Kevin Duffey
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I’ve just built myself a “cheap” editing workstation. AMD FX-8350 8-core, 32GB 2133 Geil RAM, Samsung 830 SSD 256GB boot, 1TB and 2TB 7200rpm drives, bluray burner, and a ATI W5000 video card (workstation graphics). Put it in with a 1200watt p/s and a the H100 water cooler in an Antec case with 7 fans. Little loud, but nothing I am not used to after a day of use.
Total cost was about $1600 or so.
I will add one very cool add that I found.. given that I plan to buy the BMCC 4K Camera, and also have their Shuttle 2 SSD recorder for my canon T2i HDMI out, I wanted the ability to work with SSD drives quickly. There is a known problem for many SSDs though, the issue of “trim” that happens to render the SSD useless (loses frames badly while recording) after you fill it up once and delete the files via a USB 2/3 dock. The problem is that the TRIM command can’t be issued via USB. It only works via SATA.. or as I found out, esata. So I found some nice esata capable docks for $40 or so, the problem is, they were only 3gbps, basically sata2, not the 6gbps sata3. Just so happens the only dock I could find that supported HD/SSD sata 1/2/3 drives that had esata 6gbps is this one called RocketStor 5322 (I think that’s it). It has dual drive bays, with dual 6gbps esata connectors.. so you can effectively mount two hot-swap drives at a time. They even have an add-in card for about $150 that would allow you to do Raid with the dock and 2 drives.
Another bonus.. my beefy system I want to use for potential virtual machine use (my day job is a software developer and I use virtual machines to mimic how our software will run in the cloud). With this dock, I can throw in any HD or SSD with any OS I want, a quick switch in the bios and it boots right from the external drive, full speed as if it were internal. Not bad for a $120 dock.
Anyway..thought I’d share.
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No..it’s purely video. However, when RAW CinemaDNG is added to the camera in a future firmware, you should be able to grab individual frames I would think.