Memory Needed?

[samsc]

You can actually stripe 4 SATA drives using wiebetech's G5 Jam....

having more drives, may help you play back uncompressed movies.

[tylerr]

having more drives, may help you play back uncompressed movies.

So if I did that I would have to have some kind of external HD enclosure because if I am thinking correctly there is only room for 2 internaly

Tyler

[samsc]

So if I did that I would have to have some kind of external HD enclosure because if I am thinking correctly there is only room for 2 internaly

Tyler

wiebetech came up with this thing....
the G5 jam.

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/G5Jam.html

I have been trying to find a rackmount 1u scsi or serial ata solution.
havent found one yet.
There are larger rackmount cases.
granite digital have 4u scsi enclosures. as do others.

http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/indx_scsi.htm

[samsc]

So if I did that I would have to have some kind of external HD enclosure because if I am thinking correctly there is only room for 2 internaly

Tyler

the glyphtech enclosures look promising for touring type environments.

www.glyphtech.com

They seem to have a little experience of our industries.

[tylerr]

Correct me if I am wrong but if we go with these 15K RPM SCSI drives will be be able to mount them in the onboard slots in the G5 and just modify the case slightly to get the cables to them? In that case I will not need to provide any external storage at this point.

Tyler

[samsc]

Correct me if I am wrong but if we go with these 15K RPM SCSI drives will be be able to mount them in the onboard slots in the G5 and just modify the case slightly to get the cables to them? In that case I will not need to provide any external storage at this point.

Tyler

i would hope so.
but the 15000rpm drives get very hot.
i bought a couple of 10k drives last week, and they dont get so hot. ( im investigating any performance differences )
at 25fps it isnt anywhere near as critical.
its running at 30fps which is harder

you really kindof need to keep the operating system on a different disc - to keep things fast.

so im looking into putting 2 scsi drives and one sata drive inside the case.
I would replace the dvd drive with another scsi drive ( or move the sata drive ).

you can get 'enclosures' to mount drives that fit exactly into the dvd drive bay.

richard

[samsc]

at 25fps it isnt anywhere near as critical.
its running at 30fps which is harder

if you are running everything at 25fps its almost possible to use only a single 15k or 10k drive.

[tylerr]

Correct but in my opinion if we are going to spend the $$ I would like to spend a little more and get the best. I thought you were saying earlier that the slowest drive would slow the whole system down. So wouldn't a SATA drive slow the system down if I had 2 15k SCSI drives for media?

I also want to keep the CD drive intact. I think I would add one of those internat mounting options for the SATA drive then. However is there anyway to find out if the 15k drives get too hot for the G5's fan setup?

Have you talked to Andy?

[samsc]

just modify the case slightly to get the cables to them?
Tyler

i think round scsi cables might work.
http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...read.php?t=166

so you dont have to modify anything.
but you might.
i have some on order.