• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  new mac and X-serve raid purchase

  Posted by Wally Rombach on April 19, 2007 at 7:41 pm

  Hey:

  I’m thinking of purchasing a new mac quad and X-serve Raid to run FCP Studio2

  What would be the minimum X-serve raid configuration to make HD video from Panasonic Varicam run with no problem? What would be the optimum?

  Also, can you get X-serve raid with say 7 x 750 GB and expand on it later?

  Wally Rombach

  Matt Devino replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Christie

  April 19, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  Hi Wally
  I wouldn’t get an Xserve raid if you just wanted something for local storage. They’re great in an Xsan shared environmnet, but if all you need to do to is connect one CPU, take a look at a SATA raid system from someone like Caldigit. Any of the SATA raid systems out there can handle DVCPro HD. For uncompressed HD, you’ll need a system with at least 8 to 10 drives.

  Cheers

  John Christie

  
  
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  Matt Devino

  April 20, 2007 at 12:37 am

  We have an Xserve raid that has worked really well. We need it because we work in the uncompressed world off of 4:4:4 SRW tapes. If you are only going to be doing varicam DVCPRO HD some of the 1TB firewire 800 drives would work fine. We use firewire 800 all the time for that codec. If you think you’ll ever do anything uncompressed definitly go raid, and the Xserve is great just not the cheapest. AJA has some nice stuff as well which I’m sure you’ll want to round out your system.

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