[Mitchji]

Hi,

Thats a good idea. The main advantage in this application would be buying a $20 tray (or reusing the same tray) rather than buying the whole FW enclosure (easier to swap a tray on a drive than remove/add a drive to an enclosure) for each drive.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Steve DSV] “ps – just going to be running one 23” Cinema HD for now.
“

Hi,

Consider a Dell 24″ instead of the Apple 23″. (There are also great deals available on the Dell 20″ widescreen and smaller sizes too).

Here is a review:
https://www.barefeats.com/lcd.html

Here is a recent dealmac price:
https://dealmac.com/deals/Dell-Ultra-Sharp-2405-FPW-24-Widescreen-LCD-display-for-899-shipped/89308.html
The Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24″ Widescreen LCD Monitor costs $1,199 with free shipping at Dell Home. Coupon code “$?JSFR8X2349BV” drops the price to $899.25. That’s tied for the lowest total price we’ve seen for this particular display. Features include a native resolution of 1920×1200, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 12ms response time, 16:10 aspect ratio, picture-in-picture, integrated 4-port USB 2.0 hub and flash card reader, and VGA, DVI-D, S-video, composite, and component video inputs. Coupon ends June 18 at 7 am ET or after 500 uses.

Here are some places to check for coupons/discounts:

Dealmac – todays listings
https://www.dealmac.com/

Dealmac archive:
https://dealmac.com/sections/displays-TVs.html

https://www.techbargains.com/dellcoupons.cfm

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

If you are planning to get the RAM from Apple just buy the mimimum from Apple then get the additional RAM from Crucial.com. That should save you enough that you can do both.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[jaser] “are you saying go to the “copy” tab in toast, choose, “cd/dvd copy,” then, “read from built-in…””

Yes!

You can also copy the VIDEO_TS folder to your hard drive and do it this way:
https://www.bobhudson.com/toast/

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

Using high quality media (Maxell, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden), burning at a lower speed, keeping the max bit rate to about 7 with AC3 audio is about all you can do.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[walter biscardi] “Drop SCSI and go Fibre Channel. Apple hasn’t supported SCSI for OS X and it’s up to the card / drive manufacturers to make it work. (notice Apple doesn’t sell a SCSI card or SCSI drives?) “

Hi,

The Medea Fibre Channel Video Raid reviewed here supports SCSCI Drives so you could migrate to Fibre Channel and use your SCSI drives:

https://www.barefeats.com/hard47.html

You might also want to check his benchmarks. A cheap SATA array is just as fast.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

I think its a very bad idea. First no upgrade will get you Dual G5 performance because the bus is slower.

Second if you ever have problems with your system you will always have to wonder if its the upgrade which is not unlikely.

Third the savings are not going to be that big. Refurbed Dual G5’s go for about $1,400. You can probably sell your system on Ebay for $200 to $500. How much will you save after the cost of the upgrade? Now figure in resale value. A Dual G5 is going to be worth quite a bit more in the future than a tricked out G4.

Small savings, risky compatibility and a slower system.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

RAID is overkill for HDV.

SATA is more reliable than FW.

You can easily have up to five internal SATA drives:
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/g5bracket/
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/1v4/

SATA external info:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard46.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Pete] “I also posted that I use BATCH capture.
“

Hi,

You did not post that you are using batch capture.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

From another forum:
Dell 2405FPW (24