The MTRON SATA 32GB SSD -
http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html
can do 11 dv movies at 25 fps with random access playback mode on every layer - not just play loop fwd
max 3147 can only do half this-
Machine tested is 8 core intel 3.0GHz.
Do 8 cores make any difference- NO- 4 reducing 8 core machine to only use 4 CPU's does not change performance.
dv codec is the fastest - performance characteristics are different with photojpeg - photojpeg is cpu limited - not disc.
Richard