Sorry for cross-posting.
I use both Macs and PCs and will continue to do so.
My MacPro suffers from early-adopter syndrome -- it's a 2.1 with 32-bit bus. Works fine for stuff that doesn't need a lot of speed, very reliable but too heavy to easily transport, which I have to do these days. Don't need to replace it yet --- waiting to see what comes next year.
I build my own PCs, and happened to recently build a pretty fast machine with one socket 2011 6-core Core i7, a couple of GTX 560 Tis (before the faster cards came out, RAM, drives, etc. Nothing special.
But recently someone posted useful into re turning this very machine into a Hackintosh -- I already had all the parts including Lion, so I made a Lion boot drive for the system and it works! Oddly it seems a bit faster as a Mac than as a W7 machine. Way faster than my 2007 MacPro.
Here's a link to the build I used:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=264&t=57962
Most things work perfectly.
I have one FCPX glitch and one RAID question.
FCPX 10.0.3 seems fine, skims really quickly, color corrects properly (though WTF with the Color Board interface?) and generates output files -- but there is a hitch.
Files do not play. Hit the spacebar, or the L key, or click the play arrow icon, and the icon changes as it should, but the image stays parked. I don't think it's a hardware issue, because I can open the same file in the finder and they play properly in QT Player 7 Pro and 10 in the finder.
Any ideas?
Next, a trickier problem. I want to set up a large internal hardware or software RAID (0 or 5) for large media files I deal with. These are often captured on a W7 PC as Quicktime-wrapped Cineform RAW files, 3296 x 2472, 12-bit. While these can actually be recorded to a single SATA drive (at about 16 fps, the usual capture speed) they won't play back from a single drive at 24 fps. So I need a RAID.
I was just striping drives in Windows 7. Also striped drives on the old MacPro. All was fine... until I wanted to have a cross-platform RAID in one machine -- so I could work on the same files in both Mac and PC software. (Some things are not available on Macs, others not available on PCs.)
I tried Paragon's software again today -- one lets you read Mac Drives on a PC, the other does the opposite -- but it won't recognize Mac RAIDs on a PC nor PC RAIDs on a Mac. Won't try MacDrive again, it sucked.
Are there any hardware RAID cards (preferably that have internal SATA connectors) that have good OSX and PC drivers and will format a RAID in such a way that both platforms can read and write to it? 5 or 6 ports would be fine.
Will external RAIDs with eSATA port work? I had not great luck recently with a G-RAID 6TB, it had different problems with different ports, so I often just used FW or even USB2 to just copy files overnight. This motherboard does have USB3 ports, which I suppose means one of the external boxes that lets you put together a RAID that interfaces by USB3 or eSATA would work once the Mac properly works with USB3 (real soon now, since the Macbook Pro supports it)?
Something like this:
http://www.provantage.com/startech-sat3540u3er~7STR92FL.htm
I prefer something where I can swap between different arrays -- so this would be appealing and it's cheap enough to get multiple enclosures as long as the drives can be read and written to cross platform. Obviously Thunderbolt is out for the time being.
All advice appreciated.
Thanks.
Jeff Kreines
Lurking but still around...
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