Pci Express and quagd processing a big deal

[Steve Connor]

[Michael Brennan] “From the responses so far the improvement offered by PCI express and quad processing is not out of the ordinary?
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No-one knows Mike – it’s all theory at the moment, we’ll have to wait until the first benchmarks come out after the machines ship.

Steve Connor
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[Michael Brennan]

Thanks for the feedback.
Our initial use is simply sending out short clips from the library so we are well within capabilities of G5.

For no other reason than having the benifit of a single supplier we will probably stick with Apple for the storage. We don’t really have a FCP boffin amongst us at the moment, so trouble shooting becomes more problematic if 3rd party hardware and software is in use.

I’m sure we’ll have problems, but none of us are betting the farm on this project, just hoping to be a bit more productive with the fields we have:)

I hope the PCI express and the Xraid will integrate with future Gx’s. The G5 will be a relatively low cost item in the system (especially when you consider cost of getting HD onto the raid) so swapping it is feasible.

Mike Brennan