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Boot Camp storage issue
by ken adolph on Nov 3, 2008 at 1:01:09 am

I am in the process of building the ultimate editing machine but have run into a snag. I am wondering if anyone has any advice on this issue.
I plan to take my MacPro 3.2 dual quad and install Windows Vista 64 and the drivers for my Kona3 so that PremierePro/AE can use this card.
I have an Atto 4gb fibre channel card that controls a 9TB Rorke Raid5 box. The only question that I have is will the Apple OS and Windows OS both use the Rorke for playback in FinalCut and Premiere. What format does the drive system need to be?
With the new ability to import FC projects into Adobe this becomes the ultimate system.
Thanks for any help.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
http://www.mg.ca

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Re: Boot Camp storage issue
by Russell Lasson on Nov 3, 2008 at 3:22:14 am

I've put together a similar set up. High-speed RAID connected to a Mac Pro running both OS X and Vista. The challenge is what file system to use for your RAID. I have mine formatted as NTFS so it's native in Windows. Then I've loaded NTFS for Mac (from Paragon Software) so when I'm in OS X, I can still see the RAID. This set up has worked quite well, though there have been a couple of times that OS X hasn't seen the RAID when I've switched operating systems. When I restart again, it's come back online.

I will say that if you want to use image sequences, neither NTFS for Mac or MacDrive deal well with them. I haven't had problems with QT files though.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT

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Re: Boot Camp storage issue
by ken adolph on Nov 3, 2008 at 3:53:29 am

By "image sequences" do you me EX1(3), Red, SI?
I would prefer not to redo the raid to OSX as everything I have now is NTFS.
Are there any penalties in playback capabilities by using MacDrive or NTFS for Mac
I guess I will just try it.
Thanks for the comments.

Ken Adolph
Media Group
Editor/Post Supervisor
http://www.mg.ca

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Re: Boot Camp storage issue
by Russell Lasson on Nov 3, 2008 at 4:06:16 am

[ken adolph] "By "image sequences" do you me EX1(3), Red, SI? "

I mean DPX/TIFF sequences. If you get 30,000 files in a folder with each file being 6-10MB, these cross-platform file system intcrpretators don't handle it well.

[ken adolph] "Are there any penalties in playback capabilities by using MacDrive or NTFS for Mac
I guess I will just try it. "

On my RAID, I was getting 400+MB/sec in both OS X and Windows with it formatted as NTFS and using NTFS for Mac in OS X.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Universal Post
Salt Lake City, UT

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Re: Boot Camp storage issue
by Christopher Wright on Nov 3, 2008 at 6:44:36 pm

This is indeed encouraging. I was wondering how to span/port a RAID so that both Vista and OSX10.5 can see it and actually utilize the RAID at high throughput.

Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO
Windows XP Adobe Studio CS3, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.2, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 6, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects

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