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You’re spot on Mark! That chart is wrong.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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do you have a link to a more accurate chart?
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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “The LSI not only initiates the conversation but also directs trafic across a fault free SD raid array.”
Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t it a RAID 0 in the P2 cards, not a RAID 1? How can it be “fault free” in a RAID 0 without backup or redundancy?
[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “You do need to have a “smart” chip” installed and to say it is because we are “blocking” is one interptretation; rather my interpretaion is that we guarantee results, not “sort of guaranteed” based on your choice of hard drive and such.”
Are the results with the $2000 Firestore hard drive guarenteed? Can we get a Firestore “interface” unit to use our own external hard drives with?
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[Brian SaenzDeViteri] “Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t it a RAID 0 in the P2 cards, not a RAID 1? How can it be “fault free” in a RAID 0 without backup or redundancy?”
I think what Jan was getting at is that the LSI arbitrates the flow of data and performs checks to make sure that it gets to where it’s going without faults, not that RAID0 offers redundancy.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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[Brian SaenzDeViteri] “Are the results with the $2000 Firestore hard drive guarenteed? Can we get a Firestore “interface” unit to use our own external hard drives with?”
Those are questions for Focus, not Panasonic. I’ve tried to suggest to them to design exactly that type of product (user-interchangeable hard disks, or a controller unit that allows end-user hard disks). From the info that’s been released so far, it sounds like they didn’t take the suggestions. But if they don’t, perhaps someone else will (someone like nNovia with its QuickCapture system, etc).
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The chart is wrong in relation to the spec that the P2 card uses. There are two different specifications for the PCMCIA slot, one is 16-bit (which may be accurately referenced by the chart, I’m not sure) and then there’s 32-bit. The 32-bit slot is 133 megaBYTES per second, and it’s basically a hot-swappable, compact version of a PCI slot. That’s sometimes called Cardbus32, and that’s what the P2 cards use. So look at the speed rating for ATA133, that’s more where the Cardbus32 and P2 card should be listed on that chart.
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[Barry Green] “Those are questions for Focus, not Panasonic.”
Everytime I contact Focus (Firestore) about this, they say Panasonic is setting the price and has set all the specifications.
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