LaCie 2Big Quadra Hard drive for Pro Video and Photography

http://www.dvestore.com/brands/LaCie.html Here we see the LaCie 2Big Quadra performing in RAID 1 and 0 "Mixed" mode. A great combination of speed and mirroring with an acceptable loss in capacity. In this instance we're using a 3TB model - that's Two 1.5TB disks inside the enclosure. After switching to "Mixed Mode" on the back we're able to get 1.5TB of "Fast" storage and a 750GB Partition of "Safe" storage. The Safe storage is mirrored on both drives, in case one fails, you have a total back up. The fast partition would be lost, so knowing this, you can use the Fast drive for working files, and the Safe drive for backup.
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From the manual:

In Mixed mode, the two physical disks are combined so that two
logical volumes mount simultaneously on the desktop:
✦✦ One Safe volume (RAID 1) where data is automatically mirrored
on each physical disk. This volume uses 50% of the
available capacity of each disk (the available capacity cannot
exceed 50% of the lowest-capacity single disk).
Important info: If one physical disk fails, the data of the
SAFE volume is available on the second disk. Only 25% of full
capacity is protected by mirroring. In this case, data on the Fast
(RAID 0) volume will be lost.
✦✦ One Fast volume (RAID 0) enables the user to work with the
high speed of RAID 0.

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[red2082]

Guy, please explain this. How can you achieve +200MB/sec speeds when the specs of this product says it achieves 165MB/sec through eSATA in RAID 0, using the Lacie controller card? What am I missing? Does the total capacity of the drives factor in?

[dvestore]

@red2082 Click the link in the more info. "burst transfer rates as high as 225MB/sec" you'll need the LaCie 4 port SATA PCIe card and a fast computer. Their web site is being conservative on the product specs.

[DiabolicHeart]

I'm not sure which one should I get, LaCie Hard Disk Quadra (black) or LaCie D2 Quadra (silver) -- I plan to use it to install tons of samples that I will run on sequencers like Logic, as well as that it would be where the audio recordings/files go.

So could anyone give me some ideas/suggestions please?

[raftoled]

Does anyone knows on the LaCie 2big Network 2TB model, if i create just one volume with RAID 1, if i will have the full disk size. Then i would come up with 1TB mirrorred drive , am i right ?

Thanks

[fridrikur]

Hi it is me again. I wanted to ask the uploader if you prefer the lacie harddisk over the glyph harddisk? The latter has been designed for audio and video production. But since the lacie uses the oxford chipset (24 I believe) will this make the lacie just as good for the same tasks, not being backup but audio and video production,.`?

[dvestore]

@FilmAdventureRomance Ah, the drive needs to connected via a SATA card to get the fastest speed.

[fridrikur]

Oh I forgot the bottom line. Being that he replaces the green color with a screen capture of his mac running the program shown. This video footage resides in a different video track than the footage of him talking. He then uses chromakey on one of them. I think you can guess which now.

[fridrikur]

It is very easy and yet still creative. He has a big green cloth on his wall. Later when he is editing the video footage he removes the color of the green cloth by using a technology called chroma key. Most video editing software support this great feature. I recommend sony vegas pro 9

[EclipseEDM]

You ashould know the difference between Mac OS & Windows and Mac-PC that comes with Mac OS. It's just dumb to say 'software for your PC'

I'ts software for WINDOWS...

[rpwent]

Looks like a great product for my wish list. I'm also interested in a Youtube video issue. What format and parameters did you use to upload to Youtube? The video was the largest and highest quality I've seen yet on Youtube