• Adobe Premiere Pro

  System Upgrade for Premier

  Posted by Mark Welch on December 6, 2011 at 1:35 am

  I’m upgrading to a new iMac which has the processing power to handle Premier. My present 5 year old iMac barely enables playback. The new computer has Thunderbolt. I checked out Thunderbolt external drives on Apple’s site (Promise Pegasus R4).

  Wondering if these new Apple external T-bolts are suitable for handling HD video.

  Kevin Monahan replied 14 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  December 6, 2011 at 1:25 pm

  Yes. TB will handle multi-streams of HD.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Todd Perchert

  December 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm

  As Chris pointed out Thunderbolt can handle the throughput. The Promise site states the R4 gets speeds up to 500MB/s, which I’m guessing is in RAID-0. Although, I saw one site that put it through RAID-0, 10, 5, and more. If you plan on RAID-5, the numbers don’t look good for the box. https://hamed.dk/blog/101-pegasus-r4-r6-review
  But if you have a backup plan in place (even with RAID-5 you should) then RAID-0 and backups should work well.
  TC
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  Kevin Monahan

  December 7, 2011 at 8:24 pm

  The only problems with the iMac is that you can’t get CUDA goodness with the current display card. At least, max out RAM if you can.

  Kevin Monahan
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