Thunderbolt 3 Cables, Active or Passive, Drive Selection for Video Editing

G-Technology G-RAID & G-DOCK
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We propose to use a G-Raid 2-drive array configured as RAID 0 in connection with video editing.

  1. Is there any reason that this would be inappropriate?

  2. It appears that the Thunderbolt cable that ships with the G-Raid Thunderbolt 3 unit is marked “20Gbps”. As Thunderbolt 3 is spec’d at a maximum of 40Gbs, is there a reason that this cable is limited to 20Gbps?

  3. Or is it a matter that the RAID 0 configured drives can’t operate that fast anyway?

  4. In that connection, it appears that the larger capacity drives are faster. True?

  5. Are there any other drive selection options that might improve drive access speed? To more completely take advantage of the full bandwidth available from Thunderbolt 3?

  6. We would like to position the G-Raid further than 3’. Can we use an “active” Thunderbolt 3 cable with this unit? To extend the distance?

Thanks for your insights.

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  1. No issue
  2. More common
  3. Rotational drives won’t be able to get the TB3 spec speeds anyways.
  4. Yes
  5. You would have to have multiple SSDs to utilitize TB3’s bandwidth ceiling. Even TB1 is barely touched by rotational HDDs
  6. Yes