Alex Gerulaitis
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[Ricardo Reyes] “Black Caviars in a RAID environment…really?”
I don’t think I said anything about RAID. I did mention G-Drives. G-Tech eS and higher series do use Hitachi enterprise drives – but not G-RAIDs, AFAIK.
That said, I find that Black Caviars are generally highly regarded, including for mainstream (not enterprise) RAID applications, and are rarely marked offline by enterprise-class RAID controllers.
I totally get that enterprise class drives optimized for RAID applications are better than desktop ones for nearly any type of RAID. That said, small biz and solo clients will usually choose desktop drives for smaller (8-bay or less) arrays even with the full understanding of the risks and differences.
[Ricardo Reyes] “The Black Caviars don’t support TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery) which is available only in there RE series (enterprise level drive), eliminating the hard drive from entering into a deep recovery cycle. The hard drive will only spend 7 seconds to attempt to recover. This means that the hard drive will not be dropped from a RAID array.”
Thank you, very useful info.
Alex (DV411)
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Thank you so much for your response!
[Angelo Lorenzo] “Does your client currently use any tenured workflow?”
How would you define “tenured workflow”? Bing doesn’t find it, Google points to this thread. 🙂 Is this a workflow where media is acquired for a specific project and can be discarded once completed?
Would you know what are the media management features in FCP, FC Server and MC 5.5 (if any) that don’t exist in Bridge?
Alex (DV411)
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[Bob Zelin] “I just finished crying – I don’t know why you are so happy”
Bob,
I hate making people cry – can I buy you a beer?
If I was comparing enterprise drives to desktop ones, I’d have liked them better too. (Black Caviars aren’t the enterprise RE series drives, are they?)
In my personal experience, Hitachi desktop drives were about 20% slower than Black Caviars – but then Hitachis were quite a bit cheaper. Hitachis also had a 15% failure rate – 3 failed out of about 20 drives purchased over the span of 1 year. Black Caviars – 2 out of 40 or 50.
Alex (DV411)
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[Jason Livingston on Jan 7, 2010 at 10:13:49 am] “In my experience the industry “gold standard” HD-SDI decoder right now is the Evertz 7760CCM-HD, but I’m not sure if it qualifies as “low cost” for you.
For more information, please see our HD caption monitoring whitepaper.”
Got it! (Thanks Jason! :))
Alex (DV411)
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[Jason Livingston] “The only way this could work is to go HD-SDI into a device with a closed captions decoder, and then take the open captioned (captions in the image) output of that device into a converter. (This is how HD set-top boxes work; they render the closed captions into the image and then send the image via HDMI or component.)”
Perfect answer, thanks a lot Jason.
Can you think of a CC-capable HD-SDI monitoring solution that is more affordable than a broadcast monitor with HD-SDI inputs?
Alex (DV411)
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Judging from Thomas’ posts, the only option for him (short of getting a Mac Pro) is a decent FW800 HD for local editing – then he could transfer the project or the output file to NAS if needed.
Alex (DV411)
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Jon’s suggestion is right on the spot – but it will mean you’d have do get a Mac Pro. I don’t believe you can attach anything MiniSAS to an iMac.
Jon: what would you recommend for an iMac, outside of getting a Mac Pro?
Thomas: does it have to network-attached, or can attach directly to your iMac? Are there any other editors (client computers) accessing the same footage and projects from NAS?
Alex (DV411)
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The only laptops formally supported by Adobe for CS5 GPU acceleration (those with Quadro 5000M) are over $4.5K – so a well configured Qosmio with GTX460M for under $2K does look good!
I don’t have any experience with Toshibas (been working with HP almost exclusively for the past 6-10 years). If I read it right, no DisplayPort and no USB 3.0. It does have a combo USB 2.0/eSATA port, as well as ExpressCard/34. Looks like the standard warranty is 1 year, vs. 3 years on HPs and Dells “workstation class” laptops.
If I was in the market for a CS5-optimized laptop, I’d go for Qosmio – seems like it’s one of the best deals around, and is better rated than similar models from Asus.
Alex (DV411)
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Here is another way:
https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/11/having_weird_behavior_with_an.html
Alex (DV411)