<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 1:48 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:36:56PM -0500, Chris Ribe wrote:<br>> In general, we often get the SCSI's for less per GIG than the ATA's,<br>> which seems a excellent deal, what with hot-swap and hardware RAID.
<br>> Trailing Edge Technology is now officially Fast Enough.<br>><br>> Really? Because I was just browsing completed listings, and I didn't see<br>> anything that had sold and shipped for less than $.65/GB, which is about 3
<br>> times the cost of SATA storage. Once you add the cost of RAID controllers<br>> and a chassis that can accommodate the dozen or so drives you need to get a<br>> reasonable amount of storage, SCSI is just a waste of time.
<br><br></div>I've just looked up bare 146s on eBay; the ones I see selling without<br>sleds went for between 40 and 90 bucks, which is .25 to .55/GB.<br><br>.25 is close enough for me. :-)</blockquote><div><br>My mistake,. I only looked up 36s.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> It may have its applications, but video storage isn't one of them.
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>I'm tempted to say "go open the case on one of your Grass Valley<br>Profile's", but that would be mean. :-)<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br>Just for posterity, here's what we have that plays video directly to air:<br><br>- 360 Systems ImageServers: PATA<br>- Apple Xsan: PATA<br>- Harris Inscriber: SATA<br>- Pinnacle Thunder: PATA<br><br>-chris<br>
<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>