Anyone using Huge Systems arrays?

[David Battistella]

I have the 4210.

It gives me about 10 layers of rt in DV.

I do not know what card you are using for HD but it will only give you one stream of HD with a KONA 2. This is a limitaion of the driver and not the hardware.

The Drive pulls about 380MB/sec when it is 80%full.

Nice product. Sturdy, two power supplies. Pretty darned quiet and built for performance.

David

[Rich Tencza]

You say 10 layers RT at native DV….What about 8-10 bit SD?

[Bob Woodhead]

I’ve got the 320R (SCSI/removeable). The only test I ran gave me 9 layers RT DV. Never bothered w/ more testing, as when I’m editing in layers, it’s NEVER simple “boxes on boxes”, it’s fuzzy edges, matte tracks, fx, etc, so “RT layers” is N/A. The array will give the bandwidth that’ll be more than what your G5 can handle. I run it in RAID 3 (for protection), and at 50% capacity I get about 185MB/sec. Can’t say enough good things about Huge support.

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
Quantel-Avid-FCP-3D-Crayola
G5 DP 2G, 10.3.4, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 4.5, Aja IO, Huge 320R [raid3]

[David Battistella]

Bob is right in the post below. Everything is RT until you add stuff that will bring you into the render bar. Drop shadows will put you into the red in a moment. When I just started stacking boxes I got 9 or ten layers of DV. I have not tried any ten bit, but I would expect its at least two or three if not more depending on the complexity.

There are people who would argue that FCP is only ever giving you an RT preview and that everything needs to be rendered (even the ful, light green line RT stuff) It’s nice to have the speed for proofing stuff really quickly.

I say this often but it is true. Ever since the advent of computer based non liniar editing there is one thing that has remained from quadra series Macs to the G5. At some point in my day I am looking at a render bar as it crawls from left to right on my screen. The faster they get the more we push them.

David