Devin Crane
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It’s not USB 3, this has been developed by Apple and Intel and is mulitpurposed, It can handle a display, storage, network at the same time without having 4 or 5 different ports on the computer. I’m sure it will do much more than that in regards to storage and networking since it can go upto 100 meters before loosing speed. Very cool and promising.
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Upgrade Controllers= Nope, there are no upgrades from Apple to do this.
Upgrade Drives= Possibly but will be hard to find. The X-raid only uses PATA drives which are hard to come by and the largest we found recently were 500GBs. 750s which were the largest are no longer being made not sure you will even 500s we looked hard and finally found some last year.
Your best bet is purchase a new SATA or SAS drive Array. We bought a Sans Digital 8bay storage with 1.5 TB drives with RAID5 via Highpoint Card. 12TB RAID5 machine for under $2,000 that’s 2x as fast as our X-Serve RAID.
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You might consider the opposite and go RAID-1 in to protect yourself from a drive failure.
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What codec were you using?
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What I failed to mention however you will want more than 2GB of Ram in your machine, even though FCP is still 32bit more than likely you will have other programs running in the background and the overall machine will take up quite abit. 4GB is a minimum 6-8GB depending on what machine your looking at is optimal.
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Not True, FCP7 is still 32bit. However reports are that FCP7 is somewhat faster but probably not to the degree that you are looking for in that it won’t utilize all your processors like we all dream of. We all have to wait for Quicktime X to be developed further before FCP will start utilizing 64bit. Right now it is still relying on Quicktime 7 which is 32bit and almost 20 years old.
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I only hope that their roadmap for video editing in Quicktime X is sooner than 10.8. Oh well better to have it right than major buggy.
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And how much did you pay for that System? He’s considering a Drobo or Lacies 4 big Quadra, the setup that I listed in my post runs circles around those guys for roughly the same price with twice the storage space. 270 Mega Bytes is usually fast enough for most work, and that’s at 75% capacity.
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We just put together a 12TB Raid 5 solution from OWC (Other World Computing) Consisting of a Sans Digital TR8M 8 Bay storage array , 8 – 1.5 TB drives, and a Highpoint 2314 eSata card all for under $2k. Right now it’s got all but 2tb full and we are able to get over 270 MB/s out of it. It’s the biggest bang for the buck that we’ve found.
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Wayne Carey writes- “This only true if you tell it to boot to 64bit. From the article I read at CNET.com, you have to press and hold the 6 and the 4 keys at the same time on boot for your Mac to boot to the 64bit version of the system kernel. “
This could be true but I find it odd since almost all of the system files are re-written in 64bit including most of the main applications that come with it. Mac OSX has been 64bit for quite awhile but not everything in it has been, now to my understanding most if not all is 64bit.