So if i need 10,000 RPM drives I can only get a 74 GB drive. Can I put an internal SCSI drive inside a G5 or will it need to be external? We currently have over 100 GB of stock material we keep on our catalysts.
Tyler
So if i need 10,000 RPM drives I can only get a 74 GB drive. Can I put an internal SCSI drive inside a G5 or will it need to be external? We currently have over 100 GB of stock material we keep on our catalysts.
Tyler
Mike you want to answer this?Originally Posted by tylerr
or danny?
If I were to use 10000 rpm SATA drives can I raid them together inside the G5 to make one large drive?
What kind of 2 layer frame rates can I espect with only a 7200 RPM?
Tyler
yes you can stripe two SATA drives together in a RAID using Apple Disk Utility. You can actually stripe 4 SATA drives using wiebetech's G5 Jam...but it doesn't help you run multiple movies any more smoothly. It's more of a seek time issue, how fast the read/write head can whip around reading bits of 3 or 4 movies a bit at a time. Imagine a record player's needle jumping around trying to play 1 snippet of each of 4 songs before it had to go read a snippet of one of the other songs....
then you get an idea of what your hard drive is doing.
and 2 drives can be slower than 1.
so you have to be careful.
because data has to be read off both drives.
Is it conceivable that Catalyst could be configured for each layer to use a separate drive?Originally Posted by samsc
If you configured Catalyst to read each layer from a sep. drive you would need 4 times the storage space and have to maintain 4 copies of the same material. Sounds like a pain to me.
having more drives, may help you play back uncompressed movies.Originally Posted by mdc1138
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 internalyOriginally Posted by samsc
Tyler
Tyler Roach
Eclipse Creativity, Inc.
wiebetech came up with this thing....Originally Posted by tylerr
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