Digital Video Editing tested a new Dell workstation, the Precsion 390, with a new Intel Core 2 chip inside.
They liked the chip, the case, the acoustics (they said it was the quietest workstation they ever tested) and these new 1 inch SCSI drives that just came out.
The boot drive on our test machine is an 80 GB SATAII 7200RPM disk with an 8MB cache, a basic drive that got the job done, but one of the more astonishing surprises was the drive D: that was installed on our machine, consisting of a RAID 0 configuration of those two 15,000RPM 146GB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hard disk drives. We're told that these are the next generation of hard disk drives, and as soon as we ran our disk speed benchmark on this array, the blazing write speed of 160MB/sec. and read speed of an astonishing 178MB/sec. did the talking for them. It was simply the fastest disk array we've tested inside a workstation.
The SAS drives are way pricey though.
It would be nice if videoediting.com included some NLE benchmarks in their tests.
They liked the chip, the case, the acoustics (they said it was the quietest workstation they ever tested) and these new 1 inch SCSI drives that just came out.
The boot drive on our test machine is an 80 GB SATAII 7200RPM disk with an 8MB cache, a basic drive that got the job done, but one of the more astonishing surprises was the drive D: that was installed on our machine, consisting of a RAID 0 configuration of those two 15,000RPM 146GB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hard disk drives. We're told that these are the next generation of hard disk drives, and as soon as we ran our disk speed benchmark on this array, the blazing write speed of 160MB/sec. and read speed of an astonishing 178MB/sec. did the talking for them. It was simply the fastest disk array we've tested inside a workstation.
The SAS drives are way pricey though.
It would be nice if videoediting.com included some NLE benchmarks in their tests.