Thursday, January 31, 2008

Let’s Play “20 Questions” About Red Drives…

Let’s play “20 Questions” about Red Drives…

Jarred Land announced on Reduser the other week that Red Drives were shipping.

For those not keeping score, the Red Drives is the hard drive recording solution for the Red One camera. Up until Red Drives shipped, your only recording option was the special high speed CF cards (compact flash) recording officially 4 1/2 minutes of 4K at 24p apiece *. Since only one Red CF card can be loaded at a time, this was roughly the equivalent of a 400 foot film load. Survivable for steadicam work, a nonstarter for sitdown interviews.

That changes with the release of the Red Drives - you can record over TWO HOURS of 4K footage to the Red Drives, and many more hours of 2K footage (details below).

The Red Drives are comprised of two 160GB 2.5” mechanism hard drives set up in a RAID 0 (striped) configuration. This doubles the capacity and speed versus a regular drive....and also doubles the chances of failure - if one drive fails, you’d lose ALL the data on the pair due to how information is split between the two.

I emailed Ted Schilowitz, Red’s Leader of the Rebellion, a bunch of questions about the Red Drives, here’s what he had to say:

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