Expanding storage with ProBox, will it work?

[deprilula28]

Hey, I wanted to get out of this situation with 3xtoshiba external 1tb hard drive, they are slow and unpratical to replace on my desktop and mainly laptop, as I have to connect a usb hub. So then I conderied buying a MediaSonic ProBox with 8x6tb at 5GB per freaking second...

Seagate 6TB Desktop HDD 6Gb/s 128MB

Mediasonic H82-SU3S2 ProBox 8 Bay 
 
But, you know these things aren't cheap, and I wanted to know if:
A) They are compatible with each other

B) It's gonna work well at 800MB+ speed

C)Is it gonna really give me those 48 beautiful tb of storage

 

You know, for my reading and speculations, it's gonna work, but I SUCK at these things, so I could've missed 1 work saying this is not gonna work and I wanna confirm... Ya, that's it!

[BrinkGG]

What OS? USB or eSATA? 

[deprilula28]

What OS? USB or eSATA? 

Windows 8.1 (will be upgrading to windows 10 once it comes out) with USB 3.0

[Ertman]

Planning on raid 0? or are you talking about total speed from the box if multiple drives were being accessed simultaneously. Those speeds are the interface speeds, even if assuming zero overhead a single mechanical drive will not saturate the interface, you would need either a raid 0 or multiple drives being accessed independently to saturate the interface.

[deprilula28]

Planning on raid 0? or are you talking about total speed from the box if multiple drives were being accessed simultaneously. Those speeds are the interface speeds, even if assuming zero overhead a single mechanical drive will not saturate the interface, you would need either a raid 0 or multiple drives being accessed independently to saturate the interface.

No raid, using 1 hard drive at a time, I use it putting videos, films, videos, music and others in 4k, 1080p really high quality. I burn my hard drives in 1 week ;P

[Ertman]

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But, you know these things aren't cheap, and I wanted to know if:

B) It's gonna work well at 800MB+ speed

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No raid, using 1 hard drive at a time

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Then no. Reason, a single mechanical hard drive cannot transfer data a those speeds (800MB/s)

[deprilula28]

Then no. Reason, a single mechanical hard drive cannot transfer data a those speeds (800MB/s)

Will I be able to watch and edit videos at 2160p 60fps without suffering?

[Ertman]

Will I be able to watch and edit videos at 2160p 60fps without suffering?

I can't answer that fully for you unfortunately. Why?

1. I don't perform any 4k editing and do not know the requirements. I do not know if a raid setup is required. IIRC its only required for 4k RAW video.

2. I honestly don't know if any hiccups will occur with using the probox, it should be fine but as a disclaimer I don't own one. I do own a mediasonic external USB3/eSata enclosure and it worked quite well for speedy file transfers, but I do not know about 4k.

 

With that said, as long as your paired with 7200rpm hard drives and you have the proper drivers installed (either automatically by windows or yourself) to take advantage of the connection speed (USB3 or eSata), then it should work quite well. You should get similar speeds to as if they were internal (minus a small connection overhead).  To increase performance where you might be needing to read and write simultaneously at high speed, using one drive for reading and one for writing should alleviate some bottlenecks that might occur (not an external enclosure problem).

[deprilula28]

I can't answer that fully for you unfortunately. Why?

1. I don't perform any 4k editing and do not know the requirements. I do not know if a raid setup is required. IIRC its only required for 4k RAW video.

2. I honestly don't know if any hiccups will occur with using the probox, it should be fine but as a disclaimer I don't own one. I do own a mediasonic external USB3/eSata enclosure and it worked quite well for speedy file transfers, but I do not know about 4k.

With that said, as long as your paired with 7200rpm hard drives and you have the proper drivers installed (either automatically by windows or yourself) to take advantage of the connection speed (USB3 or eSata), then it should work quite well. You should get similar speeds to as if they were internal (minus a small connection overhead). To increase performance where you might be needing to read and write simultaneously at high speed, using one drive for reading and one for writing should alleviate some bottlenecks that might occur (not an external enclosure problem).

Ok thanks [emoji2]

Im actually gonna buy a proraid and if it doesnt do well with 4k I'll RAID0 them.