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  1. #11
    and 2 drives can be slower than 1.
    so you have to be careful.
    because data has to be read off both drives.

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    Separate Drives?

    Quote Originally Posted by samsc
    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?

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    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.

  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    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.
    No.

    this just doesnt work - unfortunately. this part of the mac is not multithreaded - quicktime only does one thing at once.

    and the slowest drive in the system drags performance down.

    if you put content on an internal drive, and on a scsi drive at the same time.
    the slowest drive will pull things down.

  5. Quote Originally Posted by samsc
    No.

    this just doesnt work - unfortunately. this part of the mac is not multithreaded - quicktime only does one thing at once.

    and the slowest drive in the system drags performance down.

    if you put content on an internal drive, and on a scsi drive at the same time.
    the slowest drive will pull things down.

    Interesting.
    Tyler Roach
    Eclipse Creativity, Inc.

  6. #16
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    Interesting.
    i wish it worked like this. but it doesnt.

  7. #17
    Quote Originally Posted by mdc1138
    Enjoy your shiny new toy.
    tyler isnt a new user.

  8. #18
    Quote Originally Posted by mdc1138
    You can actually stripe 4 SATA drives using wiebetech's G5 Jam....
    having more drives, may help you play back uncompressed movies.

  9. Quote Originally Posted by samsc
    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
    Tyler Roach
    Eclipse Creativity, Inc.

  10. #20
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    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

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