Sean Bates
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Kevin, you sir are a life saver. As in you saved the life of my computer which I was about to throw out the window over this issue. Did your trick and everything is working perfectly! Thanks for the tip.
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I considered getting a Pegasus2 but I went with the Areca b/c I heard the P2 doesn’t use enterprise drives. Areca with WD REs ended up being about the same price for a comparable size.
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Hi Bob
I’m sure you’re right about published results (and mine too). Running the Aja System Test, the results actually start instantly at around 1100/MBs on writes then settle in around 800. Reads definitely start slower–around 500 MBs then they quickly ramp up to 800-900 and eventually settle in around 1000. Not sure if that sucks or not but I guess the good news is that this is not a shared system. Thanks again for your help.
Sean
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Hi Bob
I appreciate the response and you’ve definitely put my mind at ease. It’s not so much that I’m disappointed with the results, just concerned that the write speeds are much lower than what I’ve seen in third party reviews. I’m actually thinking the issue might be a simple matter of cabling. I swapped out the 10′ OWC cable I was using for the three footer that came with the unit and now I’m getting writes around 900MBs and reads over 1000MBs. Still a little lower than the online reviews I’ve seen but definitely nothing to sneeze at. Thanks again for your response.
Sean
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Actually, I mixed that up. My read times seem normal but it’s my write times that are low.
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Thought as much. That’s a pretty expensive sticker. Thanks, Bob.
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Would have been smarter to just say June 18 since that will pretty much be the case in most of the world.
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Damn. I was really hoping for the end of the month. Oh well, what’s a few more weeks?
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GTX cards are definitely the way to go for Premiere. To get a Quadro card with the same performance as a GTX680 you’d have to spend thousands.
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Whatever you get, make sure you get a decent video card, preferably a GTX670 or GTX680. With Mercury playback in Premiere, the graphics card is probably more important than your processors.