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With these 10K drives, they are only 74 GB, i assume alot of you would be buying them because you are working with large files. My question is , does it get annoying working with a small high speed HD when you have a lot of other stuff stored on slower but larger HD's, which you might need to access as well?

Also how long have these 10k drives being available for us to put into out macs?
 
Are there any Logic Pro users here? I remember seing one in here, but I don't remember who he(or she) was... :eek:

Anyway..

Does anybody know how Logic uses the HDs? Does it use som kind of scratch disk to gather a mix of all the audio files before passing the digital sound on to a DAC? Or does it read the digital audio files individually from the disk straight thru processing to DAC?

If the first case, then what disk does it use as scratch? The same disk as where the audio files are stored?

Or am i just totally lost in the jungle? :D :D :rolleyes:
 
Can anyone tell me what the average time is (PST) that these bad boys usually ship? I want to know when I should look extra hard at my email! lol
 
just a little off-topic ...

don't think that people only wait for their powermac dual g5 2.5 right now. i also ordered a powerbook 17" (11th aug) and apple tells me, to wait until 8th septembre until delivery ... when i called the apple store the opperator told me, that she did not know what is slowing this delivery down, though it will come directly from taiwan and she does not know if anything will happen to the powerbook next week @ apple paris (she told me that twice until now).

well, i just got motion which does not run on any of my current macs ...
signing
.a guy waiting in switzerland
 
Now I can finally say.....WOOOOOHOOOOO....because I have gotten a shipping notice from MacConnection, so it is official. It is in transit with Airborne Express (DHL) via Ground. I wonder if it will get here by the end of the week. They are in Ohio, I am in California. :) :) :)
 
Does anybody's fans randomly (maybe not maybe so, idk) kick up then quiet down really fast? They only do it when I'm at the finder with maybe iTunes, safari, and iChat open. They never kick up while gaming.

Anybody have this, too?
 
HL-Audio said:
Are there any Logic Pro users here? I remember seing one in here, but I don't remember who he(or she) was... :eek:

Anyway..

Does anybody know how Logic uses the HDs? Does it use som kind of scratch disk to gather a mix of all the audio files before passing the digital sound on to a DAC? Or does it read the digital audio files individually from the disk straight thru processing to DAC?

If the first case, then what disk does it use as scratch? The same disk as where the audio files are stored?

Or am i just totally lost in the jungle? :D :D :rolleyes:
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I am a Logic Pro user...although I think you are referring to someone else since I never mentioned I use this software here. However, if I am not wrong, audio files are individually read straight from the HD...I don't think they use scratch disk. However, when Logic records audio, it might use a scratch disk or just via memory. I am not exactly sure. You should join the Yahoo Forum for Logic Users to ask this question.
 
I don't use logic, but I can tell you as a 8 year 3d animation art director, that..Any new software use's the HD some how, so I have on all my apple's a partition HD on a 76gig raptor, the partition is 36gigs. I then go in to the pref. in the program i am using and tell it to use that partition, for storing and swap/scratch..etc. Hope that helps a little.
 
invaLPsion said:
Well, I can't here it over the PC that's 20 feet away from where I sit. The G5 is about 3 feet away.
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Really??? The PC I have I think is the same volume or quieter (I know, blasphemy). It's sorta hard to tell, but I can definitely hear my G5. It's not as whisper as you say yours is. Wonder why? Just curious, do you have a superdrive and/or a 250 GB HD? It might also have to do with my G5 not being tucked under a desk while my PC is...? The PC is a 2.4 P4 Dell, so it honestly shouldn't be that quiet. ;)

As for the fan spin up/down issue, yes I have that. I honestly don't find it too annoying though. And I think in a few days or weeks I won't even notice it. As for spinning up during games, I played a few demos last night but had headphones on so I can't tell you. Today I'm getting my speakers and will be able to listen to the fans more carefully during games.
 
How quiet is quiet?

kylector said:
Really??? The PC I have I think is the same volume or quieter (I know, blasphemy). It's sorta hard to tell, but I can definitely hear my G5. It's not as whisper as you say yours is. Wonder why? Just curious, do you have a superdrive and/or a 250 GB HD? It might also have to do with my G5 not being tucked under a desk while my PC is...? The PC is a 2.4 P4 Dell, so it honestly shouldn't be that quiet. ;)

As for the fan spin up/down issue, yes I have that. I honestly don't find it too annoying though. And I think in a few days or weeks I won't even notice it. As for spinning up during games, I played a few demos last night but had headphones on so I can't tell you. Today I'm getting my speakers and will be able to listen to the fans more carefully during games.
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Kylector, you and I have the same noise perception. This helps assure me that my machine is "normal" in as much as I think most stock G5's are. The bottom line is that its a great improvent over my G4 which could be heard in the room next door. iMacs and the cube were "really" quiet.

If there is any other ambient noise in the room, the G5 fades into the wallpaper. The fan revs bring attention to the box. I'm still wondering if a better graphics card and a little more RAM would help make that less frequent. I know going from 512MB to 1.5 GB RAM really helped. :)
 
brykken said:
Can anyone tell me what the average time is (PST) that these bad boys usually ship? I want to know when I should look extra hard at my email! lol
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If you order today you will not see it until at least the 2nd week of Sept.
I got to the point that I'm just going to wait until the next lineup. It would be nice to have one but no longer a need. Apple making us all wait showed me that.
 
eqtime said:
Now I can finally say.....WOOOOOHOOOOO....because I have gotten a shipping notice from MacConnection, so it is official. It is in transit with Airborne Express (DHL) via Ground. I wonder if it will get here by the end of the week. They are in Ohio, I am in California. :) :) :)
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I am jealous - I also live in California....:(

Let me know when it comes.

Kathy
also ordered from MacConnection :eek:
 
si-valleyguy said:
Kylector, you and I have the same noise perception. This helps assure me that my machine is "normal" in as much as I think most stock G5's are. The bottom line is that its a great improvent over my G4 which could be heard in the room next door. iMacs and the cube were "really" quiet.

If there is any other ambient noise in the room, the G5 fades into the wallpaper. The fan revs bring attention to the box. I'm still wondering if a better graphics card and a little more RAM would help make that less frequent. I know going from 512MB to 1.5 GB RAM really helped. :)
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Yes, I would agree. It is MUCH quieter than my Sawtooth G4, that's for sure. Any noise in the room totally washes it out, though. It doesn't sound like a fan, either. It sounds like a HD-hum or something. Maybe the cooling-pump? I'm slightly sensitive to noise in this room because this is where I sleep. That's not to say that it keeps me up, not even close, but I can hear it.

I get my RAM upgrade today, from 512 MB to 1.5 GB also, and I had heard that it helps with the fan revs. It is good to hear that it helped for you.
 
Time for a new list.

I think we need a new list. I believe that most people who ordered a 2.5 from the Apple store on the 9th June with anything except the NV6800 will have received their machines now. It is clear that 2.5's are shipping and that apple is working trough the backlog.

We need a new list of people who are waiting for 2.5's and NV6800's, not the stand alone cards but the complete machines. I think the shipping date of those who originally ordered 9600's or 9800's and changed the order are out of line with those of the people who ordered machines post NV6800 announcement and had them configured from day one.

I don't know how to do this, but someone could do it it would be great.
 
Now I am a bit worried since I uses the G5 for audio recording. Will the fan suddenly goes berserk while I am recording?...since sometimes I set up the microphone in the same room. That would be totally bad. :mad:
 
HL-Audio said:
If you are talking about installing a wd raptor, it would be very nice to know about the performance gain and noise levels. :) Someone I know told me they were quite noisy, but I'm not shure I'm willing to believe that... :DHL
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I installed the 74GB Raptor in my wife's dual 2 G5 and while it is certainly louder than the 7200, it's much quieter than the external 500GB LaCie that I've been using for backup on the other side of the room.

If you can justify the cost for the added speed, then the noise shouldn't deter you from the Raptor.
 
eqtime said:
Now I am a bit worried since I uses the G5 for audio recording. Will the fan suddenly goes berserk while I am recording?...since sometimes I set up the microphone in the same room. That would be totally bad. :mad:
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You should be able to address this during recording by adjusting processer performance to Reduced. I wouldn't leave it there, of course, but fan noise seems to drop considerably.
 
eqtime said:
I am a Logic Pro user...although I think you are referring to someone else since I never mentioned I use this software here. However, if I am not wrong, audio files are individually read straight from the HD...I don't think they use scratch disk. However, when Logic records audio, it might use a scratch disk or just via memory. I am not exactly sure. You should join the Yahoo Forum for Logic Users to ask this question.
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http://community.sonikmatter.com Go to the forums for some lots of threads about logic. --E
 
aussiemac86 said:
With these 10K drives, they are only 74 GB, i assume alot of you would be buying them because you are working with large files. My question is , does it get annoying working with a small high speed HD when you have a lot of other stuff stored on slower but larger HD's, which you might need to access as well?

Also how long have these 10k drives being available for us to put into out macs?
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What you do is store the files on your 250GB, but you use the 74GB as a swap or scratch drive. Whenever you're working on anything in any application, it is either loaded into RAM or onto the designated scratch disk. Using a 10,000 RPM disk as a scratch would noticeably improve the application's performance and most likely increase productivity.
 
For those curious about the western digital raptors

Go to G5support.com and read about them. Then just do what I did. Google search and read all the reviews and performance stats. The WD740 is pretty high tech, moves data at a killer rate for an SATA, great to use as a system drive for the OS and applications, and unlike the 36gig, it has the fluid bearings. If you want silence get a slower drive. However these are the quitest 10k drives made right now I believe. barefeats.com has info on them as well and raid performance too if I remember correctly. --E
 
JW Pepper said:
I think we need a new list. I believe that most people who ordered a 2.5 from the Apple store on the 9th June with anything except the NV6800 will have received their machines now. It is clear that 2.5's are shipping and that apple is working trough the backlog.
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Mehhh... not so much. I ordered @ 6:15AM PST on June 9th and my computer has yet to ship! :(
 
eqtime said:
Now I can finally say.....WOOOOOHOOOOO....because I have gotten a shipping notice from MacConnection, so it is official. It is in transit with Airborne Express (DHL) via Ground. I wonder if it will get here by the end of the week. They are in Ohio, I am in California. :) :) :)
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If they gave you a tracking number, then you can go to the Fed-EX website to track your delivery. You sound very excited, what a feeling.
 
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