James Reid
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On july 7, 2007, the power supply issue was acknowledged to me personally by Sonnet.
My friend received his beefed up replacement Aug 21, 2007.Note: the following relates only to the original case,
NOT the new Fusion D500P E-series.The site with the warning sticker is still available advertising the old lower powered enclosure.
The top of the page promotes the $2,295.00 2.5 TB model (with 5 drives of course).
The rest of the page is all about the empty Fusion D500P,
(no longer being sold by Sonnet) which has been replaced by the Fusion D500P E-series.https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/FUSD5P25TB/
The note at the bottom of the page states:
“Note: This enclosure has been
qualified for up to a 4-drive RAID
(not a 5-drive RAID), and only for
drives with capacity up to 500GB
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[Kevin Wild] “They now don’t sell the chasis’ separate.”
Well actually they do.
It’s the Fusion D500P E-series.https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiond500p-eseries.html
This may be pertinent.
A friend of mine bought the original Fusion 500P 5-Bay last December.
He populated it with 5 Maxtor Maxline Pro 500GB Raid edition SATA2 drives.
This was configured as Raid 0 with SoftRaid.
The first problem he had appeared to be with one of the Bays.
The enclosure was replaced.
After using new firmware update, the Raid would mount (sometimes).
Running DiskTester would cause the raid to fail.
My friend blamed the problem on DIskTester.In my search around the net I found an amended web page where Sonnet now stated that the enclosure was not rated to be used with 5 drives, only 4.
Hmmm.
On a hunch I looked up the power requirements for the Maxtors.
The total for the five was 150 watts at startup and 50 watts idle.
I contacted Sonnet support and got this reply:“We started putting that sticker on the last batch of Fusion 500P’s we shipped as we were noticing problems. Shortly after that, we beefed up the power supply, changed the product SKU and started shipping everything with drives in them.”
(the new Fusion D500P E-series removes this restriction.)The power supply in the original version was 80 watts.
Not nearly enough to safely run the 5 Maxtors at once.The enclosure was replaced by Sonnet at no cost with the now standard 180 watt supply.
No more problems.
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[mortimer heathcliff] “no additional rendering needed”
Are you sure?
I just ran the following test twice using FC 6.0.1 (and QT 7.1.6) with a fully rendered 2 minute DVCPro HD 1080i60 sequence containing 23 clips.Export to QuickTime movie “current settings”, “self contained”: 38 seconds
Export to QuickTime movie “current settings”, “self contained” and “render all frames”: 2 minutes 33 seconds
So recompression was occurring.
Importing both clips to a new project with a DVCPro 1080i60 easy setup, FCP reports the file that wasn’t recompressed as 1920×1080 and requires rendering.
The file that was recompressed is 1280×1080 and doesn’t require rendering. -
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You are welcome.
Sorry about the spelling mistakes… just re-read my post again. -
My experience with “surround” audio goes back to the early 70s when matrixed surround (SQ, and QS) for LPs was all the rage.
George Lucas’ “Star Wars,” (1977) was one of the first films encoded with the new “Dolby Stereo” which kindled the desire for consumer mutli speaker surround playback.
In 1982, Dolby launched “Dolby Surround -
I don’t mean to cloud the issues here, but does it matter that soon we’ll have FCP 6.0.2 ?
On display in the Sony Booth at IBC was a new alpha version of FCP (6.02a) with 1080 50P.
See this page at HDforIndies for more details.https://www.hdforindies.com/2007/09/ibc-news-red-sony-xdcam-ex-new.html
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This Apple doc may come in handy:
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“G5 MacTel Quad 8”
Is that some new mutated product, or did you build that yourself?
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Apperently, the latest Pro Application Support 4.0.2 released today fixes that issue and others.
See my post on the Apple FCP forum.https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1118725&tstart=0