Harm Millaard
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Steven,
From what I have seen on the Areca site in terms of performance, there is not much difference between Raid0, Raid5 and Raid6 if there are 8 disks in the array. With a lesser number of drives, the difference is larger, definitely in the advantage of Raid0, but also with a larger risk of losing data. On another system I have a 6 disk Raid5 array and I once had two disks fail on me. Replacing them one at a time, rebuilding the array after each replacement did restore integrity without losing any data.
For security reasons I’m even contemplating a Raid6 if I use 8 disks in one array. The reason for my question is twofold, on the one hand bandwidth, does performance improve if you have 2 disks in a Raid0 array on the IHCR bus and the other 6 in a Raid5/6 array on the PCI-e bus, or on the other hand all 8 disks on the PCI-e bus in a Raid5/6.
Looking at performance data for an 8 disk Raid5 array, you would have probably something like 200+ MB sustained read/write speeds.
Harm Millaard
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Windows can not currently use more than 4 GB. However with Vista coming soon and the expected ($$$$) upgrade from Adobe, I’m hopefull that I can then use the 8 GB.
My boot disk will be a single Raptor. No booting from a Raid.
Harm Millaard
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In general SATA drives are at least twice as fast as firewire drives and nearly three times as fast as USB drives. If you prefer external drives, look for e-SATA drives.
Harm Millaard
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Either export as movie from PP using MSDV AVI or use Adobe Media Encoder to export as MPEG DVD. In the latter case I suggest to export elementary streams, not program streams.
The resulting files need to be imported into Encore as assets.
Harm Millaard
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I answered on the Adobe forums, but to repeat, have a look at:
They have a very good reputation and they offer all kinds of custom-built systems.
Harm Millaard
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The trial version does not support HDV. You have to get the full version for that.
Harm Millaard
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The Z1 does not support 720, only 1080
Harm Millaard
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Definitely.
Harm Millaard
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Either check with Matrox, or try with OHCI without the Matrox. Does that work?
Harm Millaard
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Correct, because there is no PAR setting in WM9.
Harm Millaard