Guest Durrty Boi Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 right...i wanna run 4 or 5 external hard drives on the same computerbut i dont want to use USB or Firewire, i wanna use eSATA coz i need faster speedsnow the next bitill need to run them all in a RAID-0 or JBOD configuration (look up RAID on wikipedia if you dont know)coz i need to squeeze out every last ounce of data transfer speed outta themBUT, i dont want to run 5 different power cables for the hard drives, plus the computer, plus about 5 other devices i'll have on location, i wanna have the bus powered, either through USB or FIrewire, but dont wanna use them for transfering the data.can i use the USB or Firewire to power the drives then transfer the data through eSATA?i looked all over google.thankin you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLovin' Jones Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Thing is...If YOU don't know...How the hell are WE supposed to know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniko Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Thing is...If YOU don't know...How the hell are WE supposed to know?truest stories, your the bill gates of bits manif i could help i would Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwKwaRD Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 that whole post left me BAFFLED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackaDaBerry Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 NOin fact you would need a server sized tower to do what you want....ur best bet is a NAS configured to raid 0.....most of which run on pata and not sata...i just clocked u said esata which i've never heard of.....i'm slippin on my geeky stuff of late i must play catch up.....why do you want to use external drives aswell.....thats the most expensive way of doing things... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest G-dub Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 *leaves topic scratching head* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 *leaves topic scratching head* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 *leaves topic is state of shock* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackaDaBerry Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Why don't you build a server and be done with it...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRiMETiME Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 [Wiley] Sorry, Sorry, Pardon, What [/Wiley] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest M12 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 join a nerd forum man.its obvious your long overdue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Durrty Boi Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Why don't you build a server and be done with it......coz i need it portableits to film directly off a camera onto a PC skipping HDV or DV compression that messes up the imageto do that i need to write at around 200mb/s to get the best qualityor around 125mb/s for lower qualityi cant build a whole server coz i need to move it around from place to place so it would be quite long to take a whole server around.eSATA is external SATA that has a theoritical write speed of 3GB/s but practically it gets around 50mb/s so if i use around 4 or 5 in a RAID-0 config it should increase the write speed because the bits are shared randomly across all drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Durrty Boi Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 join a nerd forum man.its obvious your long overdueif you can find me one id be greatful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Can I suggest one thing? Invest in a 1TB NAS or however big you can get these now. As for the whole can I power 5 drives of USB or FIREWIRE.Answer is MAYBE.. But I wouldn't suggest it. Remember the old skool USB modem that was self powered.The reason they was so sh*t. Is because they required more power than what a PC can feed them.So go for my 1st point.I'll answer this better when I'm free from looking for a new Job. [EDIT]Just seen the responses above me. So I don't know if my suggestion is vaiable. But have a look n eways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jack X Supreme Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Join AvForums. They'll know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maniko Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Why don't you build a server and be done with it......coz i need it portableits to film directly off a camera onto a PC skipping HDV or DV compression that messes up the imageto do that i need to write at around 200mb/s to get the best qualityor around 125mb/s for lower qualityi cant build a whole server coz i need to move it around from place to place so it would be quite long to take a whole server around.eSATA is external SATA that has a theoritical write speed of 3GB/s but practically it gets around 50mb/s so if i use around 4 or 5 in a RAID-0 config it should increase the write speed because the bits are shared randomly across all drivesohhhhh i know what thats for now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BATTY BOY BUM BANDIT Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Im hacking into the mainframe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackaDaBerry Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Do you realise that what you want to do can basically only be portable in the back of a van....lolHave you seen the size of a HD rig.....but anyway i reckon the best thing you can do is thisBuy a nas or a Gigabit Nas enclosure and put 5 750GB Hard drives in it.configure that to Raid0 - if you use cat 7 network cable and your pc has a gigabyte (sp) network card in it you should have no problem with transfer speeds and it should be about as portable as you're gonna get...Hope this helps....I've drawn this solution out of my head and i'm tired so i'm not sure of the practicalities... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest M12 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 join a nerd forum man.its obvious your long overdueif you can find me one id be greatful http://www.experts-exchange.com/helped me resurrect my pc from a blue screen of death. typed the error message into google from another pc and followed the steps someone had set.and seriously why do you need that much storage? whats wrong with deleting things you hardly watch or use. what use can you seriously have for that much space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Durrty Boi Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 i checked the NAS systemsthe terrastation is about ã400 with 4 250GB drivesif i RAID them then ill jus have 250GB to usethe external drive ting is abit more economicalthe rig aint that bigPC built into a flight case with the hard drives and a 35m HDMI cable from camera to PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Buy a nas or a Gigabit Nas enclosure and put 5 750GB Hard drives in it.Why get 750GB when there's 1TB out there... (PRICEY) though But he will need to STORE them in his fridge freeze still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Durrty Boi Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 join a nerd forum man.its obvious your long overdueif you can find me one id be greatful http://www.experts-exchange.com/helped me resurrect my pc from a blue screen of death. typed the error message into google from another pc and followed the steps someone had set.and seriously why do you need that much storage? whats wrong with deleting things you hardly watch or use. what use can you seriously have for that much space.its for filminguncompressed HD takes about 11GB a minuteill be using compressed at about 600mb-2gb a minuteso i need all the space i can getand safe for that site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackaDaBerry Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 you can build your own nas with the mini itx boards i told you about before....on a real it's more flexible than a pre built one....and with it being linux u can configure it more.....u can build a nas with a spare pc actually.....there tutorials all over the net for it aswell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dear Diary Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 right...i wanna run 4 or 5 external hard drThis is where I stopped, and would have pressed backspace if I didnt make this reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuLu Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 *leaves topic scratching head . thinking where is the translator at * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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