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  1. *Update on this topic* All seems good with my original idea. You will need an appropriate HBA card and cable to interface with the LTO tape drive. In most cases this will be over a SAS interface. Older drives may use an SCSI connection and newer drives use Thunderbolt. There's two types of HBA to look out for, xi and xe for example: LSI 9205-8e or LSI 9205-8i. These dictate where the connection ports are on the card, External or Internal. This itself is either dictated by the LTO drive you purchased or will determine it. (One to install in a case, as I wish to do or one that is in an external enclosure). My issue with adapting from one SAS connection to another seems not to be a problem, so going from 8482 - 8087 would be fine, given the restrictions of the cable lenght. There doesn't seem to be an issue regarding Bios detection, although I can't say the same for driver support etc, it could auto install for all I know at this point. LTO5 and up supports LTFS (Linear Tape File System) and seems to be more accessible to Windows that I had first thought - this is not to say it wouldn't be easier on Linux or OSX. So basically, I'm going to plow ahead with this and see what I end up with. If anyone else out there is thinking about doing this as well (not that there will be many, haa), I will update the post when I've moved on to the next stages. This is also the thread on the DataHorders SubReddit (Thank you Catsrules for the advice on that): https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/fuf2fz/new_to_lto_how_to_build_lto5_archiving_pc/ Also, this video from LTT explains what LTO is for anyone who's not sure what I was on about to begin with:
  2. The plan is to move active footage to my archive HDDs and current archived Data to the Tape. Camera > Camera SSD (samsung T5) > Edit project from T5 > Backup to Archive HDD > Backup to LTO tape I'd rather not have a bunch of HDDs knocking around for archive is all, so I'm not too concered about the saving difference. We all know the data storage principles of 3 copies, 3 locations, 3 mediums etc, so adding tape to my current set up adds the long term element. Is there a specific reason you mentioned not keeping the data just on tape?
  3. The LTO5 Tapes are 1.5TB a peice, but can be bought for £14 ($17/$18). Each tape can store more than one of my Camera's recording format of 1tb, so it's perfectly suited. The older LTO5 drives are can be purchased quite cheap themselves £140 - £250 ($170 - $309) so yes there is an upfront cost, but considering my internal HDDs of my main edit rig are maxed, the additional storage in archival format makes more sense than adding HDDs to my edit rig or using a UBS - Sata dock and shelving the HDDs. It's a complicated soluition and not a use case many would have i suspect...:P
  4. Hi there, thanks for your reply. I'm not really looking to build a NAS, as I have no requirement for it to be attached to the network. I did think about a NAS as an alternative, but ultimately it still requires a lot of investment in HDDs, which are not as reliable of LTO tapes for archiving. Thanks
  5. I'm wanting to get an LTO drive to allow me to offload large amounts of Video file at a time for archival purposes and free up some space on my HDDs which. I seem to be coming across conflicting information in my research and wondered if anyone had any experience or insight into how the SAS protocol works and how it could be used for my purposes. Ideally I would like to get an LTO5 Drive and internally mount it to a Case with a 5.25" bay (I have an old Antec case which should do fine for this). The drive seems to have an SFF 8484 connector (which I believe is a backplane connector for when the drive is installed in a server/autoloader). I am struggling to find a suitable HBA to connect it to, I had found an LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA 9200-8i that looks to have a pair of SFF 8087 connectors and thought that an adapter from 8484 - 8087 would allow the drive to be detected and functional, but the sellers I have asked seem not to be sure. One also mentioned that they doubted that the HBA would be detected by the PC's Bios...but gave no reason as to why...is there something I'm missing here? I know that using (particularly older) LTO drives isn't exactly easy in Windows, but I do have access to an older Mac Pro if that makes more sense or of course am happy to run Linux on the final build of the LTO backup PC. Likewise I have found out that there needs to be sufficient air flow to keep the LTO Drive iself and possibly the HBA cool enough to operate. Any help would be amazing! Thanks
  6. Its an RX580 I've got it working now, I think I had inadvertently done what you had said just before I posted... Anyways, its all up and Folding again - Thanks for your help (Y)
  7. Yeah, all reporting correctly elsewhere... installed new drivers etc... =/
  8. Left my rig working overnight, came back this morning and had to restart. Now FAH is reporting my GPU as Unsupported.... Any ideas?
  9. Hey - Brand new to the folding scene. I seemingly have everything set up and have been folding for most of today, but there are a few things that are confusing me. Whenever my GPU (RX580) is folding, my FAH web control page doesn't load correctly. When the CPU is Folding as well it does... at least most of the time. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I suspect that it is still Folding correctly, just an issue with reporting. Also, the CPU jobs are finishing faster than the GPU ones - Is this normal? I assume that the GPU jobs are the tough ones and the CPUs get the slightly easier tasks. Thanks for any help/advice
  10. Hi there, I want to mod the Mastercase Maker 5's front I/O and make it RGB instead of just red - Is it possible to remove the entire unit from the case in order to do this? Also, anyone know if getting into the I/O component is possible or have a picture of the inside of the casing? I'm hoping that Cooler Master will make a controllable panel at some point - perhaps with the USB 2.0 removed and a 3.1 / 3.2 interface with the new connector added in its place. Heres hoping. Cheers! (Photos are just a crude reference of what I want to do...apologies for the rubbish quality)
  11. Yeah, I thought about this one as well... I saw it in person and I have to agree - it is a bit bulky... Interesting. I'm wondering if modding the Prodigy M would be the best solution...
  12. Hi there, Pretty new to the forums but long time LTT follower. I'm looking for a bit of community help in choosing a case for a new portable editing system. Over the last year I have been doing a lot of Freelance editing and have needed to take my workstation from job to job. My current x99 system is in a Corsair Carbide 500R and has both work and personal data on it. It's large, heavy and well like part of the family so every time I have to move it I worry. In fact Ive had to leave it at location a number of time. Not fun. So I'm planning on building a Ryzen based secondary editing PC that I can load my footage and projects onto for the duration of the job and not worry about anywhere near as much. I'm looking for a compact/portable case that can support an m-atx mobo, a standard sized GPU...say founders edition as a minimum, 2-3 3.5 HDD and at least 1 2.5 and finally a 280mm AIO. If the case could have handles that would be a bonus... So far the closest thing I've found is the bit-phoenix Prodigy-M... But I'm not sure on RAD support. I'm open to advice or suggestions etc and if you need more details just let me know. Cheers! FG
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