Joe Murray
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Nice, when someone wants to have the last word, they say “enough already.” But there you go. I take it you work for Apple?
Over and out.
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I never referred to Mac Pros specifically. You’re right, everything SHOULD work just fine. Hopefully it will. My skepticism of recently updated Apple products is not arbitrary or dogmatic, it’s based on experience. Just because something SHOULD work does not mean that it will. I’ll probably be getting a quad in the next six months, but would not get one this soon after release.
Joe Murray
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Lots of us remember certain first generation Macs that had heat issues, or fan issues caused by Apple trying to avoid heat issues, and these problems were fixed quickly but were still very annoying to those who jumped right in and bought the very first version of a new configuration. It has nothing to do with whether Intel has tested the chip, it has to do with whether the entire Mac Pro quad system has been put under real world stress where things like excess heat and noise really show up as problems. So yes, in a sense early adopters of the 8 core will be beta testing this new configuration. I’m happy there are people like you who are willing to do this so I don’t have to. But the original poster asked for advice, and I stick with mine.
Joe Murray
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I agree with avoiding the first model version of anything…Mac, automobile, whatever. Apple does not test their software or hardware as thoroughly as users will; they’ll wait until we figure out what’s not quite right and then fix it with the next version.
If you don’t have a problem being an unofficial beta tester for Apple, then jump right into the deep end with the octopus.
Joe Murray
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CRTs pull more power than anything else you’ve got on your list. We don’t use the battery backup for CRTs, instead we just use surge suppression for those since you don’t lose any data when they shut down. And the LCD monitor for your computer isn’t going to pull nearly as much as the CRT broadcast monitor.
Joe Murray
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Just to add a specific testimonial to this thread, we had our two 8 Gig cards rolling in the same room as an electric arc furnace at a steel mill recently. When they fire up that arc furnace, the power lines that supply electricity to the furnace have a total of something like 60,000 kilowatts running through them, and create an incredibly powerful field of electromagnetic energy (the grip said he actually saw a C-stand move an inch or so on its own). During the initial surge of power, the camera stopped working, but once that surge was over, the camera powered back up and recorded to P2 without any more issues. We didn’t lose any media and were able to go on shooting. I’ve seen tape shot in the same situation and the electromagnetic field caused constant interference with the image on tape.
Joe Murray
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Just ordered that 2TB Lacie FW800 from Newegg for $672. The Promax I have requires 8 SATA ports so I would have had to backup the CalDigit unit over the network. Thanks for the tip on the Lacie.
Joe
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Spoke with Leslie in CalDigit support just now and he said they are testing a new board in the 5 drive chassis that should take care of the problem. Some consolation anyway.
In the failure your unit had, was the data recoverable? Or did you even bother with that since you had your backup files?
Joe Murray
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I’ve got a 2TB Promax RAID I can use for backup temporarily. How did you resolve the situation with CalDigit? Did they take the drives back and refund your money or what?
Joe Murray
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Actually there is a keystroke for kerning characters individually, it’s the same as Photoshop – click the text cursor where you want to kern and use the option key and the arrow left and right keys. But I agree that FCP needs a WYSIWYG text generator. It’s a real pain to position stuff with the 3D Title Tool.
Joe Murray