Alex Gerulaitis
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[Greg Estes] “For power users, Maximus will make more sense than a single Q6000 or Q5000 because it performs the same, costs less and gives you the interactivity I mentioned in my prior post.”
Q2000 + Tesla costs less than a single Q5000?
I thought Tesla was $2K+, and Q5K was around $1.7K? Does adding a $400 Q2000 to Tesla somehow make it cost less?
And it performs the same or better?
I’d love to see something (benchmarks, demonstration) that proves it.
This comparo (Q5K against Q2K+Tesla) is one of the few that actually make sense (rather than Q2K against Q2K+Tesla) – because they sort of in the same $$ ballpark, and if this Maximus combo indeed kills the Q5K on some benchmarks, customers could justify it.
Q2K + Tesla vs. Q6K – sure, this makes sense money-wise, but again, there has to be a clear case for it, what applications benefit most from it, where, and why.
(It was just a bit unusual to see an engineering company such as NVidia make far reaching claims that didn’t seem well substantiated – especially when targeted at “pros” where they will likely be under greater scrutiny.)
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The RAID information is indeed stored on the drives; some of it is also in the controller memory – which goes away when you install a new set of drives.
It should be theoretically possible with nearly any RAID5 controller, the recovery procedure varies. I’d contact SANS Digital for the exact procedure. It may be fully automatic, i.e. the array will just come up when you re-install the old drive set; or you may have to execute a “read RAID data from drives” function first.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Greg,
Thank you very much for the post – good to see someone from NVidia chiming in.
Any definitive benchmarks or independent demos on Premiere Pro performance in Maximus? All I saw was very vague declarations of incredible performance feats with no real-world benchmarks or UI fluidity or FPS demos.
Some articles out there make a case for improved UI fluidity in Maximus, e.g. fewer dropped frames while scrubbing or playing back complex timelines.
Is that it for Premiere Pro? (I am not discounting the benefits, just asking if this is the only appreciable benefit of Maximus in Premiere Pro.)
Question Number TWO (the more important one I think):
What is the value of Maximus for any application, when you compare something + Tesla vs. something that costs about the same as both of those?
E.g. don’t compare a Q2K vs. Q2K + Tesla, this is just bonkers – it’s like comparing a $1 hamburger vs. a $20 one – in most cases, clearly there will be differences.
Compare a Q2K + Tesla (about $2.5K) vs. Q5K (under $2K). Significant UI improvements under load in Pr or AE? Appreciable performance improvements (rendering) in any app?
P.S. There was a similar discussion on Adobe forum that may give additional info:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4701367#4701367
Alex Gerulaitis
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Thanks for the research David, good info.
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[Roberto Munoz] “I’m using the WD caviar black as a test, but then I would like to fill the entire rack. Should I buy another set of drives?”
Certainly, except not the Black Caviars – they’re not qualified for parity RAIDs. I’d look at HGST 7K4000 or 7K3000. The enterprise class versions (Ultrastars) are the only drives out there with both a 2m hrs MTBF and a 5-year warranty.
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Paul Joy] “I posted a resolution to my problem but it’s in the wrong place in the reply list, check my blog post and see if that helps you at all.”
Paul,
The solution was to return the array, have the vendor tinker with it and return back to you fixed? I couldn’t find anything else resembling a solution on your page.
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Does your problem look similar to this?
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4558793
If so, it’s fairly likely to be a BMD driver issue, possibly only happening on Multibridge Pro – but not a system issue.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
Hi Abraham,
Like Mike said, Chrome’s Flash runtime is something they (Chrome dev team) update themselves; 11.3 and 11.4 are Flash versions in Cr 21-23; the issue seems to be the the Java code though?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA