[Frank Gothmann]

[Chris Harlan] “[Rick Lang] “Chris, what you say certainly could be true about the initial copper implementation of 10Gbps Thunderbolt but the vision from day one has been to move to optical 100Gbps Thunderbolt. That has to be for a different audience.
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Yes, they want the technology to be robust and have plenty of future potential. How long do you think it will be until you see that 100G TBolt? 100Gps isn’t a goal to reach, like getting to the moon; it’s room to grow, like expanding a Fwy.”

Haven’t we seen it all before? FireWire S1600 and S3200, the follow up to FW800: anounced 2007 with products expected to be shipped in 2008.
FireWire S800T another follow-up with higher speeds, then yet another one in 2009 which was supposed to boost speeds to 6.4 Gbit/s.
It was revolutionary, it did video and data, was usable for networking and in was supposed to go optical.
And its dead now because most people just didn’t care.

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I believe people here firmly overestimate the importance and success of TB. Even within the Mac world its adoption rate isn’t exploding, on the PC side it is virtually non-existant. There are just a handful of TB mobos with the older 1155 socket on the market while there are zero for Intel’s most recent socket 2011 and x79 chipset with apparently no plans or attempts by the mobo manufacturers to implement it. For the average consumer, USB3 is more than enough and substantially cheaper. For the enterprise and server market PCIe is and will be the way to go. Leaves the video crowd, on the mac side, with certain mac models.
It’s a niche connector within a niche within a niche – just like FW800. I doubt that’ll change, and I doubt Intel sees that much different in the long-run.

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Yes, Craig, I am sure that’s the reason. What else could it be. Makes perfect sense.

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No quite sure what you mean. LTFS behaves just like mounting an external hard drive. Ie. if you need to pull just an individual file for a client you mount your tape, you pick the file you want and copy it to your local drive using the Finder or Windows Explorer. Simple.

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[Frank Gothmann]

[Craig Seeman] “This? What CPU? It’s i7 at best, not Xeon which is what a MacPro has always been.”

You know you can install a Xeon in those motherboards without a problem. It’s certified for Intel Xeon E3s. It’s just not a xeon based chipset so some features unique to a Xeons won’t be supported (eg. ECC memory). And, of course, it is not a dual socket system but neither are all Macpros and ECC isn’t that relevant for what people want to use such a system here.
Given Apple’s lackluster hardware io – few sata ports and pci slots-, most of the advantages of a Xeon are lost anyhow in a single socket Macpro.

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The vc100 does a decent but not fantastic job converting fields based formats. With slow frame rates it’s pretty bad. 24 to 25 and vice versa is pretty much unusable for higher end needs. As far as scaling is concerned, it’s quite good (better than Kona and BMD) but, again, if you want the best upscale quality you can possibly get it’s either a Snell Alchemist or Archangel.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Depends. Done it with FCP and Gluetools in the past, not often on Mac anymore these days. Media Express (DPX) and Avid (DnxHD 444) most recently.
Try Media Express and set your Deckling prefs to use 4:4:4. Using that setting my JVC imediately switches to 3G 4:4:4 when I open Media Express. If your display has a signal indicator you will know that it gets the connection and you can troubleshoot from there.

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Yep, no problem here with a Decklink Extreme 3D. Going out via 3G 444 at 23.98 works fine going to a JVC Monitor and to an SR-Deck.
I presume you’ve set the 3G option in the card’s preferences, right?

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[Mark Dobson] “It has worked without a problem for over 4 years and I’ve no doubt that were I to keep using it it would continue working well. “

I’d be very surprised if your new iMac will make it through the same number of years under heavy load.

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Yes, we’re writing directly to LTO5 over the network. We have all our projects stored on Linux servers sharing out via 10GB Ethernet. The LTO PC simply hooks in via regular 1GB Ethernet.
LTFS cannot span, that’s true, BRU can. However, with the arrival of LTO6 and the even greater capacity I am not sure if that’s really a big issue. I had to “span” only a couple of times and I did what you’d also do if you were to copy the files to a hard drive – ie. divide the files in two folder chunks and copy one after the other.
Regarding system back-ups:
LTFS is really like copying data to an external hard drive. Simple. If you want to back-up your systems for disaster recovery you want software for that.
From what you have written, I’d consider the following: Install some dedicated hard drives for online availability according to your needs on the LTO-PC (I don’t know how big your business is but system back-ups are usually not that big in size), back-up your system drives with something like Acronis True Image (incremental or whatever you want/need). Have the LTO-PC write them to LTFS.
If one of your systems need a fix you can simply restore from the Acronis images on the LTO-PC over network in a very short period of time. Since it’s hooked up to the network, you can access it from any machine in you facility. If something happens to the LTO-PC or the backed-up images or drives, you have the golden LTFS back-up on the shelve.
Projects and video stuff you can write directly to LTFS. We don’t even have a monitor attached to it. We access it via remote desktop and simply copy the files from the source locations on the servers to the attached tape drive once a project is out of the door. Once a tape is full the next tape goes in.

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