Aja Kona

[Bob Zelin]

I use the same Sonnet arrays that Ken uses, but I get them from Ron Amborn at Maxx Digital in California (714) 374 4944. As Ken said, you get the Sonnet E4P card for the PCI-Express MAC’s or the Sonnet X4P card for the PCI-X (older) MAC G5’s. There is NO SOFTWARE to install – it just plugs in and works. You plug the Sonnet SATA card into the Sonnet Fusion 500P chassis, with 5 drives – I ususally use 5 500 Gig Hitachi drives (for 2.5 Terabytes), but I have JUST TRIED the new Seagate 750 Gig SATA drives – the 7200.10 series, and they work great ! So you can put 3.75 Terabytes in one Sonnet Chassis.

With 5 drives all striped RAID 0 using Apple Disk Utility, you will have no problems doing 8 and 10 bit SDI and DVCProHD and HDV. I have found that 5 drives is NOT ENOUGH to do 8 and 10 bit uncompressed HD, but if you get TWO Sonnet 500 P Chassis (just like Ken said), with 10 drives, all stripped RAID 0, you can do uncomressed 8 and 10 bit HD with no problems.

Remember – you can plug FOUR Sonnet Fusion 500P chassis into one Sonnet E4P card – that will give you LOTS of storage.

You can also get SATA chassis that work from ProMax – they are a great company, and have great support as well.

bob Zelin

[Qwert000]

Thanks at all.
Today I am back on italy and thanks to all the suggestions
I have buy on USa and bring to me:
Aja Kona 3 with break out box
Aja IO la
Tempo sonnet E4P pcie express
2 Tempo fusion 5P bay
Unfurtunately the guy of newegss and few other site on internet was not hable to send me 10 hd on time for my depart so now I have to get the hd.
so few question more:
1: on wich PCIe slot of my G5 Quad will be better install the kona card? any difference? (I have read that the TEmpo e4 I have to install or in slot 2 or 4 not on 3)
2: wich hd sata 2 have the better perfomance (500 giga size), in italy Maxtor is very easy to find and are not so expensive.
thanks for the suggestion
Andrea Biscaro