[bjames]

Hi all,  

I have an r12k, 400 mhz o2 with 1024mb ram with the AV board + Miranda sdi adaptor as well as an incoming Digital video board and Digital Audio radical pci card.  With a maxed out O2 and video options added, how would this perform vs a DPS perception video board on a Pentium 100mhz system.  The reason I ask, is I have always dreamed of having the Perception setup for digitizing, editing and sav8ng to tape setup.  The specs on the perception are similar to the o2 video with the exception that the perception is 4:2:2 where as the Digital Video is uncompressed 4:4:4 at 10 bit.  I’m guessing the O2 would be a much better setup.

Now the big question is what kind of raid setup should I use with the O2?  For the Octane running Jaleo at 2 streams uncompressed and real-time processing, they recommend 27mb / sec or 16 7200 drives stripped over at least 2 scsi lanes as a single scsi channel will not be fast enough.  With the O2 having built in compression, would I be fine using a 4 scsi disc array over a single external scsi channel as the signal will be compressed/uncompressed?