hard drives

[litemover]

So on that note should be be converting our files to some other format that the one originally specified by High End? I believe that it was Photo Jpeg medium quality.

Tyler http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...quote=1&p=949#

I know I'm going to be now. Getting full speed accross the board without barely any compression is worth it for me.

The downside is that it takes a lot more space and you need a multi drive zero striped array.

Christian

[Spam Butterfly]

I guess if you have the budget for the RAID array, then go uncompressed, if it's giving you the performance and quality you are after.

However DV PAL/NTSC is still the best codec to use for Catalyst, performance, and always has been. At least in Europe, DV PAL's 4:2:0 colour sampling gives better perceived colour than NTSC's 4:1:1 - hence I get less grief about this, and Tyler, I would keep your files in DV NTSC.

The content that High End has supplied in the past has been a mixture of DV and DVC Pro in NTSC format, + photojpeg stuff at medium quality.
The original v.1 media servers made in London had Photo-Jpeg content in Best quality, which was the format that it was delivered to me in (and in PAL hehehehe).

Photo-Jpeg has a number of drawbacks - the most significant is that it takes considerably more grunt to decompress it, hence this discussion. However, it has one significant advantage, other than being a great off-line format, which is that it supports resolutions other than standard definition. If you have a series of images that you want to use in your show, you may find that it's better to render these as a 'slide show' movie, and you'll get better performance.

[samsc]

The original v.1 media servers made in London had Photo-Jpeg content in Best quality, which was the format that it was delivered to me in (and in PAL hehehehe).

which will not work on multiple layers in catalyst v3- you get the worst of both possible worlds. big files and slower decompression.

[tylerr]

Has anyone tried a 15k RPM drive? Is there any amazing differance in preformance for twice the proce of a 10K?

Tylerhttp://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richardb/upload/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=958#

[samsc]

i dont think they have quite become available yet.

every manufacturer is releasing faster drives - whether they are faster for doing this type of thing remains to be seen.

[Spam Butterfly]

I have a 15K Seagate Cheetah. No real different.

Hugh

[samsc]

I have a 15K Seagate Cheetah. No real different.

Hugh

which one?

there are many different models.

[samsc]

there are two different types of cheetah at 15000rpm

the older 15k.3 models
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/seagate-15k3/
only up to 75 gb i think

and the latest just released next generation 15k.4 models
i think these go up to 147gb max.
http://www.storagereview.com/article...46754LW_1.html