Shane Ross has posted a fantastic review of CalDigit’s new HDPro RAID solution. This 4 Terabyte (500GB x8) RAID5 editors dream performs in the upper 300 MB/s read speed (Shane’s average: 385 MB/s), which should catch the eye of all the uncompressed junkies out there. That’s enough for multiple streams. Write speed wasn’t shabby either. He also tested out the protection ability of RAID5:

“… I set it up to capture uncompressed 10-bit, and about 5 minutes in…I YANKED A DRIVE OUT! … But, it kept merrily match capturing…not missing a beat. When it was done I saved my project and set about fixing what I intentionally broke. I pushed the drive back in and went into the RAID SHIELD software and unlocked the drive and the software went about rebuilding the Raid. Again, that took about 3 hours. But the footage I captured was still intact and played fine.”

Currently you’ll need a PCIe computer to use the HD Pro, with PCI-X support in the works. There’s also an Express34 card interface for the unit, for Macbook Pro users. The HDPro starts at just under $4000 for 2TB, and goes all the way up to the 6TB model at $8K. Thanks Shane for the great review on what looks to be a solid offering from CalDigit.