4k Capture with Raid?

[Revan654]

I'm planning on doing some 4k Recording, Bitrate will most likely be set to around 160 mbs. I was wondering what is the best option without spend 700 dollars on harddrives.

1. Would putting them in Raid be the best option? If so Which raid would be the best choice and also safest?
1A. Which would be better harddrive for Raid Western Digital Blue or Red? I'm looking to keep them as quiet as possible. I don't mind some noise.

[scottyseng]

3 hours ago, Revan654 said:

I'm planning on doing some 4k Recording, Bitrate will most likely be set to around 160 mbs. I was wondering what is the best option without spend 700 dollars on harddrives.

1. Would putting them in Raid be the best option? If so Which raid would be the best choice and also safest?
1A. Which would be better harddrive for Raid Western Digital Blue or Red? I'm looking to keep them as quiet as possible. I don't mind some noise.

Is this for a nas or local storage? I'm guessing onboard raid right?

 

Well, a single 4TB WD red will do 160MBs. Four in raid10 will do 350MBs. Six in raid10 will do 500MBs. Six in raid six will do 650MBs. These are my numbers using my hardware raid card and real red drives as I upgraded my home nas.

 

is this a working drive or do you need redundancy too?

 

Also, I would stick with the WD red for raid.

 

also note that the speed will drop as the drives get full.

[Revan654]

22 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

Is this for a nas or local storage? I'm guessing onboard raid right?

 

Well, a single 4TB WD red will do 160MBs. Four in raid10 will do 350MBs. Six in raid10 will do 500MBs. Six in raid six will do 650MBs. These are my numbers using my hardware raid card and real red drives as I upgraded my home nas.

 

is this a working drive or do you need redundancy too?

 

Also, I would stick with the WD red for raid.

 

also note that the speed will drop as the drives get full.

 

It's Local, I was thinking of Red Pro. I would like to get away with two Red drives. If I must I could add a third(Only have room for 3 mechanical drives). The drive will used solo for capturing 4k Nothing else.

[scottyseng]

1 minute ago, Revan654 said:

 

It's Local, I was thinking of Red Pro. I would like to get away with two Red drives. If I must I could add a third(Only have room for 3 mechanical drives). The drive will used solo for capturing 4k Nothing else.

Red Pro or the enterprise Se drives would work as well. Comparing the two though, a red is 160MBs and My WD Re is 180MBs, so not quite a drastic difference. You could do two drives in Raid0. If you want all three, your only real option is Raid5 or 0. The other raid levels need a even amount of drives.

 

 

[Captain_WD]

13 hours ago, Revan654 said:

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Hi there Revan654

 

It may be risky to use a single drive for such recording as it's peak sequential speeds are around the bit-rate you are going to need and any additional workload may cause stuttering or frame losses. A RAID0 from two drives should suffice and I would indeed recommend WD Red for this purpose as they have the additional features that enable them to work safe and more stable in RAID arrays with lower chances of drive dropouts. 

 

WD Red Pro are also an option but I believe they would be a bit of an overkill in this case as well as the enterprise-level drives. 

 

Another option you may consider (if the drive's purpose is solely video recording) is WD Purple. These drives are Surveillance-class and are designed specifically for video recording with improved sequential speeds and priority on the write tasks.  

 

@scottyseng gave you some excellent suggestions and info so I'd take consider. 

 

Captain_WD.