Chris Harlan
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[Jason Porthouse] “[Andrew Richards] “EDIT: I forgot the Intensity Extreme only has the single Thunderbolt port. I’m not aware of any hubs. Sorry.
Yeah, it’s a bummer. I could go for the IO Express, but then I can’t do 2K or 3D and it’s twice the price – or I have to get an Apple TB display rather than use one of my 23” Cinema Displays. I guess BMD didn’t want to pay for 2 ports – licensing perhaps? There’s a gap in the market there though, for sure.
“Hubs can’t exist by the very nature of Thunderbolt. It has to be a single terminated line like SCSI.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Higher compression 4k Redcode is not far from 35 MB/sec
35 mb/sec though, is far away. Big difference in mb vs MB.
“Jeremy, you tweaker! Yes, I know. Which is why I typed “MB” instead of “Mb.” Since “mb” is neither “MB” or “Mb,” and really nothing, I took “visually lossless 4K at 35mb/s” as an uncapitalized “visually lossless 4K at 35MB/s” because it would be terrific, and I can conceive of it. Since I cannot conceive of “visually lossless 4K at 35Mb/s,” I just didn’t think that that was what he was writing. But your assessment of me, friend Jeremy, is that I don’t know the difference between my bits and bytes. I must leave a sorry impression.
[Jeremy Garchow] “This has been your 15 second conversation interrupter. We now return you to your regularly scheduled speculation symposium.
“This had me laughing for a good minute, but to be fair, its late, I’m still working and waiting on another Aspera feed, so I think I’m just about punchy enough to laugh at anything. Since its a Sizzle I’m working on, I currently also have the mother of all ear worms.
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[Tim Wilson] “but Blackmagic’s secret suite demo showed their visually lossless 4K codec at about 35mb/s off a Thunderbolt thumb drive.
KIDDING, but you know it’s coming.”
You *&^%er! My jaw actually dropped reading that line. And now I’m angry to know its not true. I want my 35MB/s 4K! I want it now!
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[David Lawrence] “[Chris Harlan] “Well, La-de-da. “Some” might also want to have Thunderbolt pass-through so that they can be using video i/o (other other items that require the end of the chain), which the Sonnet Echo does not have.”
Actually, port multipliers are really nice. “
I’m sure they are. I think I was responding more to the tone than anything else. Actually, I wouldn’t mind trying that box you linked to out on my 8 core. For my MacBook Pro, though, the drives generally need to be pretty portable so they are usually G-RAIDS or Glyphs. Also, pass through is important to me. I will probably be getting an Echo, anyway, since I have an MXO2 mini, and Sonnet now officially supports it. I’m sick of the spring in the PC Card slot deciding its had enough of whats in there, tossing the card, and bringing about the inevitable kernel panic. Of course, I may just get a little Black Magic box for the Macbook Pro since its about the same price as the Sonnet. Of course, the Echo’s good because it can read Sony cards now. So maybe… Anyway, I’m enjoying the LaCie adaptor, and that I now have easy access to my stacks of eSATA RAIDS . So, there.
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[Michael Hadley] “What make/model adapter are you describing? URL?
Thanks!”
Sorry, I’m typing this between Aspera downloads. And, idiotically, I’m referring to a thread from a week or two ago and just expected everybody to know what I was talking about. Silly me.
It’s the LaCie eSATA adapter. See it here:
https://www.engadget.com/2012/04/05/lacie-esata-hub-thunderbolt-series/
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[Chris Kenny] “[Chris Harlan] “Popped it out of the box. Plugged it in. Plugged a Glyph 4 TB (2 platter, RAID 0). Zoom. Blackmagic saith: 185 MBs Write, 225 MBs Read. I’ll say more if there is more. When I have another break, I’ll try to G-RAIDs.”
It unfortunately does’t seem to support port multipliers, so it doesn’t enable cheap multi-drive eSATA enclosures. (At least that’s what I’ve seen reported; I haven’t been able to find a definitive answer.)
The Sonnet Echo can be used with several models of ExpressCard eSATA adaptor that support port multiplication, so that might be a better option for some.
“Well, La-de-da. “Some” might also want to have Thunderbolt pass-through so that they can be using video i/o (other other items that require the end of the chain), which the Sonnet Echo does not have.
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[Andrew Richards] “[Chris Harlan] “And, apparently, Ivy Bridge Xeons are supposed to ship in June.”
Those are the E3 series. Sandy Bridge E3 has been out for a year. The E5 series is what would go into a Mac Pro or any other dual CPU box. Those will be a while…
“Fair enough. So E3 would not be used? So we can go back to “Why aren’t they using Sandy Bridge?” The distinction of individual Xeon lines is something the eludes me.
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[Andrew Richards] “[Chris Harlan] “That’s what I thought, too. But the news is all over the place today about an Ivy Bridge Xeon release in June.”
Link?
“You’ve heard of Google, right?
But try this:
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[Andrew Richards] “[Phil Hoppes] “Sandy Bridge 8 core Xenon CPU’s are already out. I can buy them today.”
Parts, yes. Complete system from HP, ships in May.
Best,
Andy”And, apparently, Ivy Bridge Xeons are supposed to ship in June.
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[Andrew Richards] “[Chris Harlan] “I thought we knew with Sandy Bridge, but this Ivy Bridge release is so close on the heels, that there might be a bit of hope.”
Sandy Bridge launched over a year ago. It is only the Sandy Bridge E5 Xeon lineup that launched last month. “
Yes, of course. We’re talking about Xeons. What else would we be talking about with Mac Pros?
[Andrew Richards] “Intel ships their high-volume Core series chips much earlier than it does Xeons utilizing the same manufacturing process. Intel’s roadmap for the Xeon only has it getting the Ivy Bridge treatment in 2013.”
That’s what I thought, too. But the news is all over the place today about an Ivy Bridge Xeon release in June.