking about getting a external G-Speed es setup until I ran a hard drive benchmark test and the basic setup is not that much faster than my current RAID.

So who has a raid setup and do you like it? You can download the "AJA System" from the link below.

My system with the settings of 1920x1080 8-Bit & Files Size 2GB scored 164.MB on the Write & 108.8MB on the read.

www.aja.com/products/software/

Andrew Madson
www.andrewmadson.com

We have a built from scratch Serial ATA Raid box 2.5 TB, which then connects with one cable to a Sonnet Tempo card.

www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_sata_e4p.html

It's extremely fast, and can handle anything we throw at it. It's even been able to push editing DVCPRO HD over ethernet, CAT6 network.

Sounds like a cool setup you have going there. Are you doing a Raid0, Raid5,or other? Would you mind running the AJA benchmark software with the same setting I used? That way I can get an idea of your speed. No pressure if you don't want too.

Thanks!

Ya, post the software link here and I'll download it and do it, then I'll post the results. Although the drive is pretty full, hopefully that won't affect the performance.

This is the aja raid test utility correct?

www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_System_Test_v601.zip

Yep, that is the software that G-Speed and myself used for the benchmark. I used settings of 1920x1080 8-Bit & Files Size 2GB.

THANKS!

cscturulo, did you get a chance to run that benchmark test? thanks!