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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Hackintosh for Resolve

A computer is a computer, a computer built for professional use will be just as good. To me, Apple makes a big heavy boat anchor that you have to modify to fit in a rack. Apple needs to re-configure their approach to the Pro Market desperately. I've been dissatisfied for years. I spend more money on Hackintoshes but I get more out of them than a MAcPro can give me. Plus I can build them in any case without a fuss, I prefer 4U Rack systems. My only gripe is I can't fit water cooling in a 4U as easily as a tower.
If you can't do the research and figure this out then don't do it. I wouldn't suggest any of you doing this because it requires research and experience, things that most of us don't have time for when there are more important things to research. I do it because its easy for me, I've done the research for the past 4-5 years when apple first made the switch to Intel. I get a new motherboard and spend an afternoon editing the .plists and creating a gfx string.
 
Well,
i wait your test David ;)
I know what you ordered is beautiful;)?
 
hey DAvid thanks for your post in aquamac forum,
If you need help ask me too;)
I hope you have taken this type of water cooling.
otherwise you will have serious problems to put the cards in the other half remember that the case should be as big as corsair 800D Louis let me know.

if you are interesssed i give you boot sequence is nice :)
see 2 pics
 

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DAvid ok I did want these drivers to put in the extra folder and the new chameleon from Ifabio , I hope you serve as served to me.
Thanks to the AQUAMAC the system works fine ,We tried both evga 4 sli and gigabyte ud9 but pt6ws supercomputer is the best ever.i recommend you install the OS 10.6.3 with only 4 GB of RAM and 1 video card. Then update to 10.6.6 and add the rest of the hardware.
If you need help let me know you with files, downloaded and even pfix kext helper b7.

Luigi

http://rapidshare.com/files/442965742/kext.zip
 
Hi Luigi,

that boot screen looks pretty cool:001_cool:
Thanks a lot!!!

I ordered the same water cooling system as you did... I'm glad that you have already good experiences with it! And thanks for the information... I'll install it the way you recommended.

Unfortunately some parts are still missing... but everything should be here on Friday. Did you had to modify the boot.list in your isntaller to install OSX with your GPU?

David
 
Hello David,
I installed everything with an old 8800 GT, then I installed the drivers and put all the cards.
let me know when you get everything, I'm glad you got the GTX 480 will give you a boost;)
You have already tried the matrox hd compressor?
Today is 15 days and nights that the asus p6t7ws and 'turned on and still did not give me an error or kernel panic. beautiful.
I'm working on sleep on the info in your control panel. I'll 'know.
Hello David hold on power;) in a few days you'll have everything at home;)
 
Alex Carr said:
A computer is a computer, a computer built for professional use will be just as good. To me, Apple makes a big heavy boat anchor that you have to modify to fit in a rack. Apple needs to re-configure their approach to the Pro Market desperately. I've been dissatisfied for years.
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Same for me. Plus couple of other things, mainly OS related. (Have you ever tried open 150k files folder (movie in .DPX) in finder?)

Alex Carr said:
If you can't do the research and figure this out then don't do it. I wouldn't suggest any of you doing this because it requires research and experience, things that most of us don't have time for when there are more important things to research. I do it because its easy for me, I've done the research for the past 4-5 years when apple first made the switch to Intel. I get a new motherboard and spend an afternoon editing the .plists and creating a gfx string.
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True. Even many-times-tried combinations of hw and sw hesitate to work. You can get another revision of mobo and spend day or two just solving basic things - i.e. Or after minor upgrade of sw you can end with "black box" and spend couple of days to work out.
 
Aleksandar Colancevski said:
4 disk raid0
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Pardon my French, but that's just balls out nuts.
4 times the chance of failure - and if you lose one, you lose all because RAID 0 has NO redundancy whatsoever.

For your sake I really hope you have a good backup configuration.

Yes, RAID 0 is very fast, but it's also a very high risk setup.

I've seen too many 16 drive RAID5 arrays rebuilding due to a failed drive to ever trust RAID 0 without it being part of a 0+1 or 1+0 setup.
 
Thor Melsted said:
Yes, RAID 0 is very fast, but it's also a very high risk setup.
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I don´t know Aleksander´s setup, but in our case this is intended just for render cache. It does over 400MB/s r/w with four "green" (read cheap) disks as software raid. We had no success with onboard raid controller, because ICH10R raid capabilities are AFAIK unsupported in OSx86. There is also JMicron and Marvell (supported) raid controllers onboard, but both have just pair of connectors.
 
Thor Melsted said:
Pardon my French, but that's just balls out nuts.
4 times the chance of failure - and if you lose one, you lose all because RAID 0 has NO redundancy whatsoever.

For your sake I really hope you have a good backup configuration.

Yes, RAID 0 is very fast, but it's also a very high risk setup.

I've seen too many 16 drive RAID5 arrays rebuilding due to a failed drive to ever trust RAID 0 without it being part of a 0+1 or 1+0 setup.
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Maybe I am crazy or lucky, but in my 17 year experience(started on Quadra840AV with 2GB Micronet raid0 - still working) never had drive failure. Still thinking that if you buy server quality drives you are safe enough.
I always do backup of project files daily on other disks and delete source from backup after finish of the project.
I have always bought new drives because capcity of the old is not enough. My previous raid0 was 4 300gb drives which I use now for boot drives or on the shelve backup.
Reminder: with Diskwarior you can see how many hours your drive have worked so you probably predict the failure. Yes, maybe I am crazy that I trust manufaturers specs.
 
Aleksandar Colancevski said:
Maybe I am crazy or lucky, but in my 17 year experience(started on Quadra840AV with 2GB Micronet raid0 - still working) never had drive failure. Still thinking that if you buy server quality drives you are safe enough.
I always do backup of project files daily on other disks and delete source from backup after finish of the project.
I have always bought new drives because capcity of the old is not enough. My previous raid0 was 4 300gb drives which I use now for boot drives or on the shelve backup.
Reminder: with Diskwarior you can see how many hours your drive have worked so you probably predict the failure. Yes, maybe I am crazy that I trust manufaturers specs.
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I'm running now a RAID 10 on my Windows workstation with 8x 1TB Samsung F3 (pretty fast drives) connected to a LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i with BBU. But even a RAID 10 isn't really secure. For my new Hackintosh workstation, I'll replace the LSI (which will move into my backup server) through an Areca ARC-1880-i (for OSX support). The 8 drives will be put together to a RAID0 with daily backups and all project files saved on the server. Also all data on the server is duplicated to 2TB hard disks which are kept safe in a differt location. That way I'm even secured against a potential fire or water damage.

Maybe it's not the most bullet proof setup, but you can't get even close to similar transfer rates (my RAID10: 1100MB/s read / 650MB/s write) and 100% data security without spending way more money.
 
Aleksandar Colancevski said:
Maybe I am crazy or lucky, ... never had drive failure. Still thinking that if you buy server quality drives you are safe enough.
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We run 24 disk SAN here and in past three years we had to replace more than 10 disc. The truth is, that 8 of them were from one bunch - we returned whole bunch under warranty.
All of them are 24/7 server grade disks.
Most of them died in first week of service.
We have RAID 6 so no problem here, but you ARE crazy AND lucky! :devil:
 
Jan Prochazka said:
We run 24 disk SAN here and in past three years we had to replace more than 10 disc. The truth is, that 8 of them were from one bunch - we returned whole bunch under warranty.
All of them are 24/7 server grade disks.
Most of them died in first week of service.
We have RAID 6 so no problem here, but you ARE crazy AND lucky! :devil:
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I think your supplier sucks.:emote_hippie:
I have a question for all of you: If raid 0 is so unreliable, what happens if Red drive fail after a day of shooting exclusive documentary material? Or you say, hold your thought Mr.President, we have to change the drive in order to make backup, or maybe you say to the capricorn to repeat that beautiful jump.
After all rebuilding a raid is slower than making backup of source material on other disks.
I make several raid 1 from 2drives and copy R3D. One of the drives I put into the workstation the other goes on the shelve. So why do I need raid 5,6,10,x?
If drive fails I have the project, I have the source, we all have realtime systems, so really I don't understand what is the paranoya about failing drives. It just 2 espressos more to give to your client, with raid 5 or whatever you will tell him to call you tommorow to check if the raid is finished rebuilding.
 
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