New Switcher... well kind of :)

Always loved macs (still have a IIc comewhere).
But am stuck in a PC world, slowly moving as much as I can to apple.

Yesterday Purchased my Mac Daddy The quad G5, Got it home installed 8gb of Ram, and Nvidia 7800, and a 500gb hdd.

Now thi is sitting beside my PC laptop, and amongst my 2 Mac mini's (I have 5 LCDs on my desk)

The G5 will mostly be used for Graphic editing, and video editing.

And if anyone knows a simple way to setup a Raid array of HDD's inside the mac I'd love to hear it.

that appears to be an amazing machine you just picked up......i think we need some pictures of your setup
-chris

sandals1621 said:

And if anyone knows a simple way to setup a Raid array of HDD's inside the mac I'd love to hear it.

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You can set up a software RAID array using Disk Utility.

A software RAID volume isn't bootable, though, so you'd still need another drive (Like an external FireWire 800) to boot from. (I'm assuming you'd use the RAID volume as a scratch disk.) Big as those towers are, they only have two drive bays.

Very impressive system, BTW.

Very nice setup, but may I ask what on earth you need two mac minis for? Especially when you have the most powerful Mac currently in existence?

Meyvn said:

Very nice setup, but may I ask what on earth you need two mac minis for? Especially when you have the most powerful Mac currently in existence?

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Good question, I don't know what I would do with that many computers. I think he needs to sell me one of his minis.

sandals1621 said:

Always loved macs (still have a IIc comewhere).
But am stuck in a PC world, slowly moving as much as I can to apple.

Yesterday Purchased my Mac Daddy The quad G5 Got it home installed 8gb of Ram, and Nvidia 7800, and a 500gb hdd.

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off-topic..but interesting that someone considers blowing $3,5k for a computer "slowly."

well i had a smiley that had signs that said "this thread is worthless without pics." but i must have deleted it. sounds like a very nice setup.

I'll take some pics once I clean the desxk up a bit

The 2 mac mini's ..... 1 is mainly for the wife, the other one I bought last spring as a portable mac, I've already got 2500 in a windows laptop and didn't want to drop that on a powerbook too, so I bought a mac mini. The Main Reason I still have them all up and running is for a Render Farm for After effects.

That's awesome. I'm saving up for a Quad G5 with 16GB of RAM just so I can say I have one.

Holy cow... I haven't even hit the performance ceiling of my Dual 2.3 yet!

I'll buy a quad G5 when I need a computer that can estimate the total amount of dark matter in the universe to the nearest milligram.

sevenhelmet said:

Holy cow... I haven't even hit the performance ceiling of my Dual 2.3 yet!

I'll buy a quad G5 when I need a computer that can estimate the total amount of dark matter in the universe to the nearest milligram.

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you'd think.... But already this morning I bogged it down

Of course I was previewing a File I had just made in motion while importing some raw files into photoshop