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I think all of you have missed the most important point in Walter’s post:
MEDIA DRIVES!. In my experience, there is no substitute for reliable, high speed RAID

[Mamba_admin]

Thanks Kris

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wow! this has to be the longest thread i’ve ever come across at creative cow. you guys need girlfriends

[Mamba_admin]

Actually, the speed difference is significant. For instance, on a 14 disk 3.4 TB XServe RAID(RAID 50) I measured throughput at 365MB/s, whereas with my 10 disk 1.8TB array(RAID 0) I measured throughput at 480MB/s.
You may remark that 365MB/s is way fast enough for HD, but bear in mind that performance decreases markedly after the drive becomes over half full.

However, you’re 100% right: A RAID array without fault tolerance is foolhardy, to say the least. If the OEM option is out of one’s price range, I’d recommend two RAID 5 PCI 8 port cards with ‘hot swap’ and ‘hot spare’ capability. Populate both cards fully, stripe each with RAID 5 including one hot spare on each. Then, either in MacOSX Disk utility, or in the cards’ RAID Admin utility(if it’s supported), stripe across both arrays with RAID 0, effectively resulting in a RAID 50 array. Performance should be more than satisfying.
Bear in mind that, at present, the above is not yet possible in the newest(PCIe) G5’s.

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I’d be interested to know, too, as I’m in the process of upgrading our facility. I’m very keen on the VideoHub for our control room, and scalability plus ability to save different configurations are important factors for us.

[Mamba_admin]

Matt Dowling was one of the pioneers of Digital Voodoo.

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I’m achieving Read/Write speeds of 480MB/s.
My config is as follows:
10 Seagate 200GB SATA Drives – 8 Connected to a Sonnet Tempo-X SATA 4+4 + 2 on Apple Internal Bus.
I’ve created a RAID level 0 volume with these.
My System is located on a 200GB WiebeTech Fire800 External.

Throughput is plenty good enough to cut HD with.

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I would like to know too…

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Obviously learning better spelling and grammar:-) hehehe

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i would like to trash my motion prefs. where do i find them?