Need some Tech Advice -- Harddrive configuation
I've searched the last week or so, just seeing what everyone else has asked, what others have suggested and/or done. So I've gotta ask a couple of questions myself.
System Specs:
G5 Quad Core 2.5Ghz
8GB of RAM
Pair of 500GB Hard Drives (currently two separate drives)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Dual 30" Displays
There are 2 500GB drives in the computer, but the 2nd one is not being utilized currently. The boot/primary drive has less than 1GB available. System performance is sluggish. 2 applications that are being used are Photoshop CS2 and Aperture. All images are shot with a Canon 1Ds in RAW.
I like the idea of RAID0 in regard to speed, but don't like the idea of no redundancy. This 500GB drive was filled up from February of this year, so hard drives get filled up quickly. What can anyone recommend for a means to increase capacity, performance and stability.
Hardware RAID configuration? Software RAID configuration? External Enclosure? Based on what I've read here, hardware RAID, though more expensive, would be a better solution compared to SoftRAID. External enclosure would need to be FW800 vs. USB2.0.
The thing I'm trying to stay away from would be a 1TB RAID0 and then another 1TB RAID0 as a means for backup.
I currently have the 250GB drive that came with the computer, so I could set that drive back up as the boot drive, then take the pair of 500GB drives to store all the data. Just looking for the advice of the more experienced.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for everyone's time.
don,
After posting this and searching further, I found this:
http://www.caldigit.com/S2VRDuo.asp
I am actully looking at CalDigit's SATA RAID too.
This 2-bay RAID subsystem provides amazing functions that none of FireWire drive can compete. If it is at 150MB/s as they claimed, it is 2 times faster than FireWire 800 RAID.
I also checked with B&H, the price of such GREAT SATA RAID with 4-port Mac Pro compatible SATA card is fairly inexpensive. (only 500+ bucks for 500GB)
Or if you want to use firewire interface, your best bet is to get the new CalDigit FW800 dual bay array, FireWire VR, which is hot swapable and cooled by a nice quiet fan. This might be the best and give you most flexibility (can be upgraded to larger capacity if needed, supports RAID 0, 1 and JBOD, same as their S2VR Duo):
http://www.caldigit.com/FireWireVR.asp.
Cheers,
Darrelo Brown
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It could be but i think its unlikely, if it was the other stuff in your pc would suffer. I think its more due to the old creative?cards do this on certain boards chestnut which?at a glance seems to be plaguing?nforce 4 & 3 users, nforce 2 also had the same thing with the audigy 2 range, but that seemed to be more prevalent when?a sata controller was used. They both seemed to be fighting over ?pci bandwidth, there were loads of fixes ranging from changing your video card pci latency to 32 to wrapping the card in tin foil. None of these were a fix for all though and that never seemed to get fixed to my knowledge. I got the chance to try out my x-fi in an nforce 4 board last night and i can only say i pity you guys the crackles coming from my once nice clean x-fi dumbfounded me, and got me worried to. Back in my motherboard the crackles are not present thank god.
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I need some performance advice for video editing
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I am deciding on which Mac Book Pro to purchase for video editing. My choices are:
2012 - 2.3 Ghz Quad-Core i7 w/ 500GB Serial ATA@5400 rpm 8G RAM
or
2013 - 2.0 Ghz Quad-Core i7 w/ 256 Flash Storage 8G RAM
The one is a year newer but .3 Ghz slower processor and I'm really not sure if it would matter that much for video editing. (FCPX, After Effects, etc.) I know the Flash Storage would be faster as far as opening applications etc., but for video editing, I didn't know.
Can someone more qualified than me recommend which would be best. I need a laptop for video editing, but I need the least expensive I can get so I am looking at refurbs from Apple.
Thank you!If you look at the 2013 Retina models in the Apple store, you'll see the higher end version has both the Intel Iris and an additional Nvidia graphics module. The higher end models have this additional circuit, which is to provide faster and smoother graphics for video, games, etc.
I'd suggest looking at both model benchmarks at everymac.com. Here's the 2012:
https://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pro-unibody-faq/macbo ok-pro-13-15-mid-2012-performance-benchmark-comparison.html -
I need some Professional Advice!!!
I am in the process of buying a Mac Pro right now and I am split between these two MACs (there is an 800.00 difference between the two..
A)Mac Pro 2.26GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon
Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors
6GB (6x1GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory
640GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200 rpm
18x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB GDDR3 memory
B)Mac Pro 8-core 3.2GHz Intel Xeon
Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors
2GB (2 x 1GB) of 800MHz DDR2 ECC fully buffered DIMM
500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive
Two 16x SuperDrives (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (two dual-link DVI ports)
(doing a lot of chroma keying and am editing with XH-A1 @ 108060i need something fastI just talked to apple and they said: "With the 2.26 seems sufficient to me, also has better technology like DDR3, 18x Superdrive, and more ports for external peripherals along with better graphics cards.
It does not have the airport card built in (neither of them do) but you can have that added)"
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I'm looking to hit the checkout button on my shopping cart at newegg.com. It's has the following plus some other minor stuff:
MSI K8N Neo-Platinum
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Corsair Value Select 1G(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 cas 3 (yikes!)
ENERMAX 460W psu Model "EG465AX-VE (W)FMA"
---> 3.3V@35A, +5V@35A, -5V@1A, +12V@33A, -12V@1A, [email protected]
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model WD1200JD
ATI RADEON 9800PRO
Thermaltake Gaming Tower XaserV SeriesModel "V7000+"
---> Case Fans: 2 x 80mm, 3 x 90mm
[plus some other msc. stuff]
1. I think the Corsair is OK from reading thru the Kingston/Corsair sticky but does anyone else have an opinion about how well this works with this mobo?
2. Real dumb question now: Can I just use one WD sata hard drive (no raid) like I would if I was just installing a single IDE type? I never used SATA HDDs before.
3. Is it really stupid to use cas 3 memory while getting a pretty decent video card, mobo, and cpu?
Thanx,
PerionWow! Thanks to all for the intelligent replies and mem speed discussion.
I really appreciate the link to tomshardware where it says:
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We observed one interesting result in many of the gaming benchmarks: while the Pentium 4 3.2 GHz is normally just a touch faster than the Athlon 64 3200+, it quickly falls behind the Athlon if you only use slow memory modules.
I've read such conflicting reports about how noticible the effects of diffs in cas that I wasn't sure it wasn't just throwing money at numbers for nothing.
I also read somewhere else that the difference between cas 3 and cas 2.5 may end up meaning something comparable to a decrease of 10 fps in Quake 3. I'm not actually doing gaming though. I program 3D simulations - still animation but not as many polys to render or AI to deal with each frame than in high-end gaming. Also will use this machine for a lot of 3D Studio Max modeling. Maybe I won't even notice much difference in those apps - but I do hate rotating complex models and having to wait for the redraw. I'm counting on the Radeon 9800Pro card and the 1 Gb sys mem size to help with that one.
Still not sure if the faster mem is worth it but HEY - have a great FRIDAY
Perion
Check this out on your machine:
Celestia - free real time 3D sim of the entire (mapped) Universe
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I need some help/advice about a CS5 invalid Serial Number
I recently purchased a CS5 Master Collection on ebay. Excited to get playing with it, I started to load it right away. When the window popped up asking for the serial number I punched it in and it showed as invalid! I retyped it and again invalid! So I checked the disc and in the notetab text file the serial number there was different than the one I had typed in off of the instruction paper. I typed that number in and the CS5 loaded! HOWEVER, once the CS5 was finished installing and I started up any program the window popped again asking for the serial number! Also on the same window it says on the bottom to (click here) for trial version and the days count down!!!
The seller claims that I'm not installing it right and says when not installed correctly it acts like a trial version!
I have uninstalled and reinstalled it 4 times and I get the same results!
Can anyone offer any comments, suggestions?
I would greatly appreciate it!
RichWelcome to our community
You might try re-posting your issue in a forum where CS5 is discussed. This forum is used to discuss Adobe Captivate Installation issues.
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Need some quick advice on a restore with Time Machine
I have just had my MacBook Pro wiped and reinstalled as there was a problem with the way it would 'see' the battery (there was an intermittent fault).
I think that this has been solved now. So now I want to reinstall the whole Time Machine backup = but NOT the faulty base settings (the Operating system, etc). Everything - applications, folders, settings , files etc. How do I do this?I have just had my MacBook Pro wiped and reinstalled as there was a problem with the way it would 'see' the battery (there was an intermittent fault).
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hi,ive a problem we belive my daughters friend has stolen her phone and has started to delete her friends off the bbm,now one of my kids mates has told her that her friend has sent him a new request in her name but the pin is my daughters number,i want to get the phone back so if i report it she will probably throw it away,is there anyway i can get hold of any messages sent from a bbm pin to confirm its being used?
I don't know a way of doing this. If the phone in question had blackberry protect, you could track it.
It sounds like you know who it is from the bbm request described below. Can you go to their house and demand it back?
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Is it a hard drive issue? - I've had hard drives fail before but the machine usually tries to boot up but this PBook is dead. Deceased.
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