Tim Jones
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Martin’s correct – swap the cards in slots 2 and 4 and then select Profile 1. This is the way that our 1,1 test units are configured. Quadro 4800 in slot 1, Sonnet PCIe Qio card in slot 2, USB 3 card in slot 3 and ATTO H680 or R680 in slot 4.
Tim
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Tim Jones
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I’ll have to second David’s comments. The best that you could do is an old ATTO ExpressPCI UL4D and a pSCSI LTO-4 drive. Nothing newer than LTO-4 is available in pSCSI, so as they say – you can’t get there from here.
However, if you could find an old MP 1,1 or 2,1, you could run an x86 Linux there AND add an ATTO or HighPoint 2722 SAS HBA to get into the realm of LTO-5 and 6.
I just wish that VMWare would come up with a way to pass through these devices like you can under ESX Server so that the guest OS could use the SAS drives.
Tim
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Tim Jones
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You beat me to it :)!
Tim
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Tim Jones
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The cheapest method is the OS X / Unix native rsync (man rsync) – but it is command line and you’ll need to learn the syntax and how to manage it. Next up the cost tree is “ChronoSyncX” – still not expensive, but it adds a GUI wrapper to rsync.
From there, you start heading into software packages that can rival the price of a new LTO drive :).
Tim
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[Bret Williams] “Sometimes on a reboot I lose connection to my TB drive and the 2nd monitor that is looped through the drive. The drive fully turns itself off on the reboot. (pegasus raid). Turning it on connects it and restores the monitor.
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Try a different Thunderbolt cable. We’ve discover 4 of our original cables were not “full strength” any more and were witnessing similar TB device drops. Replacing he TB cables has solved that here.Tim
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Tim Jones
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I’m pushing on a Mac Pro 4,1 w/Quadro 4800 and things are smooth (as can be expected on the older hardware). We have replaced the normal boot drive with Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSDs, and performed a fresh Yosemite install to 10.10.3, but no crashes or delays during normal work (including a LOT of playing with the new 3d Titling).
Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.tolisgroup.com
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HI Nick, unfortunately, there isn’t one size fits all answer for this. Our team has worked with so many different creation and post organizations that it really ends up taking a lot of trial an error to find the format that provides both the end-result quality you’re looking for and the performance that you need to get the job done.
On the other hand, have you considered archiving in the native formats that you shoot rather than any form of transcoding? With Seagate and HGST providing single disk 8TB units that are specifically designed for archival rather than performance, you can save a lot of your original work much more economically than just 1 year ago.
If your budget allows, you could also take the step into the LTO world. While the initial cost of entry may feel high, the per-GB cost of LTO-5 and LTO-6 tapes is very low. We current sell single LTO-5 tapes for $20.50 and LTO-6 tapes for $37.50. That translates to 1.3 cents per GB on LTO-5 and 1.5 cents for LTO-6. Additionally, the LTO media will sit idle on a shelf for 30+ years while requiring no maintenance or power.
In either case – disk or tape, saving your original shots becomes economical enough that transcoding trial and error isn’t required.
Tim
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Tim Jones
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Absolutely. We actually have custom 1 to 1 and 1 to 4 cables built for our solutions because we found that the generic cables available in the market were too unpredictable from a quality standpoint. They really start to demonstrate issues when we started driving LTO-6 at full speeds (180MB/sec ±).
I’m glad that you got that sorted.
Tim
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Tim Jones
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What brand of tape drive are you using?
Tim
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Tim Jones
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Glad to help on the looped playback.
Best to start a new discussion thread for the paste attributes question.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.tolisgroup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!