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

[Gerhard Kuhn]

One more thought on this.  A raid set up actually makes for less secure 
data since the data is spread over multiple drives acting as one and if 
one goes south so does all the data on all the drives.
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 12:17  AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

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