SATA or IDE?

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: "formerly known as 'cat arranger'" <[email protected]>
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: > : : > : > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:26:03 -0700, "formerly known as 'cat
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: > : > >To me render means processing, like resizing, converting,
: > : > >filtering... like from a DVD format to VCD. When you say
: > : > >that things can be done realtime, that is still pretty slow, a
: > : > >lot slower than copying a file obviously, so at realtime a
: > : > >1G file would take 30 minutes to process, so where does
: > : > >a fast hard drive help? When would a job be bottlenecked
: > : > >by the speed of the hard drive? I guess that is my question.
: > : >
: > : > Suppose you're adding/subtracting/mixing/etc an audio
: > : > track... HDD may easily be the slowest part. Same for
: > : > cutting frames.
: > :
: > : Nope, not with current ATA HDs. In a very complex audio mixing
: > : situation the issue could be seek time limited and that is usually
: > addressed
: > : with multiple HDs.
: > :
: > :
: >
: > Doesn't caching help too?
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: Potentially YES.
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The older RAM though wouldn't be in demand.
I had a board with 2 megs of ram on it for a MAC
back 10 years ago or so. Compared to what was
around then it was awesome. I guess you could
just buy a bunch of ram and set up your own ram-
disk from memory. I wonder what a 1Gb cache
would be like for video editing.
 
formerly known as 'cat arranger' said:
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: "formerly known as 'cat arranger'" <[email protected]>
wrote
: in message : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:26:03 -0700, "formerly known as 'cat
: > : >
: > : >
: > : > >To me render means processing, like resizing, converting,
: > : > >filtering... like from a DVD format to VCD. When you say
: > : > >that things can be done realtime, that is still pretty slow, a
: > : > >lot slower than copying a file obviously, so at realtime a
: > : > >1G file would take 30 minutes to process, so where does
: > : > >a fast hard drive help? When would a job be bottlenecked
: > : > >by the speed of the hard drive? I guess that is my question.
: > : >
: > : > Suppose you're adding/subtracting/mixing/etc an audio
: > : > track... HDD may easily be the slowest part. Same for
: > : > cutting frames.
: > :
: > : Nope, not with current ATA HDs. In a very complex audio mixing
: > : situation the issue could be seek time limited and that is usually
: > addressed
: > : with multiple HDs.
: > :
: > :
: >
: > Doesn't caching help too?
:
: Potentially YES.
:
:

The older RAM though wouldn't be in demand.
I had a board with 2 megs of ram on it for a MAC
back 10 years ago or so. Compared to what was
around then it was awesome. I guess you could
just buy a bunch of ram and set up your own ram-
disk from memory. I wonder what a 1Gb cache
would be like for video editing.
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Hmm and that would be 500 of those 2MB boards of oh so slow RAM and would
require the installation of an extra electrical service to your house to run
it........
 
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: "formerly known as 'cat arranger'" <[email protected]>
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: in message : >
: > : > :
: > : "formerly known as 'cat arranger'" <[email protected]>
: > wrote
: > : in message : > : >
: > : > : > : > :
: > : > : : > : > : > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:26:03 -0700, "formerly known as 'cat
: > : > : >
: > : > : >
: > : > : > >To me render means processing, like resizing, converting,
: > : > : > >filtering... like from a DVD format to VCD. When you say
: > : > : > >that things can be done realtime, that is still pretty slow, a
: > : > : > >lot slower than copying a file obviously, so at realtime a
: > : > : > >1G file would take 30 minutes to process, so where does
: > : > : > >a fast hard drive help? When would a job be bottlenecked
: > : > : > >by the speed of the hard drive? I guess that is my question.
: > : > : >
: > : > : > Suppose you're adding/subtracting/mixing/etc an audio
: > : > : > track... HDD may easily be the slowest part. Same for
: > : > : > cutting frames.
: > : > :
: > : > : Nope, not with current ATA HDs. In a very complex audio
mixing
: > : > : situation the issue could be seek time limited and that is usually
: > : > addressed
: > : > : with multiple HDs.
: > : > :
: > : > :
: > : >
: > : > Doesn't caching help too?
: > :
: > : Potentially YES.
: > :
: > :
: >
: > The older RAM though wouldn't be in demand.
: > I had a board with 2 megs of ram on it for a MAC
: > back 10 years ago or so. Compared to what was
: > around then it was awesome. I guess you could
: > just buy a bunch of ram and set up your own ram-
: > disk from memory. I wonder what a 1Gb cache
: > would be like for video editing.
:
: Hmm and that would be 500 of those 2MB boards of oh so slow RAM and would
: require the installation of an extra electrical service to your house to
run
: it........
:
:

Yeah but that was 10 years ago and that old RAM runs about
1000 times faster than any hard drive I can afford. You could
put a lot of 8M chips in an external box; hook up a USB or
firewire connection, have the RAM-drive download to a hard
disk automatically before shutdown, as the old ones did...
 
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