so you can see james is editing away here in final cut or at least pretending
to i'm gonna go ahead and rip out one of our drives
have you ever walked into a coffee shop in the middle of the day and been
shocked to see how many people appear to be using it as their office well that's
because there are a ton of freelancers out there who do everything from
pitching clients to writing scripts to editing video often all on one portable
machine but sometimes especially if you're editing video or even photos you
need more storage space than a macbook pro or any laptop for that matter can
offer that's where this puppy comes in so we've configured our test device here
with over 100 terabytes of rapid access storage
actually 120 terabytes to be precise and only a single Thunderbolt 3 cable is
required to connect it to our laptop oh and did i
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so when we first set out to build our 100 terabyte laptop the first thing we
needed was a pc or a mac with Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 gives us
both the performance and the ease of use that we need to make this a legitimately
viable solution instead of just a weird tech demo the second thing we needed was
a das now a daz is not to be confused with a
nas which is short for network attached storage those things are great we use
them all the time here at our office they can be accessed remotely and they
can be used by multiple computers so therefore multiple users simultaneously
the problem though is that they are slower especially in terms of access
latency so our das or direct attached
storage device is an eureka arc 8050
t3-12 now there are four six and eight drive
variants that are also available but we chose this one because we wanted a
really flashy headline like 100 terabytes
the other main feature that we wanted was of course Thunderbolt 3. so it comes
with the included Thunderbolt cable that you see right here which gives us 40
gigabit per second peak transfer speeds between our devices and the ability to
daisy chain using the second Thunderbolt 3 port keep
in mind though that we wouldn't use this capability to add more storage boxes on
top of the one we have instead we'd rely on this right here this is an sf 8644
port and it's a lot cooler than it sounds because it lets us take just kind
of a dummy secondary enclosure and link
our original one to it and use the controller that's in here as well as the
Thunderbolt 3 chip here to allow this one to manage the whole thing as one big
array so inside our eureka enclosure is
an lsi hardware raid processor also
called a radon chip or rock so it's higher performance compared to
software raid in many cases but could be
harder to recover data from as compared to software aid in the event of an error
and that was actually something that we did experience with hardware raid in the
past inside here is also two gigs of ecc RAM
which causes about a two percent performance hit but allows us to detect
and correct data that was improperly read or written
now let's talk about our drives so this unit is actually sold disk list
but b h who generously provided our unit for this video offers pre-loaded systems
if you for whatever reason have trouble finding the nas optimized drives that
are out there and installing them which you shouldn't because it's a pretty
simple process so you basically take your four screws screw them into the
bottom of these rails and then there's a back plane in the back of the unit that
you slide it into and lock your drive in place but there are ways to make
mistakes like they do have mounting holes for two and a half inch drives but
i wouldn't recommend using those in a unit like this because you'll be compromising your capacity and your
performance anyway we actually prefer
the empty version because this is cool you don't need to fill all of the bays
right off the bat on many dashes if you were to add more
drives later it would mean that you would need to reformat and recreate your
raid and that's pretty inconvenient because the whole point of having a
device like this is this is like your storage locker for
all of your stuff where are you going to put it all while you reformat it
ours on the other hand has what's called online volume expansion so that
additional capacity can be used to enlarge the last volume set or create
another volume set now as for mixing and matching drives that's something that
you run into when you add some drives now and you upgrade later some people
actually encourage using different makes and models of disks as long as they keep
the same spindle RPM so that's to say how fast the disc actually spins within
the drive and the same claimed capacity
so the arguments for this are that it reduces the risk of systemic failure so
that's to say like a flaw that affects all particular units of of this drive
for example another thing that's nice about adding drives over time is that
they won't all be the same age if you look at the way that hard drives fail
over time it tends to be a lot of them then very few then it ramps up
significantly as they get older so if they're all the same age you can imagine
that they would all start to drop off at around the same time with all of that
said if you've got known good drives
there is a performance advantage to using ones that are all the same if
you're striping data across them which we are doing because we're looking for
not just massive capacity but also high
performance for our project we went with seagate's 12 terabyte iron wolf pros
they have a great balance of price and performance and they deliver the
capacity that we need in order to hit our goal now we could have gone with
something more expensive like a sas drive our das actually does support that
but for this kind of a deployment there's not going to be a performance
benefit so we're going to stick with these sort of prosumer grade devices
instead the last thing we need is power
now this is just a standard power cord but i would strongly recommend for a
device like this either getting the sold separately battery backup or connecting
it to a ups so that it doesn't suddenly lose power in the event of a power
outage all right
so that's that's it now we are ready to go through the setup
process to set up your machine download the
installer from the eureka website and follow the steps
after restarting launch the storage manager to configure your raid now there
are a ton of different options in here but we're going to choose quick create
and raid 5 plus spare this is going to stripe our data across 11 of our drives
including one parity drive and it will leave one spare drive available just in
case one of our other 11 decides to kick the bucket this way it will rebuild
automatically in the event of a drive failure now you'll have to wait some
number of hours for your array to initialize it ended up taking about 10
hours in our case so now that everything is completely set up and ready to go you
can see we're running off of battery here but we take our single Thunderbolt
3 cable plug it into our system
our array fires up we are charging our macbook
and theoretically we're going to see
our external storage volume pop up right around here so one of the few disk speed
tests for mac is actually the black magic disk speed test which is intended
to find out how fast a particular volume is in the
context of what kind of footage it can
handle so i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to select our target drive let's
go ahead and see wow look at it go
not too shabby
just shy of two gigabytes per second on
both reads and writes which results in a completely green lit up blackmagic disk
speed test we can handle everything up to
4k 60fps content at 10 bit 422 but
that's not actually much of a surprise to us because 2 gigabytes per second is
well in excess of even the data rates of our 8k cameras so you would be able to
handle any kind of footage under the sun using
a connection like this to an array like that
for our next trick we're going to take a look at final cut pro x now i am far
from an expert on the use of this software so we brought in one of our editors to
give me your honest impressions any any thoughts on the performance of this
timeline it's a multi-cam clip so
is that demanding typically usually yeah
it feels good feels responsive more or less yeah any complaints whatsoever can
you find any problem i want to know about the problems i mean to be clear
i'm not actually expecting you to find a problem okay yeah yeah
good we're editing off of this and it's like
two gigabytes a second read and write so we are expecting it to perform well i
was just hoping maybe you could find some some flaw in the machine
no looks good very snappy yeah cool no perfect so overall this is not a cheap
solution but we're really happy with the experience it charges our laptop it
gives us blazing fast performance and of course
like any hardware raid enclosure it gives us some fault tolerance so you can
see james is editing away here in final cut or at least pretending to i'm gonna
go ahead and rip out one of our drives it's gonna freak the heck out
but we're still editing baby pretty cool right
anyway it gets even better go ahead and close down final cut
and can you drag that drive to the garbage there
when it's time to go out and hit the road
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