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What Raid should I use?
Building a new system that run CS3 with Black Magic’ Decklink SD card:
– MoBo: ASUS P5K WS – Intel P35 chipset (Core 2 Duo) – Upto P4 3.8GHz; 4xDual DDR2 667 / 800/ 1066 (Max 8GB Ram); Sound 8 channel & Dual NIC Gigabit onboard; 2xPCI-Express; Raid 0,1,5,10; IEEE 1394; 6xSATA; 2xExt SATA; 3xPCI; 1066/ 1333 FSB
– Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 – 2.4GHz/ 8MB L2 Cache/ FSB 1066MHz/ 64Bit
– Ram: 4Gb
Working on AE, PP Pro, C4d, uncompress 8 – 10 bits SD only.
– Is DecklinkSD run well with CS3 on window XP?
– What graphic card should i use, heard bad things about 8800 series?
– Is Mobo’ internal raid 0 fast and reliable enough to handle uncompress 8 – 10 bits SD or using a raid card, what raid ( raid 0, 1, 5) and what raid card should I use?
Any recommendation is appreciated.
Thanks in advanced.
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hi,
cs3 runs well with decklink cards. we have different raid configurations in our systems, but if you want to capture and edit uncompressed (10 Bit YUV) SD video i would recommend not to use the onboard controller. we did that also with some asus MB for a while and sometimes we got dropped frames. it was very strange, because in the BM speedtest the datarate was more than good (150-200MB/s). also we recognized that when the raid was getting full (more than 60/70%) the datarates were falling dramatically. so we bought a 4-channel sata raid controller from 3ware (9650SE-4LPML). the datarates are now a little bit higher than with the onboard controller, but the important things is, that they are more continuous. also when tha raid is filles up, the decrease is not so big and we had no dropped frames since that.
hope that helps a little bit.
best,
bernhard.
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Thanks for your really usefull information, bernhard.
Cheer!
vawnsown
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