Curran Giddens
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I just picked up a couple of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB SATA drives. These are the best I’ve used so far… Now I just need to get rid of these Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB drives, they don’t work with the Sonnet Tempo-X cards.
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I got my shipment email too. I imagine that there are quite a few discs included, along with the manuals etc..
In the product requirements section for the Final Cut Studio package, it says you need 41GB of space for all the loops and templates!
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https://www.barefeats.com/hard45.html
I don’t have the Seagate drives yet. I am still stuck with 4 Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB drives which have been nothing but trouble. I need to get those Seagate drives ASAP but I just bought my FCP Studio upgrade and can’t afford 4 x $329 at the moment. Barefeats have done some tests using the Sonnet card and Seagate drives. Look for the Seagate/slot 3 results (8 drives) (the Decklink will take slot 4). If only using 4 drives expect about half that. You will also want to use Soft RAID 3.1.3 to partition off the last sectors of the drives to avoid the speed decrease as the RAID reaches capacity. This way you can make sure it never drops below your bandwidth requirements (180MB/sec?). I really like the Firmtek enclosures… I am using 2 of them at the moment.
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I would recommend this exact same setup. I am currently using a dual 2.5 GHz. G5, nVidia 6800 Ultra (with 30″). I am using the Sonnet Tempo-X 4+4 right now, but I will soon switch to the Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA 8. I am also getting the Multibridge Studio when available. I am using the Firmtek SeriTek external SATA enclosures. Just don’t use either the Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300GB SATA drives, or the Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB drives with the Sonnet cards. There seems to be an issue with these drives and a chip used on the Sonnet cards. I would recommend going for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB SATA drives. Can you think of another PCI card you would also need to use? I couldn’t, so I’m not worried about having all slots filled…
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I really hope those folks over at ReelStream will tap into the AG-HVX200 for uncompressed 4:4:4. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time already… Looks like I’ll be waiting for a lot longer….
The camera won’t ship until November! After that I still have to wait for the mod……….. Maybe sometime next year? -
I’m already sold! This has all the features I need. I can even hook up my 30″ Cinema Display! My 133 MHz. PCI-X slot in my 2.5 G5 is ready and waiting…
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Did you include the cost of the Blackmagic PCI Express Bridge card to allow the Multibridge Extreme to connect to PCI-X 133 MHz. G5 systems? I can’t find a price for the adapter.
Looks like I will be saving up for this system, Final Cut Studio, and the new Panasonic P2 AG-HVX200! I wonder how much that will cost me? ~$15k?