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File System OS independent
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On my PC, I’ve used MacDrive v7 for my iTunes library. When copying multiple streams of video (concurrent downloading of a rented movie, and syncing with my Apple TV, for example) MacDrive would hang and I’d have to run Repair Volume on the drive on my Mac before it would remount. With MacDrive8, I had the same problem. A few months ago I got fed up and reformatted my media drive as exFAT (read/write on both PC & OSX), and it works like a champ. It also does not require MacDrive.
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I have recently build a Hackintosh, with dual boot to windows 7. I have a software apple raid 0 (4TB), which I can work with in windows (macdrive v9 pro), with decent speed (186 mb/s). However, Resolve seems to take ages in the mediabrowser. I have to wait at least 1 minute just to get a list of files after clicking the raid volume. After that it really takes long for each clip to load in the preview window.
I this a Macdrive issue? I temporarely created a media storage on the windows system drive and that one seem to be a lot faster.
Thanks!
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Did you use any particular guide for building your hackintosh? I’ve been interested in possibly having my PC as a hackintosh to compare it’s performance to my actual Mac Pro – to see if Steve Jobs still sacrifices my manhood from the grade performance wise due to hardware limitations.
Cheez
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Well, I mostly used the tonymacx86.com forum and guides to get everything working. As it was my first build it wasn’t easy, but with a patient mindstate anyone can do it.
Look for the unibeast guide, it’s pretty simple. The hard part is post-installation and getting all your components to work properly. It’s kind of a puzzle…
But it’s rewarding in the end. My build is up to par with a MAc Pro of 7.000 euros, but it costed me 2.000, plus some time…
Last advice; Try to work with two system drives. One for backup and one for experimenting. This really speeded up my whole process, as it is one of trial and error. Everytime you make a ‘stable’ progress, you back that up on the other drive and you move on to your next assignment. if it fails you don’t have to do everything over, you just clone your last backup and take it from there.
Good luck!
Editor/Colorist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.pepijnklijs.nl
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