GTX 285 getting hard to find...

[Dustin Cross]

JMR makes solid stuff, but I have to disagree that this is perfect for DIT. DITs need stuff to be rack mountable. The design of Mac Pro cases it Terrible for rack mounting.

This would be better for Resolve because Resolve will most likely be in a post suite and not on set.


Dusty

 

[Tom.Wong]

than honestly I think it's kind of crappy for both , ha! i feel like it's a few pci slots too short to really be resolve worthy. you'd want at least 2 gpu's and a rocket in there. in your chasis, you'd have gui video card, host card, decklink, and than a sas or esata card. but you can't have the last 2, and if you want to put in a second rocket in there for stereo work, you're just plain out of room. if they just built this with one slot more it would be good. I think 4 slots for expansion is a good number for resolve.

and JMR already makes rack mountable expansion chasis with 16 bay raid. but as you said they probably cost several times more if you went the cyclone route.

 

[Dustin Cross]

In the Cyclone you can have 5 PCIe cards. two double width and three single width. So two video, one rocket, one sas, and one open.

The rackmount JMR with 16 drives and x8 connection was something like $16,000 with drives when I talked to them. You had to buy the JMR drives. My Cyclone was under to $4000 with drives.


Dusty