HD Playback on Catalyst

[samsc]

Have there been any results or comparisons between Mtron SSDs vs xServeRAID?

MTRON works much better than xServeRAID.
and doesnt weigh 45kg.

[SourceChild]

MTRON works much better than xServeRAID.
and doesnt weigh 45kg.

I agree with you. I have yet to buy an xServeRAID. I do however have several machines with 32Gb and 64Gb Mtrons in them and they work fine. I do have a few seek issues with the Mtron and Catalyst. I end up crashing Catalyst. When I can duplicate the issue I will report it.

Now that I have SSDs, many of the multi-projector edge blending projects I am doing are getting HD content. I have started taking all of my stock HD content (Motion Loops, Artbeats, Digital Juice) and converting it to Apple Intermediate Codec @ 1920x1080 and 1280x720.

The problem is, a dozen or so stock content libraries eats through a 64Gb disk fast. At least with an xServe Raid I would have more storage space for some of these permanent installs I'm working on.

[samsc]

The problem is, a dozen or so stock content libraries eats through a 64Gb disk fast. At least with an xServe Raid I would have more storage space for some of these permanent installs I'm working on.

put a bigger sata drive internally to store the libraries - copy to mtron for playback when required?