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    I have investicated using ultra wide SCSI 15k rpm drives but has anyone tested 10K RPM SATA drives?

    Richard where you testing SATA or SCSI 10K's?

    Tyler
    Tyler Roach
    Eclipse Creativity, Inc.

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    I have investicated using ultra wide SCSI 15k rpm drives but has anyone tested 10K RPM SATA drives?

    Richard where you testing SATA or SCSI 10K's?

    Tyler
    the tests are being done.

    buy a couple and test them for yourself
    the raptors certainly help.

    or just buy one - put it into the internal slot, and dont put the os on it.

  3. Quote Originally Posted by samsc
    the tests are being done.

    buy a couple and test them for yourself
    the raptors certainly help.

    or just buy one - put it into the internal slot, and dont put the os on it.
    Are you talking about SATA or SCSI?
    Tyler Roach
    Eclipse Creativity, Inc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    Are you talking about SATA or SCSI?
    buy a sata raptor drive. 10000rpm.
    compare it with the existing drive. its much better.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by samsc
    buy a sata raptor drive. 10000rpm.
    compare it with the existing drive. its much better.
    scsi works a little better. using 10000rpm and 15000rpm atlas iv drives, i dont see much of a performance difference with dv codecs in catalyst.

    the atlas 10k iv 140gb drive has double the capacity of a single raptor.

  6. Here is what we are going to do

    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
    Tyler Roach
    Eclipse Creativity, Inc.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    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.

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    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.

    ---

    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.
    Attached Images Attached Images

  9. #9

    wierd

    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.

  10. #10
    Quote Originally Posted by tylerr
    The scsi option was way too expensive for only a little bit of improvement. External racks an all.
    Tyler
    scsi is same price- same capacity - no dodgy g5jam:

    1x10k maxtor atlas iV 146gb 700$
    1x atto ul4s $350
    1xadaptec cable $33

    g5 jam solution ( which doesnt work...):
    1x g5 jam 499$
    2x raptor $500-$600


    ----

    scsi is much much better. and you can add good quality external storage if you need more - if you use raptors you cannot do this.

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