Will be reviewing PCI expansion enclosures

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

I completed the first of the three demos, for the Netstor TurboBox PCIe expansion enclosures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGxuCd0mWgA

I’ve been using a TurboBox Rac in my home studio for a couple of weeks now, and have found it to be rock solid and fast. I’m not doing any stereoscopic or RED work, but as far as I can see the TurboBox should perform as well as any similar-spec’d enclosure from other vendors, and the prices are very competitive.

Thanks,
Gray.

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[Thomas Maier]

Hallo Graham,

i have a Netstor TurboBox Pro (NA250A) with two Nvidia GTX 580 installed.

We already checked it on a windows 7 Z800 machine with no problems.

Now we want to use it with our Mac Pro 5,1 – installed Cards in this order:

Decklink HD Extreme 3D
LSILogic LSI7104EP-LC Fibre Host Adapter
Netstor Host Adapter
Ati Radeon HD 5770

Davinci Resolve Lite and i know it only accept one Nvidia Card – waiting for the Cinema Caemra 😉 -, but Resolve show me only the ATI Radeon.
DO i have to Setup it anywhere?

What I am wondering about is, that the systemprofile show my in graphik-section the following:

Ati Radeon HD 5770
Monitor
Monitor

When io select Monitor:
Monitor:

Typ: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe-Lane-Breite: x8
Hersteller: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Geräte-ID: 0x1080
Versions-ID: 0x00a1
Monitore:
Monitoranschluss:

(yes, german :D)

When i select the PCI-Card section it saying something similar to “Ther was an error collecting PCI Card information.”

Is ther something wrong with the MAC-Pro?
Any ideas?

Many thanks and best regards

Thomas

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

do you have the monitor connected to the 5770? If so, that’s what Resolve Lite will see (at least until it has been set up).

Also, did you set up the drivers for the Nvidia cards? Make sure you follow all the instructions particular to your OS.

After installing/verifying the drivers, connect the monitor to one of the Nvidia cards, reboot, and Davinci should see it.

Once you get the full version, you will have more flexibility with the cards.

Hope this helps,
Gray.

[Thomas Maier]

Hi,

many thanks.
I will check this, but i think the problem is that i am still on snow leopard.

Cheers

Thomas

[Thomas Maier]

Lion works!

Cheers,

Thomas

[Graham Jones]

Awesome, great news!

[Boris Tivchev]

Hi Graham,

We have Davinci Resolve 9 running on a 2009 MacPro . Just got a Red Rocket card which we need to make space for.

Currently setup is:

slot-1 – GTX285 (GPU)
slot-2 – GT120 (UI)
slot-3 – LSI7404EP Fibre Channel
slot-4 – DeckLink SDI

We are looking at getting additional 3 x GTX580 or GTX570.

Between Netstor, Magma, Cubix and Cyclon which expansion box would you recommend Price/Performance wise?

Any advise on this would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Boris

[Boris Tivchev]

Let me put it another way… What effect on performance would x8 have compared to x16 with the GPUs we plan on getting?

Many thanks,
Boris

[Graham Jones]

Hi,

to be honest, I’m not sure. I thoroughly tested a RocketRIAD 4522 with a 24 bay enclosure, and saw no performance difference between the Netstor and when it was installed internally. However, I didn’t really have a way of testing GPU performance. A GTX 570 worked perfectly in the Netstor as a CUDA accelerator, while the RocketRAID was running, but it was not a scientific test, and it was only a single card.

Incidentally, I am selling my Netstor unit if anyone is interested — raising money for a move to LA:
https://www.tvwriterpodcast.com/?page_id=1981

Thanks,
Gray.

[Boris Tivchev]

Thanks for that.