Andrew Richards
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Why not keep using your Maxx Digital storage?
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It probably is too DIY, but this is very high density in terms of both space and $/GB:
Install FreeBSD on that and use ZFS across all those HDDs and you’d have a pretty stout NAS box.
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[Clint Wardlow] “It could be that FCP7 will remain viable for many years to come.”
Probably not. Apple has fully deprecated the whole of the old QuickTime C and QTKit frameworks in Mavericks, and FCP7 relies heavily on those. They might be there in Mojave or Tahoe or Catalina (or whatever Cali nickname comes after Mavericks), but betting on them being there after Mavericks isn’t a good wager.
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[Tyler Henry] “What’s the advantage to installing sanMP if it’s not necessary? Is it only necessary for larger bandwidths?”
SANmp is used for fibre channel storage area networks (SAN). SANmp manages volume locking so that multiple users of the same fibre channel RAID do not stomp on each others storage transactions. One user can read and write, everyone else can only read any given volume. You would not use it for Ethernet-based network-attached storage (NAS) like Final Share or Small Tree, which use protocols like AFP, SMB, or NFS to connect.
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[Dave Gage] “…so, you’re saying it would be possible or that there’s too much USB Controller stuff to make it work.”
I don’t know how small USB 3 controllers can get these days, but sure it’s possible. However, like you noted elsewhere in the thread, the only Macs that would benefit from it are the 2011s, so it is pretty unlikely Apple’d go to the trouble since the market for it would be so narrow.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “There’s ethernet and fw TBolt cables, I don’t see why there couldn’t be USB3 cables.”
They’d need to cram a full USB 3 controller into the end of it. The Thunderbolt gigabit Ethernet adapter has a Broadcom PCIe NIC tucked inside the plastic shell. The FW800 adapter has an LSI controller inside. And that’s just the one end. Both have an Intel Port Ridge Thunderbolt controller inside the other end. Pretty amazing.
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[Bob Zelin] “CUDA is a must (even on an isolated workstation). Lots of RAM. Lots of cores. “
CUDA was a must for CS5 and to a lesser extent CS6, but PPro’s support for OpenCL in CC has broadened considerably. They’re committed to supporting their effects stack with OpenCL, and have said they will continue to officially qualify more and more OpenCL GPUs for Mercury Engine. Better still, if your GPU isn’t on the list, PPro CC lets you enable it anyway if it has 1GB of VRAM. Contorting yourself to get an NVIDIA CUDA GPU for PPro is no longer a problem on CC.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Does this happen in the background? Does it replace the legacy movie or are the legacy and AVF compatible movies somehow linked?”
As I understand it, QTP will pop up an alert dialogue offering to transcode legacy codecs to modern codecs supported under AV Foundation. I assume it creates a new file.
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[Eric Hansen] “Is SMB2 available for all versions of windows? “
The specific version Mavericks is adopting (SMB 2.1) was introduced in Win7/2008r2.
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Andy