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R.A.I.D software vs hardware
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That's true. Engineering groups around the world have concluded the critical number is seven. Thus one finds in all sorts of literature and documentation that RAID sets of larger than 7 drives is not recommended. Seven however, is still a relatively safe number.And this is for rotational media. There is some question concerning the difference between solid state and rotational media when it comes to catastrophic failure rates though.
The 7 drive recommendation seems to have come from hardware limitations, depending on what you use you can go above that and still get additional bandwidth out of it. The recommendations about RAID levels however, changes as you add disks, you keep adding parity drives RAID 6,7 then 10 as the disks go up since the volume of data becomes larger and the risk of failure increases.
http://serverfault.com/questions/15038/guidelines-for-the-maximum-number-of-disks-in-a-raid-set
codec question
Please excuse me for being long winded but I have a codec question.
When I got my new to me mac pro I went into this knowing that I would have to upgrade the video card in order to use my preferred editing software, Final Cut Pro X. While I save for the card of choice, I am making use of the tools at hand until I can pay for it.
As we know iMovie uses the less than stellar (when compared to prores) apple intermediate codec. Since you can download the ProRes codec pack from apple for free I did. When I tried to install the codec, it would not install. a dialog box stated that because FCP X, motion, 5 or compressor4 were not found the install would not continue.
So what is the purpose of a codec pack that won't install unless if finds the software than comes the codec anyway!! The reason I ask is that if that codec is installed, iMovie will indeed edit ProRes encoded video until I can purchase my new card.
As a side note. Once I figure this codec thing out, how much difference will you actually notice once the youtube servers heavily compress the uploaded video.
Please excuse me for being long winded but I have a codec question.
When I got my new to me mac pro I went into this knowing that I would have to upgrade the video card in order to use my preferred editing software, Final Cut Pro X. While I save for the card of choice, I am making use of the tools at hand until I can pay for it.
As we know iMovie uses the less than stellar (when compared to prores) apple intermediate codec. Since you can download the ProRes codec pack from apple for free I did. When I tried to install the codec, it would not install. a dialog box stated that because FCP X, motion, 5 or compressor4 were not found the install would not continue.
So what is the purpose of a codec pack that won't install unless if finds the software than comes the codec anyway!! The reason I ask is that if that codec is installed, iMovie will indeed edit ProRes encoded video until I can purchase my new card.
As a side note. Once I figure this codec thing out, how much difference will you actually notice once the youtube servers heavily compress the uploaded video.
That is what I have downloaded. So far It won't install. It down loads as a DMG file so the unpacker won't help me