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The MaxConnect internal hard disk drive mounting solution……
Can this be used for editing in FCP 5.0 and Motion 2. With the speed tests they posted you can use this solution to edit uncompressed HD footage. With a price range under 2k for 2 Tbytes, it seems to good to be true. Any comments?
Regards,
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It’s a kit that allows you to add more SATA’s … probably just fast enough for HD if stripe them *one stream only* all and fill it to the gills, but that price doesn’t include the drives… so add another 2000 or so for that… I’d look elsewhere because I really don’t think that the cooling system in your Mac is up to it… I hear that internal systems work OK, but there sure are a lot of drives cranking inside there with this creating a LOT of heat, and it will in no way be the fastest solution for HD… Huge System’s 4 gig Fibre channel arrays would simply blow the doors off this solution for example… But cost a more. (ya get what ya pay for here).
Jerry
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Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=873599 leads to a used SCSI array which would be about TWICE as fast as the SATA array you are looking at. It will achieve 300 MB/Sec where the SATA will probably run at about 160 MB/sec or so.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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I use an external box (homemead stuff from a PC cabinet with power) to run a RocketRaid 1820A external SATA RAID.(PCI-X)
I get around 350 as a stable data-stream with 8 disks (400 GB WD’s with 16 mb cache – 7,2k disks)
But I doubt I would put all those disks inside my G5 from the same reasons as mentioned above. The box has 3 fans and have been running without a hickup now for almost 3 months. Needs a separate room, though, due to extensive noise…
I think I paid roughly = 2500 – 3000$ for the 3.2 TB setup in Norway.
So far – just good experiences.
Gunleik
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Yeah, with 8 disks you should be runnning pretty fast, and I agree that the external solution is a ton better… but the internal solution above only involves 4 drives (lots slower no doubt)…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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I’ve been using the system with 4 drives (Maxtor 300 GB) striped as a single RAID for about 6 months now, plus the boot drive. Honeslty I was worried about the heat but I can tell you that in my G5 dual 2.7 it has been a total non-issue. I only edit DV but I render as much as anyone- often an hour straight and the fans only come on intermitently.
For DV you can’t beat it.
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