But they only give you network speeds. Something like 1200MB/s.
I meant raid 0 I got this from the manufacturer / Stardom. The speeds are about the same as I get with my x8 pegasus Tb2 HDD raidsā¦ I thought buying a new tb3 enclosure and 8x8tb ssdĀ“s would give me more more of an extra boostā¦ The difference I get is totally negligible, price was not. 
So Iām looking to find a nice enclosure, slim rackmounted thunderbolt 3 8 bay small SATA that has more throughput in the raid controllerā¦ or is it the actual drives that limits me, seams oddā¦ 8xSSDĀ“s should give mor speed than 1500MB/s I thought but Iām far from any disc speed expert. 
As someone who had a super expensive Samsung X5 Thunderbolt 3 SSD unceremoniously die from one second to the next (while it was idle, no less) I can wholeheartedly recommend always having a backup at hand 
well I tried it for two hours. went back to my US keyboard!
Told you so!!! LOL
Stay with it Jon.
Does it work for you?
Yes as a freelancer you never know what youāre gonna get and if I dial in, Iām on my Mac at home, Sometimes I curse when Iām back on a Linux box too. Muscle memory working the other way but it doesnāt take too long to flip again.
UK Tilde works fine for me (never used any other keyboard!) but what has taken some getting used to is having the US keyboard settings on the mac whilst using the uk keyboard. Flame works for me, but some of the options are screwed up (# & Ā£ are wrong!)
Much harder is switching between Flame and ProTools several times a day - that really screws with your muscle memory.
Understood. I know about the differences between cable length etc. And I tested a few. But its not the cable, I get the specific speed that the manufacturer says the raid will give. Which is about 1500MB/s. But to me that is not much considering there is 8 SSDĀ“s in there and a TB3 cables should do over 2500MB/s.
Bjorn,
Thats simply going to be a limitation of their hardware implementation and the speed of the actual silicon.
If thats what the manufacturer says is the fastest it can do then thats that. The analogy Id use would be with those SSDs youve got a great big engine but the chipset is using teeny tiny tyres so you cant get the power to the ground.
You need a new car with wider tyresā¦
Yes, thatās what I thought. I need a new enclosure for the drives as this raid is limited / does not utilise the drives to full speedā¦ So my question was, which is a good TB3 enclosure to put 8 Sata Samsung SSD drives in to get the full speed out of them?
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An SSD card cage fitted directly into the case and connected via a PCIe card?
Oh waitā¦ Youāve got a Mac
Sorry old habits die hardā¦ Always been an Apple haterā¦ (Until the day they make an affordable chassis based box using their latest h/w)
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Well, this is a Intel i9 Asus Sage WS X299 Big Sur Hackingtoch with a Alpine Ridge 2 TB3 card in one of the PCIe lanes. So as I understand the bottle neck is the Stardom raid controller, not the computer, not the PCIe connector, not the cable, not the drivesā¦
Apple does not make the affordable chassis but others do
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Hey Tony I thought you said pinnacle liquid was the height of multithreaded UI?
It always amused me when we had maya fusion on windows nt4 when precomping cg for flame that it could loop okay while I tweaked anything I liked, in a piece of software alias threw in for free when my then 400k flame couldnāt.
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You might all know Bob Zelin from the avid-l but he is all over the net on configuring these and qnaps for network performance for video. Look up his recommendations it will save a ton of pain.
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Bob is the man, heās helped me configure several shared storage systems including my current qnap.
No BS with Bobā¦some of his forum rants should be compiled into a book.
I wouldnāt get that since its not very expandable, but check out this nvme 8 sticks and can raid and swap out if they fail, OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual - Thunderbolt Storage Solution
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Lol Mike, yes I guess Scratch and Liquid, back in the day, are level pegging. Placing Liquid in its historical context, I remember running it on a Pentium with an ancient Before 256 with I forget how little graphics memory. It had realtime GPU effects (yes on SD footage), mixed resolution/codec timeline, background rendering that with smooth foreground playback (on the single GPU), instant save, second colour grading, a 2.5d dve (again, back in the day). It was not as multithreaded as Scratch but if Avid had carried on developing it as Fast and then Pinnacle did, instead of remarketing it for wedding videography, then Liquid (Edition, Chrome, Silver, Purple, Ivory, SonyES3) would have carried on its quasi-compositor-timeline hybridity. What first sprang out at me about Smoke was that it was everything I wanted Liquid to be when Liquid was discontinued. Its picon editing desktop also reminded me of Smokeās desktop and it was very button-centric, levers for input, fullscreen with lower-left start menu to replace the top menu. Got me all nostalgic Mike, and need a Windows 95 emulator to join my Amiga emulator with Deluxe Paint, AdPro and ImageFX!
Cheers
Tony
PS Strangely, and by coincidence, Smoke makes an appearance at 18:07
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Anyone using blackmagic ultrastudio with flame on m1? Or what do you use for hdmi/sdi output?
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