#PAR vs MAX
John,
The way the MAX gets double the throughput is by dividing a frame into two
fields, each field going to a seperate drive. I extrapolated from there. So
that if you had four drives say, to maximize the throughput you'd have to split
the fields again. Just a speculation, but how else? Just having multiple drives
won't help. If you split the images up into fields then you are pushing half
the data and can go for lower compression and therefore better quality. The PAR
will soon have the capability to mount two IDE's but this won't affect the
compression ratio as you won't be able to split the frame into two fields.
Supposedly Matrox is working on this technique although it won't be offered in
the first generation as you know.
-JE