Need help on upgrading

[NevBull]

Hi Matt

the X1900 used to be the standard card for those machines, so should be ok.

As you said, ditch the raid and put an SSD in there with another SATA drive for content archiving. Running SD clips rendered using the AIC codec should be fine. But test everything!!

regards

Nev.

[ajmaudio]

One other arrangement that is more $$$ but gives u more redundancy is to put 2 large normal sata disks in the machine with OS and content archive on them to have redundancy and then 2 SSD drives for redundancy. Once your show is programmed you can have it on both OS drives and point the catalyst software on each OS drive to a different SSD. Both would have the same content but this would offer about as much redundancy as you can get without having a second machine. If one OS or content drive bites it etc just reboot and bounce over to the other and go merrily on your way. Food for thought.... I guess I am paranoid

[SourceChild]

Just add an SSD.

Or Better yet, trade in your Mac Pro and get a new Mac Mini with an SSD.

If you are only running a few clips you don't need to haul around a big server.

I have Mac Mini Servers which run 3 layers of HD simultaneously on a single output and the whole system fits in a 2U rack chassis that I've custom built.

[MattMills]

Hello everyone. I have done the upgrade. I bought an 80 gig SSD and all is great. I have the OS on one of my old SATA drives, all my playback content on the SSD, and a backup of the playback content on another SATA drive. All has been great so far and I was very surprised by the boost in performance. Thanks again for all the help.

[RobbJibson]

Matt! The SSD are the way to go!
The Mac Pros that I have are SSD on the system volume and the content volume! No moving parts!
How ya been? Read about your mp3 spot calls! Slick!

Robb Jibson

[SourceChild]

Well Robb,

We certainly hope the fans in your computers move. If those parts start moving you're in for trouble.