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Well, two hard drives in RAID-0 if you want to play it back in real-time without copying it first to faster storage, because a single SATA drive cannot sustain
by matja 4y ago
Well, two hard drives in RAID-0 if you want to play it back in real-time without copying it first to faster storage, because a single SATA drive cannot sustain 597.2MB/sec. Unless your definition of "basic consumer external hard drive" is an NVMe SSD over 10Gbps USB 3.2 or better.
- chrisseaton 4y agoAs the thread says - it’s compressed. I’m giving uncompressed sizes as an upper bound.
- giantrobot 4y agoThe GP is pointing out that storing an uncompressed film isn't useful if it can't be played back. Playing back an uncompressed 4K film is nearly 600MBps. That's a data rate you're not going to get out of any consumer HDDs.
- chrisseaton 4y agoBut they're not uncompressed. They're compressed. You don't need to play them back uncompressed. You can even compress them losslessly.
- josephcsible 4y agoI probably wouldn't call it "basic", but aside from that, https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Rocket-Thunderbolt-External-SB-XTMQ-8TB/dp/B08BZ2Z65B https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Rocket-Thunderbolt-External-S... seems to fit the bill fine.