PAR-Harddrives
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Tom –
A good drive is the Micropolis 2217A 1.6 Gig IDE hard drive. This will hold up
to 15 minutes of animation – although you'll be most satisfied with the
throughput using only the first 2/3 of the disk.
Hard Drives International, which advertises in nearly all the trades, is now
offering the drive for under $900. Be sure to get the IDE, though. The PAR will
only run with IDE drives (and besides, I haven't heard good things about the
SCSI version of this drive in terms of reliability).
Haven't seen you in one of our 3D Studio User Group meetings – keepin' busy, I
suppose? Might want to drop in on us in November, we'll be demo-ing R4 and,
hopefully, Razor Pro – a Windows-based non-linear digital editor that will work
with native PAR files directly!
Talk to you soon.
bob
How are you! I've been meaning to come down to a meeting but haven'tmade it.
Please keep me on the mailing list… Thanks for info re Micropolis. I have
also heard that they are the best drives for animation and video. DO you
happen to know whether all of their drives are "AV" or only some specifically
so designated.
I also heard that IDE is better for animation, but was considering putting a
drive into an extenral case for transportability, and using a SCSI drive would
be the natural move. I guess this is not recommended as compared to the IDE
drives?
Thanks again for your help and hope to see you soon. Going to COMDEX?
Tom –
AV drives are the SCSI variety – unfortunately, not the IDE ( that the PAR
uses). Nevertheless, I've never seen a problem with Micropolis thermal
recalibration. Putting one in a case isn't a bad idea, but the PAR doesn't
offer an external port (although you could rig something up), since the drive
controller is part of the PAR board, and bypasses the system bios and DOS.
Not making it to COMDEX this year, unfortunately. Hope to you see at a meeting
sometime soon! Best of luck.
bob