The Render-Spare Drive is not required for your EDIUS System, but it's a good idea to have. Having a secondary SSD or hard drive in addition to your Media RAID can be important. This drive can be used as your EXPORT DRIVE for your exports to MPEG-2, Blu-ray, H.264/265, QuickTime, or anything you are exporting. Using a separate storage for exports will decrease your render times and is recommended by Adobe. If you are a serious power user for Premiere Pro, After Effects, or Photoshop then you should consider adding an SSD drive for your Media cache, scratch disks, and After Effects cache. The SSD drive will considerably speed up those applications, when working with complex projects.
In this section, you can choose your Internal Media Volume drive array. Please note that configurations that have 8 drives require the 8 bay case. The Media Volume (volume) is where you will store your video, audio, stills, and other media for online editing. Although the Media RAID shows up as one drive letter, it is actually made up of two or more spinning hard drives or Solid State Drives. We offer 2 types of RAID configurations. We use a multi drive RAID configuration for your media storage because one single hard drive is not fast enough to edit the formats used today in most cases. We use a proprietary 'caching' algorithm combined with our RAID configurations to enhance the multi stream performance. The end result is that you don't have to wait for your storage system to catch up to your creativity. Media RAID-0: for Performance In a RAID-0, we use 2 (or more) hard drives and combine them together so they appear as one drive letter (volume) in Windows. This is required for SD/HD/4K editing because a single hard drive is not fast enough. If you take the steps to make sure your important video and audio assets are backed up, then the standard (2) drive RAID-0 is perfectly fine. Hard drives are mechanical, and they can fail. Our systems have numerous external ports for easy connection to USB 3.0, optional Thunderbolt drive arrays. There are many options to keep your media online and available. Media RAID-10: for Performance and Content Protection In a RAID-10, we essentially mirror a RAID-0. This is all done in the background with no intervention from you. The UPSIDE to this solution is fast speed with data redundancy. If a hard drive fails in the RAID, all of your projects and media are safe. With our RAID-10 configuration, if a drive fails the system continues to operate without a hiccup, and there is no need to rebuild a RAID-10 array to access your projects and media stored on it. Once you replace the failed drive, the array will be protected again. The DOWNSIDE to this solution is that it is more expensive, and doubles the number of hard drives required to implement it.
For interface and preview display monitors, we are pleased to offer Samsung and LG monitors. Besides amazing accurate color quality and accuracy, each Samsung monitor we offer comes standard with TILT, PIVOT, and HEIGHT adjustments. The Samsung 32" monitor is a great choice with a lot of screen real estate. This Samsung monitor offers amazing 30 bit color (over a billion), and 30 BIT resolutions up to 2560 X 1600. 4K or UHD monitors are starting to become widely available. However, most of the models priced at less than $600 have very poor refresh rates making them unsuitable for video editing. You may choose a 4K monitor for use as an interface display (or two), or use it as a preview display. After looking at the models available, we believe the LG model we offer gives you the best color (nearly 100% Adobe sRGB) and at 4096 x 2160 (17:9). This monitor  operates at the exact resolution of Digital Cinema 4K and support for 30bit color for over 1 billion colors.
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