once again, i think apple made some concessions knowing how things truely are...for HD space, two 250 mb drives should satisfy 95% of the people out there...and for the people that need more, there is external firewire800...that 5% will never have enough HD space inside a tower anyway and understand the need for external drives...same for 2 optical drives...with a super drive, once again 90% plus will be fine (remember that with lots of ram and hypertransport you can copy a dvd in seconds)...the superdrive can do everything you need...and if you really need/desire a second drive, boom, you can get a firewire or usb2 external...if you are using your optical constantly and need two, having one up on the desk ain't a bad thing, just part of work...
the internal layout of this case is really a work of art...and i love how you just slide in a new HD till it "clicks" into space...i think it will be very easy to get to the ram, HD and pci slots...i can't see a single wire hanging anywhere in any of the photo shots i've seen
Not so. This is a machine for pros. A main drive plus two drives in a RAID (attached to a PCI controller) is very very common with anyone making heavy use of FCP and shake.
I wonder if twisting the HDD's so they mount across ways as opposed to lengthwise, in addition to some subtle tweaking of the optical placement might allow for the PM o have 4 (or at least 3) HDD's.
I've found that it's more common for 'pro' people working with FCP/Shake to use external storage. Especially SCSI 160/320 RAIDs (yes, some of us still use SCSI). I think once that FW800 (and 1600>3200 eventually) catches on in the third-party manufacturing space the SCSI thing might finally die, but until *we* can only get ultra-fast throughput through SCSI, it's here to stay. I also have two IDE drives striped as a 'mini-RAID' inside my machine, and it's pretty fast...but nothing I could ever use for uncompressed SD (and never HD) video.
Apple has got something up their sleeve with regard to this workspace, I'm sure. And I'm sure this new QT codec (Pixlet/Alpine) has a lot to do with it. Low-bandwith high-resolution video compression. Aja Io and FCP4 working uncompressed video over a single FW400 connection (!). Interesting times.
I'd second that, but from Apple's drawings, there isn't any space left in that case AT ALL. Kind of odd...I think they're being a bit presumptious this time. For a lot of possible switchers, not being able to have two built-in optical drives kind of sucks. Not a big deal to me, but for some people it is.
actually, there's a simple reason for this.
firewire 800 should be plenty fast enough for any external optical drive out there (though, if i am wrong, please tell me). apple wants people to start creating firewire 800 devices. third parties won't start making them since most people are still pretty happy with their firewire 400 peripherals. so how do you create demand to spur supply?
invent a need = more optical drives, hard drives, breakout boxes, etc. it's the same thing apple did to get all those usb developers back in '98. suddenly, third parties HAD to start making more usb devices.
you will now see more hardware developers make fw800 stuff, since there is a perceived need for it by the time these things ship.
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the internal layout of this case is really a work of art...and i love how you just slide in a new HD till it "clicks" into space...i think it will be very easy to get to the ram, HD and pci slots...i can't see a single wire hanging anywhere in any of the photo shots i've seen
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I wonder if twisting the HDD's so they mount across ways as opposed to lengthwise, in addition to some subtle tweaking of the optical placement might allow for the PM o have 4 (or at least 3) HDD's.
Apple has got something up their sleeve with regard to this workspace, I'm sure. And I'm sure this new QT codec (Pixlet/Alpine) has a lot to do with it. Low-bandwith high-resolution video compression. Aja Io and FCP4 working uncompressed video over a single FW400 connection (!). Interesting times.
Originally posted by fred_lj
I'd second that, but from Apple's drawings, there isn't any space left in that case AT ALL. Kind of odd...I think they're being a bit presumptious this time. For a lot of possible switchers, not being able to have two built-in optical drives kind of sucks. Not a big deal to me, but for some people it is.
actually, there's a simple reason for this.
firewire 800 should be plenty fast enough for any external optical drive out there (though, if i am wrong, please tell me). apple wants people to start creating firewire 800 devices. third parties won't start making them since most people are still pretty happy with their firewire 400 peripherals. so how do you create demand to spur supply?
invent a need = more optical drives, hard drives, breakout boxes, etc. it's the same thing apple did to get all those usb developers back in '98. suddenly, third parties HAD to start making more usb devices.
you will now see more hardware developers make fw800 stuff, since there is a perceived need for it by the time these things ship.