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FCS2 and eSATA: What am I now capable of?
So I have this new Mac Pro with FCS2 (see optical audio output problems thread below. I still can’t get it to work)
Anyway, I have a LaCie Quadra 500GB HD connected via its eSATA port into a eSATA PCI card. Since this is a faster setup than FW400 (what I had before) am I capable of doing anything now that I wasn’t before? ie: Pro Res 422, Uncompressed 8 or 10 bit, stuff like that.
I am still capturing only SD (mini DV actually) video via firewire, no capture card.
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You’re heading in the right direction, however, while eSATA has definitey has higher throughput than Firewire 800, on paper nearly 2X the speed of firewire 800, a single eSATA drive such as the one you have will not rock your world.
You are much better off to load that machine with three bare SATA drives and stripe them together. That will give you what you’re really looking for. With that setup you have the capability to edit professionally in all but 10-bit uncompressed HD.
David
David Roth Weiss
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Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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[David Roth Weiss] “You’re heading in the right direction, however, while eSATA has definitey has higher throughput than Firewire 800, on paper nearly 2X the speed of firewire 800, a single eSATA drive such as the one you have will not rock your world.”
Yep, one drive is not going to do nearly the performance of even two drives striped together. We run a 5 bay LaCie S2S in each of our suites for the moment and will be replacing those with either two 8bay SATA arrays or a Fibre Array.
Single drives don’t do much for improved performance. RAID’s do.
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