Alex Gerulaitis
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[Joel Thiessen] “Also would there be a benefit to do a 2-bay enclosure with 1TBx2 vs a 1 bay enclosure with 2TB.”
There is a performance benefit in RAID0 (insignificant with FW800 I/O) and redundancy benefit in RAID1. I think we went over this already.
[Joel Thiessen] “I’ve been looking at these drives:
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay
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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro”What are your own thoughts?
[Joel Thiessen] “And thinking I would use these to work from and then purchase additional drives (simple usb drives or possibly naked drives w/a dock?) to back-up and archive. Once it’s safely archived, erase that content from my working drives?”
It’s a feasible workflow – you may want to archive critical files to at least two different drives.
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “When I intalled CS3 a couple years ago it was very unstable and some one advised me to get rid of my wireless mouse. I did and the problem went away. Now my question is: Does CS5 (Premiere Pro) still have the same wireless mouse problem?”
Wow, first time I hear about it. My wild guess is that it’s not the wireless or the mouse that was the culprit but the driver. Can’t be 100% sure though. Most of today’s wireless mice use drivers that are already in the OS – which will make it safe from rogue or bloated drivers. My CS5 demo laptop uses a wireless mouse, and seems to be stable.
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “I guess it depends on how you define ‘decent'”
7200rpm – the ones that pull 140MB/s. All these “mybooks” use slower drives with 100MB/s native transfer rates or below.
[Ted Strickler] “BTW, The memory you showed me, for $60 more I doubled my memory to 24GBs and I am just about to pull the trigger on the build.”
Between the case, graphics card and memory, I think you are saving around $600-800 from your original shopping list, while getting a better system. Congrats.
[Ted Strickler] “I can save a little more money if I go with Windows 7 Home Premium instead of Professional. Any advice on that?”
Home Premium should be fine.
Alex (DV411)
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[Lindsay Simpson] “Any thoughts on having Media Composer and Adobe installed on the same startup disk to be able to use MC just for DV capture? I have feeling that would bog the system down, but perhaps if only running one application at time we could get away with it. “
I like that idea, can’t think of a reason it shouldn’t work smoothly; pretty sure I’ve heard of it being done.
Do you already have a system for CS5, or do you plan to order one? If so, have you decided on a vendor yet? (Yes, I sell CS5-optimized systems.)
(Quick question: why don’t you just sell the MC and get something like a Multibridge Eclipse for that money?)
Alex (DV411)
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[Ted Strickler] “I looked at the 570 and here again, I don’t know much about this stuff but I can’t see where a video card is better when it only has 128Mb of memory on it.”
1280, not 128. 1.28GB memory on the 570.
It’s the number of Cuda cores, memory bandwidth and only then, the amount of RAM, that makes for the optimal GPU acceleration in CS5. The 570 has 480 Cuda cores with 152GB/s memory bandwidth, vs. Quadro 4000’s 256 cores and 90GB/s memory bandwidth.
Here is the reference table for all recent NVidia cards:
https://support.dv411.com/home/vendors/nvidia
Alex (DV411)
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[Alex Geroulaitis] “922 then or SGC-2000: similar look, lots of bays.”
Scratch the 2nd one: a GTX-470 (or 570) may not fit. 922 does support full-length graphics cards.
Alex (DV411)
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The link in my previous post will get you to an Adobe page with a listed of officially supported NVidia models: a couple of GeForce and several Quadro cards. No ATI cards are or can be supported.
Note that MPE is not the same as GPU acceleration. Native 64-bit computing and multi-threading are among MPE benefits you can use regardless of GPU.
Alex (DV411)
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922 then or SGC-2000: similar look, lots of bays.
Bigger cases take more energy to cool, gather more dust, take more space. Efficiency is always superior to excess. 🙂
Oh, and it saves you some $80… 🙂
Alex (DV411)