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Topic: GDC PSD-300P Storage units
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 07-03-2014 12:09 AM
Another question arises:
With the PSD-300P units (the one with three, 2.5inch laptop drives) that is connected by one cable to the SX-3000 unit, any reports of durability and longevity with the drives in these units?
We have these in our location, and with being on all the time as with the BARCO they're attached to, do these things needed to be rebooted as with the SX3000, for heard that doing reboots on these RAID units is asking for trouble.
But, it seems with weekly reboots of both the SX-3000 (with shutting it down via the GDC GUI in the TMS) and projector, I still have issues with skipping and freezing content during playback, where one has to stop the playback, shut down the IMB, then power off the projector for a few seconds then turn back on the projector which turns powers back up the IMB. Then, head back to the GUI and restart where one left off.
I wonder on using laptop drives being that of their smaller size than regular 3.5 SATA drives if these smaller drives can hold up for duration.
I definitely miss full sized servers.
thx -Monte
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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From: Annapolis, MD
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posted 07-05-2014 04:59 PM
They are consumer drives and not very speedy ones at that:
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CinemaStar C5K1000, which offers 1TB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor, meeting the needs of a growing number of CE OEMs who wish to offer video recording and playback features in a compact design, while still offering greater capacity. At 5400 RPM, the 9.5mm, 2.5-inch CinemaStar C5K1000 is available in 1TB, 750GB and 640GB capacities and specifies a read/write power consumption as low as 1.5W and a quiet operation at 2.4 bels idle.
Probably a bit underspecified for cinema applications. All of the full-size cinema servers are using 7200RPM and faster drives.
I'm surprised GDC didn't go with a faster and more robust drive. Since their drives are external, they don't have the heat considerations that those that have IMS systems have to consider (Doremi, Barco and USL). Since they (wisely) went with external storage...take advantage of that fact and use fast/durable drives.
I still prefer the traditional servers (with the coax cables and internal mediablock as opposed to the "integrated" mediablock. The system is inherently more robust except for the effin' Enigma module imposed upon us by the paranoia of the industry over who is stealing what, how and how much is actually lost. Even for 4K, I'll take four-3G lines over the IMB concept with the audio moving to the freaking IMB.
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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
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posted 07-06-2014 12:18 AM
True, reboot time for the SX-3000 isn't that bad at all - I'll give it that a plus sign.
From the time I close the breaker in the breaker panel to put power to the BARCOS, til the green light comes on below the TV screen on the TMS is between 90 to 120 seconds....which is a LOT better than rebooting a Dolby DSS200 server, which almost takes 5 minutes from when one turns back on the UPS, that the server, CP850 Processor and the USL monitor amps, til the green light is illuminated below the TV screen to let me try to reconnect to that assigned screen.
To add: We did have the PSD-300u, rack mount units with the 3.5 drives in them, but we had horrible issues with these units (mainly due to the three SATA cables running into the SX-3000 having connection issues since the 300u unit was just sitting on top of the projector, thus it was chosen to do the 300i upgrade with the single cable that can be locked into place on the IMB) where there were times I had to turn off the unit, open the bay door to reseat the drives, then power back up to get content to play normally .. and this was long before the instruction of proper procedure of how to do a correct reboot by shutting down the IMB via the "Shutdown" menu in the GUI, THEN, power off the projector either by the power switch or breaker.
-Monte
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