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Upgrading Adrenalin to HD
I need to write up a report on upgrading our shop to HD. For the Adrenalin system we have I am assuming I will need to by the DNxel board and alot of new storage. Is anyone using non-avid storage solutions? Can you? Regardless, what are your RAID array recommendations? How about monitoring? I’d appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thanks.
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Lots of interesting info here–much of it way beyond my comprehension.
https://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/thread/110719.aspx
Post back here please and let us know what you end up going with. I know others will be interested to know their options as more people upgrade to HD setups.
Mike.
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For additional storage, a very inexpensive soution is to get the Sonnet X4P SATA host card, and put it into slot 4 or 5 of your HP xw8000 or xw8200. This card costs $299. Connect this to the Sonnet Fusion 500P SATA chassis, that will hold 5 500 gig or 750 Gig SATA II drives. You will use Microsoft Disk Manager to stripe all 5 drives to RAID 0, and you will be able to do DNxHD220 with NO PROBLEMS. A complete system with 5 500 Gig Hitachi drives
(2.5 Terabytes) will cost you under $3000.For monitoring, there are countless solutions today. A great solution is the new Panasonic BT-LH2600W 26″ LCD monitor from Panasonic, that will do everything from composite video to HD-SDI. If you dont’ want to spend that much money, a very inexpensive solution for HD is to use the analog Y Pb Pr jacks on the back of the Adreanaline HD board, and go into a HP L2335 23″ LCD monitor – this will cost you about $1100, and look great (in HD, not in SD).
You can also use these jacks on the back of the Adrenaline to feed any plasma display that is “hd ready” – it will vary depending on which model you choose.Bob Zelin
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