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question for FCP on my new 17″imac
Hi guys,
my old boss is running FCP on imac and having played on it it seems to work fine……so i have decided to buy one just to learn the basics….. and maybe once i have mastered it upgrade to a full on G5 fully speced
The machine I have bought is the followig and for what i want i think this is fine, –
Mac G5 1.8Ghz 1.25GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Superdrive
Once i have the other it would be nice to keep this as a play / donkey work machine for the cheap projects we get in…..
My question is can i hang additional storage on the back of this to open up the storage…… and if so any hints or tips would be wonderfull
thank you in assistance…
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3 Replies
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sure… the least expensive additional storage option is probably a second SATA drive inside your G5. It’s a snap to put in, and will support 8 bit uncompressed and lower resolutions…
A SATA array is probably the next best solution or a FW800 array. I really like the G-Raids for this… Up from there cost wise and speed wise would be SCSI 320 or (better yet) Fibre Channel arrays… Both of these would involve buying a host adapter card for your G5. ATTO technologies is the place to look for these, and I like Huge Systems for the array…
Jerry
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If it’s an iMac, a SATA RAID is not an option, but you’ll be able to add as many FW disks as you can possibly eat. (I’ve had 10 at the worst. Not adviceable… -;)
Gunleik
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Many thanks for the heads up on storage….
thank you
Darren
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