I set up systems for the PC and edit as well. I am using a promise Fasttrak 66 IDE raid card with 4 20.4 gig Ultra ATA 66 drives. Striped as RAID 0, I get 35 megs per second sustained transfer rate. that's fast enough for dual stream editing at 15+ megs per second. Since DV is 3.6 megs per second this is way plenty.(posted 9032 days ago)I don't about doing that with a Mac, they don't seem to have the openess that PC's have. This might work on it, but I don't know. Windows 95/98 can't do this either, only windows NT.
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