CatDV Server hardware

[Bryson Jones]

I’ve heard Lion is fine, you have to install MySQL as it no longer ships with it but other than that, the word is that things are good.

Rolf, what’s the word on the processors? I’d assume drive speed is more critical, maybe an SSD with a backup clone would be a good speed boost as well now that they are cheap.

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[Rolf Howarth]

I’m sure more cores won’t hurt but you’re right, overall I suspect fast disks, fast RAM and a fast network are more important than raw CPU power.

[Jon T foster]

More cores will be helpful on the transcoding or encoding side of things, otherwise, faster disks, RAM and clean network is the priority.

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[John Heagy]

[Jon T Foster] “More cores will be helpful on the transcoding or encoding side of things, otherwise, faster disks, RAM and clean network is the priority.”

This is why I’m interested in using a Mini with a screaming fast Thunderbolt SSD for DB access… to leave Worker work alone.

John

[Bryson Jones]

Man, I’m going more and more that way myself. As I move transcoding and proxy operations off to other machines I like the little baby servers.

Also, the Mac Mini cluster is pretty awesome for transcoding, driven by the Worker. I wish Apple would get Compressor 4 clustering straightened out so we could load Compressor legally for $50 and then it’ll be a no-brainer, 6 quad core macs in 3 rack spaces – 24 cores for like $6-7k.

Thunderbolt will let us go fibre even for SAN connected peeps.

Not great for a hardware dealer (there’s like $1 profit in that) but it’s a lot of power for not much bread.

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