MTRON SSD performance

[samsc]

hybrid drives - with 1GB memory and a hard disc-

The Mcell is an interesting beast. In terms of size, it fits in the standard 3.5" form factor, but inside it actually contains a 2.5" 5400rpm hard drive, a stick of 1GB DDR2 RAM,

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ram-cache.html

japanese site:
http://www.estoragenetworks.co.jp/cg...?cat=DTS&pro=0
english pdf:
http://www.estoragenetworks.co.jp/pd...og_english.pdf

[samsc]

Wow, I would love to buy 4 of these per machine and raid them together! It would be awesome!

Christian

tested this inside fw800 in a sata case this week-

works OK not as good as direct sata- but still works well.

8 layers of dv.

[litemover]

It definately will work. I have a firmtek EN2st Macbook Pro card for a dual Sata raid array and I can run 2 concurrent layers of 99% photojpeg HD with very little frame loss.

I have the latest and loaded Macbook Pro 2.4ghs Intel 2 Dual Core with an Nvidea 8800 configured for 1920x1200 with 4gb of ram.

It completely blows away my old 2l5 ghz tower with a readeo 850 XT and 4gb of memory apart!

It makes for a great portable system and the only thing I lack is realtime video input.

I assume if I hooked up two of these ramdisks to my card, they would raick.

My 8 core would probably kick arse all over it though as I saw some pretty stunning AECS3 benchmarks at barefeats.com.

I would use it for both if I bought a dual raid. I'm sure it would be fast but I have 15gb in my new 8 core which is siting at my friends house waiting to be used. I'm sure the esperance ramDisk using 10gb of 8 core internal memory might be faster or just ask good with the exception of capacity. I'll run some speed tests when I finally pick it up and post them.

Christian

[samsc]

It definately will work. I have a firmtek EN2st Macbook Pro card for a dual Sata raid array and I can run 2 concurrent layers of 99% photojpeg HD with very little frame loss.
Christian

it wont definitely work.
doing 2 layers is much easier.
almost any system will do 2 layers...

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but peter asked about 8dv layers.
i couldnt get anywhere near that this week.

[Peter]

Will there much difference in using a macbookpro 2.33 intel 2 dual core 2Gb ram X1600? I presume i wont because it depends on the acces times of the discs?

[samsc]

mac book pros are limited by cpu and other things not discs.

macbook pro cannot do 8 dv layers whatever disc you use.
cpu/system is not fast enough

[FxDrew]

The MTRON SATA 32GB SSD -

http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

can do 11 dv movies at 25 fps with random access playback mode on every layer - not just play loop fwd

max 3147 can only do half this-

Machine tested is 8 core intel 3.0GHz.

Is this using the MOBI 3000 & MSD 6000 Models or the MSP 7000 model?

Does the 3.5" drive only come in the MSP 700 model?

[samsc]

Is this using the MOBI 3000 & MSD 6000 Models or the MSP 7000 model?

Does the 3.5" drive only come in the MSP 700 model?

There does not seem to be any difference in performance between the 'old' and 'new' models.

All work well.

You are wasting the performance of the computer by not using these!!

sata drive technology is years out of date, and has not increased real world random access performance for years.

[gazzer82]

I have been looking to replace our 146GB 15000rpm SCSI drive with these SSD's. But to get the same capacity i would need two 64GB versions, what is the recommended way or running these. Leave them as two separate drives/libraries or join them as a software raid for one volume. My gut feeling is the first as it won't cause you to loose the whole disk of one fails. What are peoples opinions?

Also are you going for the 3000 or 6000 series, i believe the 6000 is slightly faster. Is it worth the extra expense for the 20mb/s?

Cheers

Gareth

[samsc]

I have been looking to replace our 146GB 15000rpm SCSI drive with these SSD's. But to get the same capacity i would need two 64GB versions, what is the recommended way or running these. Leave them as two separate drives/libraries or join them as a software raid for one volume. My gut feeling is the first as it won't cause you to loose the whole disk of one fails. What are peoples opinions?

Also are you going for the 3000 or 6000 series, i believe the 6000 is slightly faster. Is it worth the extra expense for the 20mb/s?

Cheers

Gareth

Suggest buying big normal SATA drive - keeping everything on that disc - transfer over content needed for immediate show.
you can playback from sata and mtron at the same time

no difference i ever saw between 6000 and 7000 series. i dont think its worth the difference in pricing right now.

no need to raid anything - leave them separate - no difference- unless you are planning on uncompressed HD...