hard drives

[samsc]

I have just ordered per machine:

2 73GB Western Digital 10K RPM Drives
1 G5 jam
1 ATI Radion 9800 Pro
1 USB card (with internal USB's)
1 BlackMagic Decklink Extreme video input card

and a killer case that I am designing.

The scsi option was way too expensive for only a little bit of improvement. External racks an all. FYI the Glyph rack mount is only a single channel SCSI thus it prevents you from taking advantage of both channels on the ATTO UL4D card. The Storcase Data Silo does provide support for dual channel. http://www.storcase.com/DataSilo/ds320.asp

Tyler

*** WARNING ****
dont do the g5 jam.
its horrible. heavy enormous.
you cant tour with it. you have to take the drives out.
its will break your computer.
SATA connectors are very very unreliable.
your computer will crash during shows because of heat issues.

just buy a single 10k scsi drive and mount it internally.
or a single raptor, and mount internally.
you DONT need to have dual channels with scsi - you arent doing uncompressed hi-def. thats the only thing you need it for.
this is not scsi bandwidth limited. And single channel of scsi is easily fast enough to do any of this.

[samsc]

I just installed an internal 10k scsi drive in less than 10 minutes.

You dont need a dual channel card an atto ul4s will work.
http://www.attotech.com/ultra4s.html
You need to use these, and not the ul3s for g5 compatibility.

I'll do a document with pictures by the end of today showing what to do.

I have to leave it on all day to check heat....and its still winter....
but atlas IV 10k drives are not so hot - but a little more noisy than raptors.

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to install this i used an internal round scsi cable i bought directly from adaptecs online store.

its an 'ACK-68I2-LVD-LP-Round-U320'
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/pro...al+SCSI+Cables

You can see this in the picture.
If you install this cleanly and tie up cables correctly, this is by far the best solution.
Airflow is maintained everywhere.
Im taking power from a splitter with the dvd drive.

[samsc]

Wierd.

I just installed a new atlas IV 10k. And when i turned it on it made a horrible whine. not incredibly loud - just much louder than a normal internal drive.
Anyone - performance was shit- didnt work very well.

Swapped it out for another, and it made hardly any more noise than an internal drive. and it worked much better.

I suspect there is a maxtor problem with the loud drive.