Alex Gerulaitis
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I actually like the idea of sticking it to the man, and instead of paying $50 extra per drive just for the firmware upgrade and maybe $5 worth of hardware (on Red drives), try to use cheap stuff. Google, MS, FB, Amazon – they all get away with that – they use dirt cheap drives with triple redundancy backed by a really good risk management science. A small potato like me wants to get away with that too, and it’s a noble pursuit, in a way. Stick it to the man.
That said, I am a VAR. If a client asks me for an 8-spindle parity RAID, I have to go by the book and use enterprise class drives unless I get a waiver from the client that he understands the risks of using non-enterprise drives.
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[Bob Zelin] “And this is no different from the guy that will soon say “I am trying to edit RED 4K dpx files on my Mac Book Air, and it keeps crashing”. Now, do you just shoot people like this, or ignore them ? “
Every minute, a new such person is born. They can quickly calculate that the BOM on a Linux box capable of 4-6 80MB/s streams on 8-16 spindles could be as low as $3K diskless. They will hit the forums, find people who actually tried it and maybe even succeeded, and then they will come to you expecting a solution at the same price point – but not $10K. I don’t know what to do with them – If you figure it out, let me know… 🙂
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[Murray North] “My question is, does anyone have any experience with the wdidle3 program that I have come across repeatedly in my travels? It is my last ditch hope at a solution.”
WDIdle3 sounds just like a possible solution. Haven’t tried it myself – never worked in Greens in RAID sets. Would love to hear if it worked for you.
Ideally you’d want to do the voodoo on just a few and test them out before changing the timers on production drives.
There’re also warnings to increase the timers rather than disable them.
Good luck.
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GeForce GTX-680 Mac is a better option vs. Q4K but not much cheaper. Like Walter said, nothing anywhere close to $300 unless you’re willing to get a used Quadro FX 4800 Mac on ebay.
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Scott Green] “Could you recommend an affordable Nvidia GPU that I should consider upgrading to in the future?”
GeForce GTX-680 Mac Edition has the best power-to-cost ratio. 2nd choice – Quadro 4000 Mac (on ebay).
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[Lance Bachelder] “Not gonna see benchmarks against GTX series because it is a gamer card and only outputs 8 bit so useless for paying post work.”
Love blanket statements. 🙂
Do you have any stats, how many paid editors use a fully 10-bit path to their display monitors? Among 200-300 I know, maybe 5… But I don’t know enough to make sweeping statements…
On top of that, have you seen Quadro vs. GeForce benchmarks in, say, AE ray tracing? Perchance some “paying post work” might actually swing for faster rendering vs. 10-bit?
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[walter biscardi] “Good info on the new AMD FirePro which will be featured in the new Mac Pro machines”
Did they test only against K2000 though? That’s like clubbing baby seals… Would love to see a test against a GTX-780.
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There is a small text file in MC folder structure that you can modify to include cards not officially supported by Avid.
That helped to make the latest WHQL NVidia driver to work with Symphony 5.0 on a Z820 and Quadro 4000, but I am pretty sure it’ll work with GeForce cards as well. Haven’t tried it though.
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[Jim Zito] “So I can connect both to my Mac via eSata and won’t have any performance problems?”
You shouldn’t – but the usual disclaimers apply – “provided your system has adequate resources and doesn’t have bottlenecks yada yada blah blah…”
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Which G-Speed: eS or Q?
eS: connecting the 2nd eS to another eSATA port on the same controller the 1st is connected to, will work.
Q: any eSATA port will work. Daisy-chaining eSATA-to-FireWire – doesn’t. FireWire-to-FireWire – does.
HTH.