Comments on: Them hard drives look big. I’m ‘on scan ‘em.

By: Creed

Creed — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:02:32 +0000

BTW, I meant to explain how small 300Gb is. Many uncompressed HD formats consume 10+Gb/minute of content. Few HD formats will allow much more than an hour of content on 300Gb. While that may be an interminable amount of home video footage of aunt Edna’s 80th birthday, it’s not much for the serious videographer.

For rule-of-thumb numbers, look at the second table at http://kb.ciprico.com/lore/article.php?id=222

Ask Eryk how long it takes to initialize a 7Tb raid system. You got up and going quickly.

(Kids these days…. :-P )

By: jauricchio

jauricchio — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:43:36 +0000

In hindsight, I worded the post poorly. I meant no disrespect to you folks. Just wanted to invite some contemplation of how far things have come, and your lifteimes have seen much more change than mine. I do know you’re working with FCP, Creed, and for that matter Eryk’s doing Xsan, where the terabyte is a more useful measure.

By: Creed

Creed — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:28:59 +0000

Some of us old farts are working on things like HD video editing where 300 Gb is sorta the least capacity worth the install time.

I remember seeing my first 90 Mb drive. (CDC Phoenix: big, heavy and power hungry.) I said there was no way we’d ever fill that sucka.

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:56:54 +0000

Being called a “real old fart” and “real fine people” in the same sentence: a rather mixed-mode classification.

PS: Telling the world you’ve got or want films seems to be a risky thing to do.

By: kg

kg — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:31:27 +0000

Hey, you wanna pick me up one of those?