[G4] SCSI RAID for dummies?

[sr ferenczy]

very true. with an acard/siig ata 133 raid card ($150?) you can get 
sustained speeds off close to 70 mb/s -> more than enough for DV and 
photography. use 2 120 GB WD SE 8 mb cache drives, and the total price, 
about $500, is well less than you will pay for scsi, and will offer you 
far more speed than you need.

peace
sandor

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 12:17  PM, Brian Conner wrote:

> Then you don't need to spend that much money, unless you are also 
> using an
> uncompressed capture card, like the KonaSD. For DV, all you need is an
> ATA100 7200rpm IDE drive installed as a 2nd drive.
>
> If you want to stripe two IDE drives inside your MDD G4 in a RAID0, 
> you can
> do that with Drive Utility. In fact, some have successfully striped 
> four IDE
> drives using the ATA100 & ATA66 busses in the MDD G4 to get nearly 
> 100MB/sec
> out of the RAID0 stripe. To do this properly, you should install an 
> ATA133
> PCI controller, install your boot drive up in the 2nd optical bay using
> 5.25/3.5 drive brackets and connect it to the ATA133 controller.
>
> But seriously, unless you need uncompressed video, you don't need SCSI.
>
>
> Brian Conner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
> Behalf Of josh hough
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: [G4] SCSI RAID for dummies?
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:18 PM -0500 sr ferenczy wrote:
>> one question, what is your reasoning for going with a scsi raid?
>
> As a high-performance scratch disk for photo and video editing (mostly
> Photoshop and FinalCut).
> -josh
>
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