Re: VTR Xchange Drop Frames - rant

Hi Gary,

I have NEVER EVER seen a 200 MBps on a single bootable drive in my life. The theoretical MAX speed limit on a single SATA drive is a little over 100MBps, That is a server class drive that would not work in your mac. Either you are guessing or your math is incorrect.

Forgot to mention the boot drive is stripe... I have to remake the SO, I dont like this kind of config...

LSI only ever created the Apple Branded FC cards- why are you trying to hack together an old LSI FC card in your Mac?

I apologize :) I found it this way when I came working here 4 months ago, so dunno who/why bought it...

Not with a split array. not DPX. You will not get realtime playback at 23.98 for more than 15-30 sec until the cache throughput maxs out.

I get it, dont split, it has sense...

You are attempting to muddle thru a very complex and hardware intensive editing process without trying to get the proper support for a hardware config like this- you cannot slop your way thru one of the most complex hardware configurations needed for highend editing. There is a vast amount of info needed to accomplish this task - raid config, raid cache settings, block size, raid levels, hell even the config of the Atto card is important to maximize the bandwidth.

I never though it was going to be easy, and thats why I started to write in this forum :) coz you all have more experience than me, more knowledge with raids, bandwidths, etc...

And I believe that its possible to get what I want with the minimum costs, this means buying only the ATTO and using what I have.

So do you think this config will work whatever the amount of info needed?

Thanks a lot,

Alex