Keith Koby
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Had know idea there was a music video from the beta band.
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Ouch.
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[Marcus Moore] “Where did you find pricing? Not doubting, just curious.”
not sure where frank got it. math probably…
(325 – connectors)/10 m = price per meter plus connectors.
so if you figure 50 or less for the transceivers and you’ll get 2750 for the fiber.
but I doubt that’s the cost. I imagine that there’s heavier costs in the transceivers than normal t-bolt and that they are extra special because they have to push the signal over fiber at 10 m or 50m or 100m. I would suspect that the fiber cost is closer in line to expensive 10 Gbe fiber plus extra costs for the fancy rubber around the outside. So start with 10Gbe rated fiber and then pad and then figure out how much the transceivers cost…
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[Jeremy Garchow] “They way I see it, Thunderbolt is a boon. It is data AND display. “
I think that is coolest part. If I had to build a facility all over again and t-bolt 2 monitors and mac pros are available I’d consider leaving all hardware in the datacenter and only running t-bolt over fiber to the t-bolt display in the edit suite. Probably along with one hd-sdi cable for switched monitoring, but that’s it.
Plenum rated machine control, hd-sdi, gigabit ethernet and fiber is expensive and a pain to run. We’ve got an average of 9 cables running to each edit station now. Those cables cost over a dollar/foot. Some significantly more than that. At hundreds of feet and dozens of stations, it adds up.
I know the new Mac Pro might look incredibly slick on a desktop, but imagine minimizing all of the cable to 15 and 20 ft patches in the data center. It’s way more organized and cost efficient.
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Hey Frank! what’s happening? Long time man!
A “little birdie” has told me that it is possible to saturate the 20 Gb t-bolt pipe with the 8 sled box. I didn’t get confirmation of the type of drives or stripe. I would imagine it’s got to be raid0.
20 Gbs = 2560 MBs
There has to be some overhead though.
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Bob – Do you achieve that with direct attach dual 8 Gb fibre channel? That is serious speed. It equates to 12 Gbs, which I know they have for fibre interconnects, but I’ve never seen on an HBA.
Keith
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But it does 4k so nobody will ever find it useful. It’s just marketing baloney.
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Thank you for weighing in, Mr. Impartiality.
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[Herb Sevush] “So go ahead, explain to me why I should give a damm if my editing system can handle 4K multicam any more than I care if it can handle 3D.”
I don’t believe I can explain to you why you should give a damn. Reread my first post for reasoning of why other media professionals care about processing power at price point and maybe it will sink in. 4k sources are way more common today than I suppose you care to admit.
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That is pretty nice. And that guy knows how to party.