Me new editing/processing equipment

Picked up a Dual Quad Core Xeon 3.2ghz machine with 16gb of ram, three 1tb hd's.... If anyone is interested in how 8-cores does i'll post some thoughts on the machine in a few days after I get it all installed, setup and use some.

WOW, And i think i did good. New gateway amd64 quard processor 1tb hardrive 3 gb ddr ram. looking foward to hear your report. Good luck you dog. LOL pos

sweet setup! =]

I am very interested in whatyou think as i am going to get the Mac Pro very soon. How do you have backups setup? You using Time Machine? Raid? What is the black box with green lights?

Dermit wrote in post #4814979
What is the black box with green lights?

external drive backup

The black thing is a Drobo. Data Robotic Backup Device they call it. Very very nice backup device IMO.

www.drobo.com <---watch the video on the main page, it'll blow you away.

I am not using time machine right now, I was on my MBP's. But I have a 1tb Time Capsule on order, when it gets here I will use it for Time machine on all my macs.

Steve, run it through our test here and show us how it's done!
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=170063

Very nice!

I will tonight when I get home from my paying job

I might be speed limited by the crappy 320gb sata drive. If so I will put a raptor in or something.. From what i have seent he 1tb drives are not that speedy, so they will stay as three internal storage drives. I'll replace the srock 320 with a raptor and see what she will do.

I would assume the 1TB has to be faster than the 320, but I could be wrong.

With 16GB RAM, you could set up a RAMDISK for the first "scratch disk" say about 4GB or so, .. and you would see a huge benefit since otherwise PSCS has trouble working with over 4GB of RAM.

Very true, that is a good idea. I am still kind of new to the Mac platform. I sold all Windows stuff and went all mac over the last month or so. I will figure that out and do that tonight.

Question, for the time machine/time capsule, or any backup system do you have to have a one-to-one correspondence for drive space? In other words if I have two 1TB drives for data do I need two 1TB drives for backup? Or can I get by with one for backup for both 1TB data drives and add another as it starts to fill? Is Time Capsule expandable or do you just buy a whole new time capsule system everytime you need to add hard drive space? I am a complete newby to backup (auto). So far I've always just written redundant DVDs and am looking forward to a more automated system. I too am bailing off the Windows platform and into Mac very soon.

I'm interested in seeing the results of the PS Speedtest based on its current configuration.

That thing holds nothing on my 1.66 gHz CD Mac Mini with 2 gigs...

Sweet rig indeed but that ridicolous keyboard looks like a kid toy . What a shame if it wasnt for that i could even fit a rig like that in my office !!

The only thing missing now is a tablet.