I'm a posting maniac tonight! So I'll combine a few replies into one... > As a final word, I have to put in a plug for MacGurus....There may be items > where you pay a little more by going to > Macgurus.com, but if you consider the expertise, customer support and tech > support you get as part of the bargain, you'll never doubt your purchase.
Yeah, I like Macgurus, and have mentioned before that I was once associated with one of the founding Gurus in a college LUG, but my-oh-me are they ever expensive! I kinda wish they provided both the high-end options (Granite Digital, Seagate, etc.) for the hardcore users, and a mid-range level for hobbyists and small-office users like me. Sure, if I could afford $70 worth of Granite Digital Teflon cabling, I'd buy it from them, but I'll just have to stick with the free cable that came with my card for now. Speaking of such, you should see this funky cable that came with my card! It literally resembles a mass of wires stuck to a wide piece of cellophane tape, and is VERY fragile. I halfway want to sheath it with some soft PVC tape-hose from Lowe's (ha... a component condom). I imagine I won't get your kind of performance with these cheap components, but it's good enough for me (as long as it doesn't permit too much noise and destroy data, which I back up to redundant off-site file servers just in case). At least it came with active termination! >If you have two or more 70+GB disks (I know, down the road) you can put >hours of uncompressed video on those disks. Ha! If only... Most of what I need to do is for VideoCD or low-bandwidth web, and is captured from VHS tapes that have in turn been created from old 8mm and 16mm films. So for now, I just capture about 20 minutes at a time in half-NTSC. Good enough for non-profit work! >All you need is JES Movie RAID which is free (on VersionTracker.com) and >Mac OS 9. I finally got a lead on a copy of OS 9, so I'll check this out if/when I get 9. I am reluctant to leave 8.6, especially without a G3 upgrade yet, but the list of 9-only software I'd like (part. Moz 1) is growing faster than a ... well, whatever grows really fast. >I wouldn't expect too much from striping (like 16 MB/sec striped vs. 14 >MB/sec individual). >IMHO real life testing (Finder copy, video digitizing) is more relevant >than those utility benchmarks. Yep, benchmarking with and without striping is just for fun. I mainly want to stripe for data security and partitions that are larger than my physical drive. Hopefully in the future I can mirror the stripe on an external drive, so I don't have to upload my backup files to the off-site file storage quite so often. I'll be using SoftRAID 2.2.2. -- --Chris PM 7500/604e 200Mhz 4 gig SCSI 256 megs OS 8.6 (This machine rocks!) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
