[Matt Smitherz]

I do not exactly understand….
the INTERNAL drive (1 x1,5 TB) will be connected to one of the ”Four SATA-300 ports controlled by the MB chipset”.

eSata shouldbe ExternalSata (isn’t just the connection difference? is the eSata protocol different from the -internal-SATA??

The eSata is not out of a PCI card (this is a Mini-Itx card, has just 1 PCI slot for the videocard).
The eSata controller is straight out of the motherborad, or better ”One eSATA-300 port controlled by the MB chipset”.

And the external stardom HD (2 x1,5TB raid 1=1,5Tb total) has an hardware raid controller hooked to its own eSata card….

[Matt Smitherz]

[Scott Francis] “I run a 60GB SSD main drive as well and put other files elsewhere, no problem here so far. If you have esata, I would recommend using it as a “render too” drive, I keep all my source files on one drive and do renders to another and have seen better speed tha”

Thanks.
and Yes, the Gigabyte H55N has 1x eSata out,
https://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3455#sp
which I can connect to the Stardom dual bay raid 1 (eSata & Usb2 too).
Have also a small nice 2.5” HD usb2 eSata small drive (which need to be powered though).

Actually the HD would be (if I have understood yr suggestions)
C: drive 80 GB SSD (internal) ->OS
E: drive 1,5 tb 3.5” (internal) ->Render files
G: External Bay drive(s): 1,5 eSata (raid1) ->Source files

For the Shuttle Pro I got it covered some years ago (the first Shuttle pro), bought a (partially) Hercules’ rebranded one, bundled with a not-so-good PCI firwire card (Via chipset if I remember well)
https://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1148643,00.asp
There was not the Adorage titler though.

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[Nigel O'Neill] “80 GB for a C: drive might be a bit on the low side. Your programs will fill them quickly, especially with temporary/render files which are not always easy to track down. Generally, you should keep your drive below 80% ca”https://www.stardom.com.tw/sohotank_st2_feature.html

ABout the 470& 48O Nvidia, read posts and tests here on forum, and look like Cuda improvements are not that much there.

About the Heat dissipation, this case looks like the best dissipating one as SFF (in relative terms…).

I was in WA last week, can understand what you talk ’bout.

Thanks

[Matt Smitherz]

and now we need just a bunch of tutorials on those ”special” effects & time lapse….

[Matt Smitherz]

Had the same problem, try istalling this

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

[Matt Smitherz]

Try sending/posting the link to the file, will see if I can open it

[Matt Smitherz]

Please see my previous posts, I succesfully open both Xvid & Divx.
H264 after quicktime plugin installation.
Cheers.

[Matt Smitherz]

Please check my answer to the some posts below (AVi-Xvid), maybe this can help.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/875251

[Matt Smitherz]

Allo everybody, hope I can help.

On my Vegas 8a Pro I could import split audio & video tracks Xvid files after installing the freeware RivaFLV Player (not because of the played but because of the inlcuded FFDshow codec which did the job.

https://www.rivavx.com/index.php?id=422&L=3
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

On a previous Vegas 6 installation I succesfully opened them following these tips for Casio MPEG4 videos.
https://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=78626&forum_id=14
https://www.click-now.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4090.html

I both cases problem was I could not split audio from video in vegas’ timeline, having only the audio track out of it.

Cheers.