[MacDV] Re: Any advantages to RAID for DV?

[Gerhard Kuhn]

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 12:00  AM, Steven Rogers wrote:

> When a frame gets dropped, its because it didn't get written to the 
> drive. No amount of RAID will fix that. Dropped frames are not because 
> the drive "forgets" the frame after its written, but because the frame 
> doesn't make it to the drive. Most RAID configurations are slower - 
> sacrificing speed for data security. Not what you want for DV.
>
> SR
That is not so.  In a RAID setup multiple drives act as one drive and 
their combined sustained throughput is the throughput for the RAID 
drives.  This was necessary in the days of slow drives today it should 
no longer be needed.

>
Gerhard Kuhn
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