Re: RAID HBA options (now Seagate)

Sister Mary, I think I was in one of your Catechism classes. I still have sore spots on my head from your knuckles.

I do have a 58 minute Avid HDV doc on my RAID right now. That's just a couple of minutes shy of your 60 minute test.

I just ran the sequence again last night, for the first time since I installed the new HPT HBA. It played the whole show without stopping. I don't know if you're implying that 60 is a magic number or not. I could add another ten or sixty minutes of out-takes to my sequence, and run it again. I think I will. I'd welcome a Sister Mary Bloodletting class Stress Test before I start another big job.

Whatever you do, Bob, don't change. I've read quite a few of your posts now on the Cow, and I'm very entertained, as well as informed.

I'm an Avid Expat also. I co-opened a sales office in Dallas in '91, and after a year, I had to get out of doing demos and get back into editing. All the MCs we sold had ATTO cards and I don't recall any problems with them outside of SCSI termination and cabling mostly. But they weren't even RAIDs at that point, just Ultra or Fast & Wide to support AVR27. By the time 1:1 and RAIDs became standard, I was working for places that had other people maintain them.

I'm a relatively recent convert to FCP, and built my own system after hoping beyond hope that the latest Avid DNx line would be reasonably priced viz the competition from AJA, etc. Now that I've been cutting mostly on FCP for about a year, I'm thrilled with it, and find that FCP trounces MC on many features.

You're right about another thing: I'm cheap. But only in the sense that I would rather buy quality stuff, like my Lexus, because it generally works out to be the cheapest in the long run. And that factors in my time, which I do value. And I've lost a lot of it due to this HPT Waterloo, and learned a valuable lesson.

I've read here on the CC that AJA will cross ship their PCI cards in case of a defect. Does anybody know if any of your preferred HBA vendors will?

Jim Curtis
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