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CalDigit - Reviews
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Geeky Mac (CalDigit HDPro vs other RAID storage)
By Jared Picune Creativecow Leader
Editor/President of Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
CalDigit HDPro - Geek Factor 5 
When I first saw the CalDigit HDPro, I have to admit I was awestruck. Crazy fast performance with massive amounts of storage, it was love at first sight. Then reality set it, there had to be a catch. What did this thing cost? Well, it turns out the cost was not the catch. The HDPro is relatively cheap especially compared to what I paid to the...
Just like any project, I had to start by getting video onto they system. I captured 20 minutes of 1080i 10 Bit uncompressed high definition video. The HDPro worked without any issues at all...
With a little online research I found that CalDigit is using a technology called ASTT (Active Sustained Transfer Technology). Basically it means that the data rate is sustained consistently for optimal transfer rates. So if the RAID sees a big group of large files coming it readies itself ensuing a fast and reliable transfer...
considering the cost and the performance, the HDPro is a clear winner for any present or future edit suite...
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CreativeMac Reviews: CalDigit HDPro
By Kevin P McAuliffe
I used the HDPro for a week for various projects I was working on, and never once did I have an issue with frames dropping. I mostly work in 1080i 8-bit Uncompressed (which, when the HDPro was empty, gave me about 4.5 hours of storage space), so I figured I'd digitize and work with some footage in 1080i 10-bit and 720p 10-bit to see if I could get the HDPro to drop some frames, and to my surprise, I didn't have one problem, and not one hiccup. This unit slid into my production work flow seamlessly, and if you didn't tell me that I was using a PCI-e connection instead of fibre, I would never have known it. How It Performed: 10 (out of 10)
I was apprehensive before I did this review, as I was always under the impression that for uncompressed HD, fibre was the only way to go, but after using the HDPro from Caldigit, just give me my HD capture card, and my HDPro, and I'll be all set to do my HD onlines without a worry in the world.
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Kevin P McAuliffe is currently a Senior Video Editor working in HD post production in Toronto, Canada. He has been in the television industry for 12 years, and spends his days onlining on a Final Cut Pro HD. Kevin's high definition onlining credit list includes concerts for Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, Sum41, Paul Anka, Il Divo and Pussycat Dolls, to name a few.
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Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group Reviews: HDPro 4.0TB
By Shane Ross
311 Write and 402 Read....I captured uncompressed 8-bit 720p...no problems. Uncompressed 10-bit 720p...no problems. Uncompressed 10-bit HD...passed again without one dropped frame.
OK, time to abuse this thing. Again I set it up to capture uncompressed 10-bit, and about 5 minutes in...I YANKED A DRIVE OUT! It kept merrily match capturing...not missing a beat. When it was done I saved my project and set about fixing what I intentionally broke. I pushed the drive back in and went into the RAID SHIELD software and unlocked the drive and the software went about rebuilding the RAID. Again, that took about 3 hours. But the footage I captured was still intact and played fine.
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Shane Ross is a freelance editor residing in Los Angeles. He edits shows for The History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and Nickelodeon.
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Bob Zelin (Creative Cow Reviews: S2VR HD 2.5TB)
By Bob Zelin
CreativeCOW's Bob Zelin tests a Cal Digit S2VRHD with a host card for a PCI-X computer, and a PCI-E computer. He used the incredible AJA Kona System Test, to evaluate the drive speeds. He was determined to 'break it.' Did he? No. He determined that...''If you want to do uncompressed HD, for a fraction of the price of an Apple Xserve RAID, or other hi end SCSI or Fibre Channel drive arrays, THIS IS YOUR BOX.'' ...
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Bob Zelin is an old cranky video engineer that got his start in the professional audio business in 1977. By 1981, he was fired so many times, that no one wanted to hire him, so he started his own company in 1982. Lucky for him, he became the first freelance AVID technician in New York City, when the AVID first came out, and has since designed and installed thousands of studios in New York, Florida, and LA. His desperation to stay employed started the "AVID facility" mindset, which replaced conventional on line rooms ?to the dismay of countless linear video editors. This was completely against the original concept of the AVID, which was for a Media Composer system to be a nice, simple, self contained package, that could do off line editing.
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LITTLE FROG IN HIGH DEF (S2VR Duo and FirewireVR Review)
By Shane Ross
The S2VR Duo is a solid unit that retains drive performance, even while nearly full. This allows me to work with multiple streams of DVCPRO HD (where a firewire drive would not) and allows for more realtime effects. I recommend this unit to everyone who edits DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD, XDCAM and even uncompressed SD formats....
the Firewire VR has another advantage over all other Firewire raids. It is daisy-chainable and doesn't lose drive performance. Other firewire raid units lose performance once you daisy chain them...
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Shane Ross is a broadcast television editor in Hollywood.
He is a documentary and narrative editor and has edited shows for the History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and Nickelodeon¡Kplus a handful of short films, spec commercials and demo reels.
He has since worked on WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK, AMERICAS FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, JUDGE JUDY, EVEN STEVENS, THAT¡¦S SO RAVEN and countless History Channel and Discovery Channel shows.
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Geeky Mac (An Exciting Look at the CalDigit S2VR Duo)
By Jared Picune Creativecow Leader
Editor/President of Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
CalDigit S2VR Duo - Geek Factor 5
The CalDigit S2VR Duo system is a stunningly sleek and powerful RAID, perfect for the demanding Final Cut Pro editor.
...The design fits right in with the current Apple hardware, so everything in your suite can stay consistent...
S2VR Duo is competitively priced, and packed with many extra features. I think this is what makes CalDigit stand out from the rest...
The speed of S2VR Duo is rather impressive. Instead running a traditional read write test, I decided to jump right into the real world testing. I started with a 10 bit uncompressed video clip, and played back in Final Cut Pro. It played nicely, as to be expected. Then I added another track and it held up nicely without a dropped frame. I quickly found the Final Cut’s RT Extreme was my limiting factor...
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Toms Hardware (The CalDigit S2VR Duo RAID Enclosure)
By Don Woligroski, Shelton Romhanyi
...the S2VR's RAID0 performance is solid. It simply outclasses every external drive solution out there, with great read/write transfer performance...,
I have to say that I like the S2VR Duo; it has a good, clean design, and delivers solidly in the areas that it targets...
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Digital Video Editing (First Look: CalDigit S2VR Duo 500GB RAID Storage)
By John Virata
...Digital Photographers will enjoy the protection that the S2VR Duo offers their image collections. The system is relatively easy to set up and is fairly fast for an external solution. It has a rated read speed of 148MB second...,
For video editors with the fastest PCI Express-based computers, the company offers the FASTA-4e that supports 10-bit uncompressed HD, 8 bit uncompressed HD, DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD, 8-bit and 10-bit SD video...
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Larry Jordan (Reviewing a CalDigit 500GB S2VR Duo SATA RAID)
By Larry Jordan
...Three things impressed me about this unit:
1. It's speed -- SATA really is fast
2. It's ruggedness -- this got manhandled in several cities and held up great
3. It's simplicity -- two cables, one installation disk and you're ready to run.
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Larry Jordan is an Apple-certified trainer in digital media, certified for all of Apple's professional video applications. He is an award-winning producer, director, and editor with more than 25 years of experience working in corporate, broadcast network, and Hollywood DVD productions—from newscasts to documentaries to dramas. A member of both the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, he is a post-production consultant to a wide-variety of Los Angeles broadcast and production companies.
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Bare Feats (CalDigit FASTA-2e PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter)
By rob-ART morgan
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We think the CalDigit FASTA-2e SATA 3G PCI-e host adapter will fill the need very well for those who only want to add one or two fast external drives to their Dual-Core or Quad-Core Power Mac. The $79 price point certainly is attractive if you don't have the need for more than two drives.
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Computer Power User (CalDigit FASTA-2e PCI-e SATA 3G Host Adapter)
By Heavy Gear, December 2006 ?Vol.6 Issue 12, Page(s) 24 in print issue
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The S2VR Duo has a custom aluminum enclosure, which resembles Apple’s Macintosh G5 case
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users who need a large-capacity, high-performance, external storage device, the S2VR Duo would be a fine choice ...
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Bare Feats (CalDigit SATA 3G Host Adapters and Dual Bay Enclosure for Mac Pro and MacBook Pro)
By rob-ART morgan
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One useful feature of the S2VR Duo enclosure is the ability to stripe the two drives at the box level
(true hardware RAID). Rather than using a physical switch or LCD display, the configuration is
controlled via the CalDigit S2VR Manager. You can configure the enclosure to be JBOD, RAID 0
("Performance") or RAID 1 ("Protected")
...CalDigit's host adapters and enclosures are strong contenders and the company has a strong commitment to meet the needs of "professional grade" Mac users...Read More...
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DV Magazine October 2007 - CalDigit HDPro
By Ned Soltz
An 8-bay RAID0, 1, 5, and 6 solution, it can attain 400MBps in RAID 5 with capacities from 2TB up to 8TB, costing less than $2 per gig (including host interface card and all the accessories). The HDPro has a PCIe direct attach as a storage interface that connects to the host and RAID controller at up to 20Gbps.
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Ned Soltz is an author, editor, educator, and consultant on all things related to the Mac digital video world. Moving from the PC world some 15 years ago, he bought his first Mac SE and never looked back.
He began editing independent projects in Adobe Premiere but switched to Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0 the day after it was introduced at NAB. He became one of the founding members of the LA Final Cut Pro Users Group, the largest FCP User Group in the world.
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Danish "Audiovisual Media" Magazine, October 2007 - CalDigit FireWireVR
By Finn Nesgaard - Chief Editor
"One would suspect that this could be something that Apple is responsible for in terms of design... And Apple is also a brand name often associated with very high quality. This Box though, - is not from Apple , but from a American company by the name of CalDigit...
Inside the Firewire VR as the box is called, there is two harddiscs with 500 GB capacity each, and looking at the back of the box we find a luxurious amount of connections: USB 2, ordinary Firewire and two firewire 800 ports that allow us to connect several units in a chain. A little mechanical switch that is turned with the enclosed screwdriver has 4 settings: Protected, performance, concatenated and JBOD...
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Finn Nesgaard is the chief editor of AVM AudioVisuelle which has more than 7,500 subscribers from video and audio professionals, semi-professionals, students to people working in the media business.
More about Finn Nesgaard and Audiovisual Media Magazine...
Finn Nesgaard is also a member of the awards committee of European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA-Awards)
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www.caldigit.com |
sales@caldigit.com |
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