[Keren Aarons]

Hi

This could be 1 of two things:

1: Your firewire card. Have you tried another card or put the one you’ve got in another PCI slot? Avid is particularly iffy when it comes to the cards they like.
2: Your RAID 0 config. Raiding is actually not always the best way to go, I’d try setting up my drives separately in plain old SATA mode and see what happens. Also try using an external drive like a G-Raid and see what happens.

I’m running a Mojo SDI on older equipment (Quad Core, 4 gigs Ram, Xp 32-Bit) and my system is as smooth as silk.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Keren

[Keren Aarons]

Hi

I think I have a much easier solution. Try this program: https://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

It sped up my file copying by 200 – 300% in Windows 2000 and Xp. We were having to digitise online footage onto other media drives and then copy them across 150 – 250 gigs a time and this program saved our life.

Let me know if it works.

Cheers

Keren

[Keren Aarons]

Hi Christopher

In the end, I never went with it as it was worked out to be more of a pain than it was worth. The job was only for 4 months and we managed without it. I’d still love to test my theory out though, as there are a lot of unloved Meridien Avids lying around post-production houses and I’d love to put them to good use. Especially when you’re working at offline 15:1 resolutions.

Cheers

Keren

[Keren Aarons]

Bob

Thanks for the comments.

I will install the gigabit ethernet cards tomorrow and see what happens. Hopefully, it will be OK – Chris’s machines seemed to be ok with it.

I already have a managed gigabit switch which the IT department doesn’t need at the moment so no money is being spent there. The only outlay thus far will be for the 4-port gigabit ethernet card which can be absorbed into the IT dep as they will find a use for it. Tiger Technologies has very kindly given me trial licenses of MetaLan to see if I can get it to work. I’m also testing everything on an unused Meridian system.

Hold your thumbs!

Cheers

Keren

[Keren Aarons]

Thanks for the input Chris.

I’d just like to make some clarifications.

The spare computer I have lying around is actually an 2 year old HP server box with plenty of RAM and processing power. I’ve already ordered a 4 port gigabit ethernet card for the server as you have suggested.

I think you’re right about the Firewire 800 drives being a bad choice. Luckily, the server machine I have has a built in RAID card with hot-swappable drives. Would high speed SATA drives in RAID work as an alternative? All our media is 2:1 SD so I don’t think it would be too taxing.

Regarding the client machines themselves, well they’re old. I’ve just used CPU-Z to try to identify the processor and motherboard manufacturing year. It’s not good news. The Compaq is an EVO W8000 with a single Intel Xeon processor running at 2.1 GHZ circa late 2002. The Intellistation is even older than I thought! It’s a 2001 model Symphony. Luckily, I can substitute it with another Compaq Evo. All machines only have 1 gig of ram, and we can’t upgrade that as it’s old RAMBUS Ram (why oh why did they think that was a good idea!)

I think I’m going to try it and see what happens – the alternative is hiring in a bunch of Avid certified SCSI drives which will cost 4x what this experiment is going to cost me, other than time and frustration 😉

I’ll let you all know how it goes. If anyone has any further advice or comments, please be sure to post or email me. Hoppefully Bob will reply with his infinite wisdom.

Cheers

Keren