Best raid drive for uncompressed 10bit HD?

Anyone know what sort of Raid drive I would need to ingest HD at uncompressed material.
I know I need somewhere in the area of 350mbps/sec speed but can't seem to find any near that spec. So not sure where to look, any suggestions would be great.
Thanks, Mungo

For 10 bit 4:2:2 you only need to roll like 200MB per sec. It's data rate is around 167 or so depending on the codec/capture card.
SATA drives write in packets so you need higher rates because you might slow down for a sec (look at the graph in Speed Test apps) Whereas SCSI and other drives stream their data... and cost more.
I use the little G-Tech G-speed fiber drives, more money but you can share them on a SAN later if you add a machine. If you will never do that, then go with a speedy sata version. Look at their ES series. I've used 2 of those in a raid 50 with great results. Note: 4 sata drives in a raid 5 or raid 3 will not reliably do uncompressed HD in most situations. Raid 0 is different of course. Now, get Googling.

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