Mark
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Kodak 250D vision 7205 will do just fine going to HDcam…. the stock anyway. Be very careful about focus, exposure etc.
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I have 3 of these things and they are unreliable…. as is support from LaCie…. they respond in 3 days and tell you to do the same things you always do… repair permissions etc. and then they tell you to experiment with the cables etc. I am really fed up with LaCie….. but I am curious about these settings to prevent spin down… can you be more specific.
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Just stay away from the Swiftdata array for the g5…. didn’t work and really bad customer service.
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Well I have a room full of old fw400 drives which have their own unique tales of failure. Why would I buy the LaCie fw800 only to have to use it as a fw400? Undependable is undependable and support that responds in 3 days with already tried repairs is not really support. But hey the things worked for 9 months anyway. I guess we have to just start thinking of these things as disposable. Use em for a couple of projects and then throw em away.
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I am going through this exact problem. In my case the raid was just plain intermittently disappearing so I luckily copied all captures off to another drive and reformatted the 2 big LaCie individually and one of them is now constantly powering down and disappearing from the desktop. LaCie tech support responded in 3 days with the usual suggestions…. repair permissions, run update tool etc… things which I indicated I had already done. I wish I could report the same level of optimism others have offered on this topic. I just emailed my reply to their response and figure I might hear back in a few days. So that leaves me with over a week of waiting for ??? LaCie had been pretty good in the past…. replacing 2 power supplies for drives but only for the ones still within warrantly coverage. I fear these things may have a limited life expectancy and the truth is I am just plain tired of all these undependable drive issues so I bought a Huge 4110. The thing is so freaking loud
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I might be interested … I have a new g5 quad, would this array work? What is available in the pci express world to control? Also, what kind of a reserve are u thinking? I really don’t want to start bidding just to find out.
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Thanks guys… well I have had some drive problems in the past month …(one disappeared from the raid and left the material on it lost in it’s wake) and now I notice that even when I completely reformat the drives and stripe again, I am getting pretty slow write speeds… 50 vs read @ 120 and still getting the jerky captures with 99% of the drive capacity available. Do these drives wear out? Geeez only had em a year or so.
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Hey thanks guys. I have a swiftdata in the g5 and this project is using a raid 0 with about 39% of capacity available but does seem a lot slower than when I first installed it. I am getting read-70 write-40 (slower than my offline Lacie Big disk) So would you suggest Disk warrior? I really haven’t been defragging much in the past couple of years.
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thanks Jerry. I did clean Tiger. Project is basic unc sd. It seems that the crashes are occurring right at the beginning of renders. I trashed prefs, changed disk designation, turned off spotlight. Each time I do a repair permissions though it seems like a whole bunch of repairs to widgets is going on…. maybe I will trash the widget off the dock.
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My experience is that “trashing prefs” will not change this. I have not had any font choice in any cg text in FCP for years. Using title 3d is the only alternative and the only thing I can tell you there is be sure to save often because title 3d crashes FCP constantly. Otherwise use another titling app…. MOtion, Live type, Boris etc
Good luck