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So, my company is about to purchase a catalyst server, and it seems as High End will no longer be selling servers. They are only going to be selling the software. So, if you needed to build your own server, what would you put into it???
Jason Rudolph
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Here's what I would put in it:
2Ghz Dual Processor G5
ATI Radeon 9800
Atto Express PCI UL4S SCSI card
Maxtor Atlas 10K Ultra 320 146Gb drive or Seagate Cheetah 10K Ultra 320 146Gb drive
SCSI cable and terminator.
Decklink Extreme - note that long runs of SDI need reclocking with this card.
Aurora Pipe or Aurora Pipe SDI
Powered USB hub.
Keyspan 4 Port High Speed serial interface.
emagic Unitor 8 MkII
Artistic Licence ArtNet box.
A couple of Kramer XGA DA's.
Depending on what environment that you use your Catalyst, you might want to add some decent scan converters too.
Hugh
Catalyst Test bloke.
Developer
The most important thing - and minimal thing to do - to a newly purchased G5 - is to add a second disc drive.
The software does not work well at all if you run content from the same drive as the one containing the system.
Internally - minimally - you can add a 10,000 rpm sata raptor drive
Or add a scsi card and drive.
Externally you should be looking to add a hard disc system.
External SCSI systems, are much safer at the moment.
SCSI is a well proven technology.
I think highend has put together some documentation - which is not available yet.
Developer
Jason.Originally Posted by jasonrudolph
You are pretty together.
You know your stuff.
What would you do?
Richard
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Well, I think I have it all figured out. But I have one question. Since I will be purchasing a enw machine, it will most likely have 10.3.5 installed on it. Where can I get myslef a copy of 10.3.3 to install on it?
Developer
The next version. which will hopefully be out very very soon. will work with 10.3.5.
I think you might have problems if you backwards install onto a new machine....
What kindof configuration are you going to be speccing?
R
Expert
Dual 2ghz g5 (don't have the option to wait for the 2.5)
2g ram (will also do some video work on the machine)
Radeon 9800xt
ATTO UL4D SCSI Controller
Two External 147 GB Seagate 10K RPM SCSI drives in a RAID array (with the budget I had, this fit in)
ArtNet Etherlynx
8 port gigabit ethernet switch
Furman 1U rackmount UPS, and a 1U power conditioner
Two extron UXGA DAs
Developer
Which scsi case are you getting?
Expert
I would build a simple sompact server using:
1. Macbook Pro 17" ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM dual link(current highest grade model with latest Radeon Video Card)
2. FirmTek SeriTek/2SM2-E dual SATA output card (up to 300mbs transfer)
3. FirmTek SeriTek/2EN2 Dual SATAe enclosure with 2 148gb Raptors
4. Matrox Triple head to go digital.
5. AJA I/O for SDI/composite/component input
6. Zandar DX 16 for multiple viewing
7. 1 30" Dell 3007 Flat Panel Dual link LCD.
8. Enttec Datagate 8 port UDP to DMX output.
9. Artnet 2 port input box.
10. Rolling carry on case.
11. Wireless Apple bluetooth Keyboard and mighty mouse
Larger system
.Macpro dual 3ghz
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 SDRAM (2 x dual-link DVI)
.5 Raptor 147gb Drives (Removing the second optical drive and using it for a raptor boot drive) Stripe 4 of the raptors in Zero mode.
.Firmtek Seritek Sata card to drive the boot drive.
.Matrox Triple head to go digital.
.Zandar DX 16
.30" Dell 3007 Flat Panel
.Decklink HD STUDIO PCIe HD/SD switching input card with sony deck control
.Geffen DVI-D Switchers
.PCI-e USB Card with internal USB port for dongle.
.4gb Ram
.Kensington Expert laser trackball.
.ADC to DVI converter
.Imagepro HD/SD
.PCI-E 8 port serial card.
.Cisco 24 port GB Ethernet Switch
.Artnet in.
.2 Datagate 8 port
All cables and adaptors.
Compact Rackmount case.
Multi System I might include an Xserve, Xserveraid and Xsan with fibre distro system, fibre channel cards for each system etc...
Christian Choi
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