Robert Ober
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[Clark Bierbaum] “Let’s get some real world bench marks to help with the decision process! The Pioneers get shot, the Settlers get the land!”
Yep, I have not yet checked barefeats.com so maybe soon.
I suspect folks are working on padded cases.
Y’all be cool,
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[Sascha Haber] ” Well, I just did…
Sold the Quadros, sold the Aja AND Decklink, the memory and everything MacPro 5.x
The Tin Can is on its way, two Areca TB Raids are ready, a miniMonitor will do the SDI/HDMI output and two 500 GB SSDs the external transport.”Hey,
You’re a brave man, you do know the rule(s) about 1.0 products, eh?
I wish you luck! Please let us know how it goes.
Robert:-)
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[jake blackstone] “Just wait a little. All those used PCI expansion chassis will become available, when users decide to move onto the nMP.”
Maybe, maybe not.
The folks with expansion chassis are mostly folks working on movies, etc. They (and me) have a lot of money and workflow invested in what they have. I betting most of those folks will wait many months or even years before upgrading. Can the AMD GPU’s really do what multiple Nvidias are currently capable of in many pro apps? How many folks can afford to replace SAS arrays and AJA cards with Thunderbolt devices in this economy and race to the bottom pricing for production/postproduction services?
But I am just a notalentwannabe so what do I know?
Y’all be cool,
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[Laco Gaal] ”
Rob, do you have your titan in the Mac Pro 4.1?”I do.
[Laco Gaal] “Do you have power issues?”
Nope, I have a FSP Booster X5 auxilary power supply. There is one left at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IZE5RE/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Newegg has an X3, but I could not find an X5 there. They are in short supply for some reason. Perhaps the X5 has been discontinued.
I have not done any custom work to my case so I have the side panel off because of the wires, but my Mac Pro is an a DIT cart sitting sideways so it’s fairly protected. There are threads in some forums on routing the wires from the X5.
Hope that helps,
Robert
PS: Anybody got any other ideas on a value priced expansion chassis? -
Hey,
Probably my IO Xpress PCIe card and my HBA for my LTO drive will go in the expansion chassis. Saw the NetStor at B&H I believe so that is in the running. I would put my BMD Intensity Pro (not really a Pro card but we won’t go there) in there also if it and the AJA would get along.
Thanks LGG man,
Robert:-) -
I really like my D800. And the new Nikon lenses are SHARP.
And of course you get a 36MP still camera in the bargain. As you may know, the D800 writes Quicktime files to the CF or SD card. The Blackmagic Shuttle will let you get uncompressed 422 out of the clean HDMI with no 20 minute limit. I have done streaming test with my D800 running for hours at a time, with only short pauses to change the battery about every two hours.
Did you buy the Canon?
Take it EZ folks,
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[Salvador Garza] “Were you able to hook up your LTO drive to the areca card?”
Well, It will connect but the RAID card will not recognize the tape drive. I called them and they said they have no support for tape drives with their RAID adapters. They say this is common but I am pretty sure I have used the builtin RAID adapters in Dell servers for tape drives.
My related problem is that the Mac Pro (pre 2013) does not have enough slots for my needs so I am going to have to buy an expansion chassis.
Take it EZ,
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[Chris Murphy] “LTFS is supported on LTO6, they aren’t mutually exclusive.”
Wasn’t say they were. My point was to suggest that folks not use LTFS due to some of it’s issues. It might be OK in a larger automated environment but for the smaller and one man shops using something like BRU (I am not associated with them other than I like and use the product.) would probably work better and you can make a CD with what is needed to restore the tape.
Glad you chimed in, Chris.
Y’all be cool,
Robert A. Ober -
What Bob said plus let me emphasize BACKUP TO TAPE.
All of folks you that continue to use drives for long term storage are asking for trouble. We are loosing movies and other creative output because folks are not backing up/archiving to tape.
Did I mention you should BACKUP TO TAPE. As Bob mention that currently would be LTO6. And not LTFS IMHO.
Believe it or not, the best long term storage, particularly for “finished” movies is film. Kodak has products specifically designed for long term archiving.
Good luck with your upgrading,
Robert A. Ober -
Hello Again,
I reran the speed test with the AJA System Test and the Blackmagic Design.
I ran the AJA test with a 4GB file size but BMD recommend a 5GB file size so that is what I used on the BMD test. The detail box on the AJA test showed a lot of fluctuation but that may be because I have written a few files to the array and it may need to be defragged. It is 95% or so empty. I am pretty sure there was less fluctuation of the speed when it was completely empty.
Proavio’s recommendation for an inexpensive (relative term of course) RAID controller:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151100
I believe Bob or someone said that ARECA is not great but so far it is working for me in a 4,1 Mac Pro.
Hope that helps,
Robert A. Ober
