G-Tech Drive with Adobe Preimere CS5

Question

Hello every one,
I would like to ask this question hope to find good answer for it, im sure there are alot other people would like to find out as will.
dose G-tech Drive makes Pr or Ae fast in randring and speed of the editing?
if yes which one of these drive will be good for Dv, HD, 4K video.
http://www.ebuyer.com/176298-iomega-ultramax-plus-4tb-external-hard-drive-hi-speed-usb-fir ewire-34537#product-description
http://www.ebuyer.com/239623-hitachi-4tb-g-tech-g-raid-gen4-external-hard-drive-2-bays-0g0 0274
Thank you

Answer 1

I'm not Harm, but given today's very high prices for hard drives, you will not be able to get what your video content requires for anywhere close to $600 total. In fact, you will need to at least quadruple that budget - to at least $2,500 just for the storage system. This is because that amount now buys you only three disks and no controller at today's overinflated prices - and some of today's current production 7200 RPM hard drives fall below 70 MB/s on the innermost tracks. As such, with typical Western Digital hard drives, three disks, even in a single aid0 array, will net you a minimum transfer speed that's less than one-third the rate required for RED4K.
Barring that, the best that you can do right now (given that extremely tight budget) is to forego an external RAID altogether and simply buy four 1TB SATA 7200 RPM hard drives - and configure each pair of them in a two-disk aid0 array (you would have two 2-disk aid0 arrays total) on the motherboard's onboard SATA controller.
But if you really want your system to handle RED 4K content, as Harm stated, you really need a minimum sustained disk transfer rate of 600 MB/s just to even handle three or more layers of such content smoothly. Unfortunately, due to the fact that all mechanical hard drives drop off in sequential transfer rate on the inner portions of the disk, you will need at least 12 to 16 hard drives plus a discrete RAID controller. At current inflated prices (even here in the U.S.) plus the fact that many resellers are limiting hard drive purchases to only one disk at a time, that's going to be extremely tough (if not impossible) to pull off. As a rough estimate, using the $126.28 shipped price at Newegg for a 1TB Hitachi 7K1000.D hard drive (one of the fastest current 7200 RPM hard drives in sequential speed performance) as an example, the required disks alone cost a grand total of more than $1,500. (If you have slightly older disks with 500 GB per platter such as the Samsung F3 1TB, you may need all of 16 disks just to even achieve that minimum level of performance - and 16 F3s now cost well over $2,600 total, making them a relatively poor value compared to the 12 Hitachis.) Add to that the $1,050 cost of the 16-port Areca ARC-1882iX-16 card (or $1,250 fior the 24-port version of the same card), and you'll end up blowing $2,765 for the 24-port card plus 12 Hitachi drives (the minimum that's required to handle RED4K smoothly). With the Samsung disks, you'd end blowing almost $4,000 for that minimum required disk setup.
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