What about an external sata connection to an express card for the macbook pro? Will this be able to stream more than 8 dv?
It definately will work. I have a firmtek EN2st Macbook Pro card for a dual Sata raid array and I can run 2 concurrent layers of 99% photojpeg HD with very little frame loss.
I have the latest and loaded Macbook Pro 2.4ghs Intel 2 Dual Core with an Nvidea 8800 configured for 1920x1200 with 4gb of ram.
It completely blows away my old 2l5 ghz tower with a readeo 850 XT and 4gb of memory apart!
It makes for a great portable system and the only thing I lack is realtime video input.
I assume if I hooked up two of these ramdisks to my card, they would raick.
My 8 core would probably kick arse all over it though as I saw some pretty stunning AECS3 benchmarks at barefeats.com.
I would use it for both if I bought a dual raid. I'm sure it would be fast but I have 15gb in my new 8 core which is siting at my friends house waiting to be used. I'm sure the esperance ramDisk using 10gb of 8 core internal memory might be faster or just ask good with the exception of capacity. I'll run some speed tests when I finally pick it up and post them.
Christian
Will there much difference in using a macbookpro 2.33 intel 2 dual core 2Gb ram X1600? I presume i wont because it depends on the acces times of the discs?
mac book pros are limited by cpu and other things not discs.
macbook pro cannot do 8 dv layers whatever disc you use.
cpu/system is not fast enough
There does not seem to be any difference in performance between the 'old' and 'new' models.
All work well.
You are wasting the performance of the computer by not using these!!
sata drive technology is years out of date, and has not increased real world random access performance for years.