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Softraid 6.2 11/6/2024 ![]() (Today’s equivalent priced offering is the 2022 Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.) The Pro sports 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports. These machines are wildly popular among small shops like mine. From ThunderBay 4 my system delivers two smooth full rez 4K 24fps streams- in either Mojave or currently, Catalina. Editing varies from old SD to HD to Ultra and DCI 4K video. I’ve set it up to boot into two partitions, the first for regular assignments, the second for advanced GPU work and testing of apps under new operating systems. The engine is-don’t laugh-a 2013 Mac Pro 3.5 Mhz 6-core cylinder, stuffed with 64GB RAM (half the maximum allowed), and two medium power AMD D500 GPU’s, each with 3GB VRAM. The SoftRAID® bundle which came with your purchase, or upgrade.įor comparison, I’ll share my workstation environment which has been working without a burp since 2017, and with my ThunderBay 4 since 2019. ![]() An adapter cable if needed, stepping down from Thunderbolt 4 or 3 to 2.Two color sets of plastic craft/photo cases, 4 each set.Four matching 7200 RPM hard drives- I try to match the cache sizes too.ThunderBay 4 (or 8), hosting 4 (or 8) drives with Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s). ![]() TB 2 should deliver enough speed for at least 2 streams 4K ProRes (HQ).
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