7 HD's inside a mac pro

[samsc]

which scsi drive?

[GideonKiers]

Sorry, haven't been able to check. Hope to do that tomorrow. In the mean time i've had a look at the caldigit drives + cards. The S2VRDuo looks quite promising ? http://www.caldigit.com/S2VRDuo.asp

Should be able to play 4 layers of DV-PAL ? Try to keep the disc tidy to limit seek times ..

Have to send in the specs for the machines they need to buy by the end of this weekend..

which scsi drive?

[GideonKiers]

Hello,

What would be a recommended os x disk speed testing utility, preferably downloadable for free ?

thanks,

[RedLightning]

i used the one included with my Blackmagic card...

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[samsc]

i used the one included with my Blackmagic card...

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why doesnt that give you any indication of performance?

because this only reads and writes a single large file.
disc performance changes drastically depending on how many files are being read at the same time. not just on how many MB/s it can read.


It gives you no indication of how well it works with catalyst.
Catalyst reads more than one file at the time - it reads one file for each movie playing.

the way to benchmark catalyst is with catalyst - nothing else.

Catalyst is also free when used like this.

Headline decklink blackmagic data transfer rates are no use to you - unless you are capturing a single movie file and writing it to disk.