A1Burokas@aol.com
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:37:34 EDT
In a message dated 6/19/99 10:39:27 PM, nscott@mech.uwa.edu.au writes:
>Then in 1998 I bought a beige G3 tower with the built-in AV.
> ...
>again I was frustrated because it soon turned out that the hard disk
>...was only capable of a sustained data transfer rate of about 1.2 Mb/s.
>This is not enough for high-quality work and the movie ends up with
>noticeable artifacts.
Huh? I had the very first Beige G3 desktop. Internal 4g IDE on the
built-in G3 IDE bus. No special controller cards or anything. I was doing
3.6MB/s firewire with no problem right out of the box (after I got a Firewire
card). Finder copies were up in the 7MB/s range.
My plan now is to get an internal SCSI for my startup drive and apps,
and get a honkin' big IDE drive for DV data. If I replaced the Internal CD
with a SCSI drive (which I don't know if this is possible) I could add
another honkin' big IDE drive for more video.
Then I replace the original (now pokey) 233 G3 processor with one of the
zippy new ones with a honkin' big backside cache, and renders will fly. (This
is why I asked the list if others are using upgraded processors for DV.)
That's my honkin' plan.
> So I am just about to buy an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller and an
> 18Gb IBM Hammerhead disk to put inside my Mac. This pair is rated
> at 80 Mb/s burst rate.
Hmmm. I haven't heard of a single drive attaining that, but if you say
so. If it does... then this will indeed be an awesome combination because the
computer won't ever have to wait for data from the drive. When rendering, or
copying files, file management, this high speed, compared to IDE, will make a
difference.
> 3) There is a new choice out there: the FireWire drive!
The drives made today are actually IDE drives with a Firewire interface.
I do not believe they would be adequate for full-time, heavy use editing, and
not capable of dual stream data rates. When true Firewire drives hit the
market (when?) they should be substantially faster.
Anthony
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