Chris Simpson
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Thank. You Michael.
That worked. Odd I’m sure I tried that early but…
Anyway job done (literally) on to the next one.
C.
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Help. I seem comepletely unable to fix this with panning, even exporting mono gets a interview audio void.
I’m completely bamboozled by a) why this happened, and more importantly b) why I can’t fix this.
why I can’t get the interview audio into the centre of a mix. I have I guess two idnetical mono inteview sound files one panned full left -1, one full right 1, moving either to 0 it just disappears. I’ve even exported a full pro res file imported it into Final Cut on another Mac Pro and tried it there same thing.
Mayday.Mayday.
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Thanks guys.
So, given the Areca is top of line raid controller card, and miniSAS is a good pipe through which the data is put, then faster drives would be your recommendation?
Don’t worry I won’t hold you to it. I’ve had suggested drives, particularly Caviar Green drives maybe a limiting factor to what is an ambitious amount of data to move.
I’ve had Hitachi Deskstars recommended by both my RAID vendor and Proavio. I see mention of Caviar Black, Enterprise drives, the latter quite expensive. Compatibility & drive bang for the $?
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Yes, me too, did I miss anything, anything at all, even vaguely or obliquely, remotely about Mac Pro? Would the opening keynote include this normally, even if they are only interested in consumer toys?
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Hi Luis,
Thats very kind of you. I will be in touch. I’m happy to replace these green drives, should it prove to be the issue in the end I was intending to upgrade from 1TB drives to 2TB soon anyway.
It’s in slot 4, this is an old-ish Mac Pro 1,1, and to run x16 graphics in slot 1 and the raid card at full speed in x8, the only profile that fit is an alternate PCI express profile of 16, 1, 1, 8. My vendor was always keener to run the raid controller in slot 2, but there just were not the lane capacity, I’d be happier myself as in slot 4 is under internal drive bays 3 & 4, which are often quite warm.
It’s a very long public holiday weekend in the UK, (our Queen’s diamond jubilee), not that it matters, save for an opportunity (and unfortunately) I have too large a project to move and needs to be completed, and of course, it’s sat on the RAID, and although I’ll have to soldier on, it should be complete by Sunday night. If it’s alright I’ll email Monday. If you don’t mind.
Thanks again. And to Steve & Jon. A great place The Cow!
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Jon,
I was surprised when I took the drives out to find they were caviar green, I knew they were WD, from raid web gui or disk utility, but was surprised as it was not my decision (don’t put a lot if stock, in the green version of anything, be it wind farms that dont work, or electric cars, how green is that charge generated, or those exotic battery materials) but it was the raid vendor’s decision and to be fair they have worked well for a couple years, until about 4-5mths ago, when the 2nd highpoint card was removed (and I’m beginning to wonder if that may in fact by fine), so it begs the question what drives would be happy to see in proavio raid, I may as well upgrade to 2tb drives, so caviar black (Shane Ross suggested in the FCP forum)? But I’ve been reading around today, and read that there may or may not depending on who you read on the web, a TLER issue with consumer WD so should go RE4 but not RE4GP, or hitachi ultrastar, or maybe maybe not deskstar, or seagate not barracuda, but enterprise constellation, etc, I read and read and there’s a plethora of recommendations, negative reports and technical jargon that washes back & forth, over the plain “I’m the driver, not the mechanic” in me.
So if you have an opinion, as a rep of the enclosure manufacturer (and i appreciate other drives are available), what drives would you reccommend from experience and customer feedback (I’ll email if it’s at all tricky)?
Steve,
Areca has a US office for its US customers and a worldwide one in Taiwan, for the rest, according to tge website, while I’m happy to contact either, timezones (12hrs from the UK) and potentially (although i doubt it) a language barrier (Taiwan) at least make it difficult to call Areca, I’ll email though.
Moreover thank you both for your time.
I’m feeling it isn’t the card, problems pre date it, although I appreciate tuning it, might help, i’m still thinking its either drive related, or (at a stretch) mac pro related (although the internal raid seems fairly quick and fairly consistent on test). It’s just annoying, I’m sure there’s a rapid and reliable RAID trapped trying to get back out for business but its a proving expensive issue to work through!
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Thanks for the reply Steve, I did not think my simple math really would be how it works, although I did feel the higher the number the more likely it would be indicative of it’s capability, in much the same way as racecar horsepower is not the whole story on top speed, but it’s fair to say you’d expect a corvette motor to give a car a higher top speed than a motor out a Hyundai.
And moreover historically this mac pro and enclosure has given 750+ on both write and read, and a nearly flat trace.
I was hoping that someone might recognise this trace for what it is, it’s distinctive and nearly always the same, the earth quake on read speeds and a distinct kink in write. Although (maybe being too simple again) i feel the earth quake on read trace is where the heart of the problem is.
As to vendors I’m based in the UK, the specialist vendor who I have worked with is very good, and replaced the first highpoint card at his expense, always available at the end of a phone, and in every way superb but i feel has run out of ideas on this one.
I need a sort of a diagnostic service, which needs to work, via email and/or something like Teamviewer. While more IT savvy than everyone I know, I’m an editor, and by no measure an IT expert.
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The extra money, at least for a solution is not a problem, certainly not bothered by token greenism, but I could have sworn caviar green were 7200rpm, nothing on the drive, and spec sheet only say “intellipower”. So Caviar Black the best? I’m always partial to WD scorpio black for my 2.5 Ninja drives, I’ve always been partial to Seagate Barracudas for 3.5″ internal drives.
So fastest, reasonably quiet, reliable, 7200 rpm 3.5″ drives for RAID use? Caviar Black?
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I think you’re the biggest thing about the D4 is the clean uncompressed HDMI (10bit as well?) as there is nothing else save anyone using Nikon glass that’s revolutionary about the specs. I imagine at somewhere like Atomos there’s a huge sigh of relief, as nikon has broken the unwritten cartel to deliberate cripple of the hdmi by the camera manufacturers (as they are camcorder manufacturers), I think this makes it a lot more difficult for canon (on 5dmk3) not to have a clean hdmi out, likewise the GH3 (although fair play for at least allowing the hacking to go unhindered), and Sony as well. I’d expect clean hdmi to be the norm within 18mths, and further convergence and hybridisation of DSLR & camcorders.
Now I only need prices to come down on SSDs! For 6 ninjas.