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My photography studio is filled with 7 Macs, 4 towers, dual G4 and G5's (2 each) and 3 iMac G5's. The towers are all production work stations used to process files, create albums, retouching etc. Two of the towers also act as servers, with a total of 10 250GB volumes shared over the network (1000Base-T). This was fine when we had 2, then 3, th
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Also wanted to note that they let me specify Seagate NL35 400GB drives. They only added $50 per drive for using those drives against retail 400Gb SATA drives.
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What do you all think of these boxes?
I was able to order 2 4 drive RAID 5 arrays, 4 400GB drives each for $3400. I didn;t really see anything better out on the market for network storage.
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The PD170 is a 3 chip camera, 3 1/3" CCD's
If he does not need the advanced audio features, the less expensive Sony VX2100 is virtually the same camera, same video performance
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A little more expensive, but I have a Ricoh Aficio 400. Under $500 typically. Fast, an honest 30 ppm, a toner good for 20,000 pages, and costs $150 for a new one. holds 500 sheets with an optional 1000 sheet tray for a total of 1500 sheets.
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I totalyl agree, I owned a Dominos until summer of 1993. we hand tossed pizzas, 12" small and 16" large, then the area stores went to 15" large, I stuck to 16".
I finally got fed up and sold out when pizza hut started delivering and corp stores that surrounded me started doing stupid stuff, like selling Subs, wings, smaller pizzas, let's be like Pizza Hut and sell a 12&quo
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Search Newegg and Google for the Seagate NL35 series SATA drives. They are about $75 more then similar sized consumer drives and they are ratedto last an average of 4 times longer. They are designed for server use, a step below the Cheetah SCSI drives.
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Ordered a Pioneer 111 drive, $41 delivered
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<<What is wrong with the Sony, and why not have it replaced under warranty>>
The Sony fails burning with almost every media have tried. The only one I can get to burn in Maxell 8X DVD-R, and only then at 6x speeds. Verbatim, Sony, TDK, Toyo Yunden, all fail or won'teven start to burn.
Apple says that my 90 days of phone support is over, I need to send the machine in or take
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Fed up with the Sony SD in my dual 2.5.
I figure I will just order a Pioneer 111 and swap them out.
Is this my best choice? Compatibility with the OS, booting and media is most important.
Plextor has a new 18X burner getting great reviews, do I give up anything with this unit?
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My first thought is a 12" Powerbook. 1.5 for $1500 seems like a lot of money for a laptop near it's EOL.
It's for my wife who will be traveling over the next 6 months. She really wants something small, is the iBook a better value? I have one iBook, a 12" 800mhz and it has been repaired many times, more then all of my Mac added together so I have a little bad taste in my mouth
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What I have done is to rent one of the portable storage containers. Such as www.pods.com
Then I hire workers to load the Pod and when it's done off it goes. Have the Pod delivered and hire another set of workers to unload it.
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Be sure to tell him that Xserves use less power, would have prevented this emergency
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Drywall dust is a mess. I would buy a cheap vac, clean up and throw it away, get a new vac. They are not very expensive these days
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I e-mailed them to bitch about 25 Hi-Val blanks that I burned in June of 1999, none could be read. Kodak and Verbatim blanks from the same time, stored in the same case read fine.
I wrote.
Back in 1999 I bought 50 Hi-Val CDR blanks. I tried to read from a few of them recently and they simply come up as unrecognizable volumes. I have tried them in a DVD-R drive, a CDRW drive and a CDRW/DVD
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Been happy with TotalCall international. Had them for years 4.9ยข per, 6 second billing, never any billing or performance issues.
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My Dual 2.5 has, from Apple a Sony DW-U12A 8x superdrive.
I can't find media that works well in this drive.
TDK 8x DVD+R burns well at 4x, but fails at 8x.
TDK 16x DVD-R and I get an error before the drive even starts, so at least I am not wasting media.
Toyo Unden 4x DVD-R burns fine at 4x but often fails verification.
Maxell DVD-R 8x burns fine at 6x, but fails at 4x or 8x
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The XRaid would be awesome, but just a little out of my budget. Right now I am leaning toward a box that holds 4 SATA drives and has a built in RAID5 controller. Connects via 1000BaseT. Will cost me $3400 for two 1.6TB arrays, yielding 2 1.2TB RAID 5 volumes.
The cost even includes Seagate NL35 SATA server drives.
The XRaid with FibreChannel cards is going to cost over twice that. I
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That would be great if the yhad a 4 drive version. I need at least 1.2TB of RAID 5 space.
So 4 400GB drives would fit the bill. I also want either server grade drives, such as the Seagate NL35 series, or a RAID that had disk scrubbing.
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Looking for a box to hold 4 SATA drives, can be formatted in RAID 5 and connect via FW 800.
So far I am finding FW solutions that only do Striped or RAID 1.
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RAID 5 boxes that use gigabit ethernet.
FW800 would be faster and I could share them over 1000BaseT
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I would not rule out just doing a layout in Photoshop. 120x96 at 100ppi is not unworkable. I would want a dual G4 or G5 with a min of 1.5GB ram but you should be able to work on it with such a set up.
Also consider working with your raster graphics and photos at a lower res, and scaling up at the end, then place your text.
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I was getting 17-18 fps playing 1080p one a Quicksilver G4 with dual 1.33's and a 4ti video card.
Dual 2.5 G5 w/ Rad 9600XT plays solid 29.97fps.
The main hassle is having to set my screen to 2048x1536 res to watch it all
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Canon and Fuji have been releaseing newer digitals with higher ISO ranges. I think Fuji has one that goes to 3200 even.
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My old FW cable from a 15GB iPod works perfectly with my current 30Gb Video
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I went with vinyl. I had a hard time finding an installer that does Hardiboard.
The Hardi does need to be sealed and painted while vinyl does not. From what I read I can go 20 years or more without teh vinyl loosing it's look. Last Octob er we had a hurricane come through which blew off some of the vinyl. I used the Alcoa brentwood product which is a lower end siding. The Alcoa Quest
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I just bought a 466, added ram, drives, video card from a dead 867 QS and I was very surprised at how capable a 466 G4 really is. I bet that 733 could handle more then most people would think.
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The 9550 is a good value card. Can handle RT 3 and even will play Doom 3 and other games, of course not at levels that a 6800 will, but playable.
They seem to run netween $49 and $89 depending on brand. There is a 128MB and a 256MB version
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Last week I even shot some products with the 1Ds2 and a borrowed Phase One H20, both 16+ MP. The Phase back was better, not by much though. A little post work with the Canon files and we were able to get pretty close. The color and tones from the H20 was awesome, but worth $20k?..........
Then add in the speed at which the EOS works and the H20 feels like ti came from the stone age.
I
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Can't find any information about OC on the G5 towers.
Any info out there?
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Should work fine, but the Powerbook can;t really push 1000BaseT speeds, may not be a big difference, although it wil be faster from the PB to teh tower over 1000 vs. 100,
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