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dual quad core and sata raid for HD
Hi, i was wondering if intel’s 5000 series mobo with dual quad core 2.66 GHz cpu and 4 seagate 3Gb/s sata hdd (raid) would be ok for 1:1 HD?
Thanks in advance,
Pekin AZER
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6 Replies
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4 drives are not fast enough for uncompresssed HD, but work great for DVCProHD. You need a Cal Digit S2VR for a 5 drive uncompressed HD solution, or anyone elses 8 – 10 drive SATA soltion (multiple boxes all RAID 0). You can do DVCProHD on only 2 SATA drives (if you want to save some $$$).
Bob ZElin
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Hi, thanks for the reply…well, dvc pro HD is easy to deal with…100 Mbit/sec is easy….i am thinking of HDCAM SR…4:4:4 1:1…..i would prefer a medea corp. (now avid) drive…i have 1 medea on combustion for SD work, 2 medea on Avid for SD and HD work and one medea on Protools for audio recording….but, i am a little short on cash this time….i just want to capture and record back the footage..nothing xtreme…after all, once i am in combustion, i play the footage from ram and it will not be, 2 layers of HD with pip….i will just capture from VTR and record back to VTR…4 of these drives gives around 280-300 MB/s…i thought that would be enough…but, i will check for other options.
Pekin
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Hi,
I have had nothing but bad luck with the Media box I purchased a several years ago. RT3x. I have sent it back to them and it came back to me with the same problem – dropouts in the uncompressed material. No other box I had did that. I’ve been in communication with them several times and and on the last pass they just didn’t return my (polite but frustrated) emails. I asked them if they would replace it with something else; i was happy to pay for an upgrade but they would not do that. Now it is used for backup only but is useless for editing as uncompressed SD material does not play back correctly from it. Yes we went round and round the track upgrading firmware, atto card drivers and refreshing everything and consumed enormous amounts of time.
I cannot say that I appreciated the way they supported their product as in the end they have basically left me high and dry. Anyhow, now we use the SATA raids, get twice the storage at half the cost, (that 1.2TB Media cost me almost 6k) and now have no problems.
jason
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I keep hearing that 4 drives can’t do HD but I’ve got 4 seagate raid 0 on my P965 motherboard and the Decklink utility reports about 275 mb/sec read and write at about 33% full. If those were 4 raptors I’d imagine that could be significantly higher. Am I not to believe the Decklink speed test?
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ok so i will first try 4 drives (1 on each channel) if it doesn’t work i will try 8 drives (2 on each channel)….
Sorry to hear about problems with medea….they are the best i know….never has their products failed me once.
Pekin
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back to part of the subject, i’m having difficulties getting my decklink pci to work with my tyan s2696 (intel 5000 chipset) in either the 32bit 33mhz pci slot or the 64bit pci-x 133. I’ve tried xp64, i’m now going back to 32bit to test, but no luck as of yet. (64bit driver 6.1)
Does anybody know if this is a driver issue, bios setting or hardware compatibility problem?
If it’s hardware compatibility would getting a decklink pci-e solve this?specs: tyan s2696, single quad xeon 2.33, 4g ram, areca arc-1120 with 8 250g sata2 seagate drives.
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