The Circus Family needed some more diskspace to allocate all our projects…
So a couple of weeks ago Peejee went out to build a new hardware RAID with a capacity of 14TB.

The RAID needed to be safe and fast, and quickly accessible by everyone on the network…

One of the fastest RAID cards that you could put in your MAC PRO the Areca 1280 , bought two Addonics cases with hard disc bays in it and 20 Hitachi 1Tb discs.

Due to some faulty cables we got a lot off system errors and crashes but with some help of SAS-infiband cables form the states we could finally test the full system.

To test the RAID reliability and performance Peejee made a directors cut of
some of the footage he shot in Ischgl Austria for Protest boardwear last winter.

Now the RAID is up and running and accessible by everyone. With the configuration of two ethernet ports combined (ethernet trunking) the other edit set can also access the same RAID partition with a speed of 200Mb/s.

If you like to know more on how to build your own RAID read the following articles.
Super Fast 4TB RAID for Under $2k
Build your own affordable SAN — that works!