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Stabilize Like Survivorman in the Wild

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EDT

Plantec’s POV: Building a Blazing-Fast, Reliable Drive System

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT

It’s been a while since my last report. I’ve been traveling and hosting film and animation conferences. In the mean time I’ve been refining my Software test bed computer. I spent a lot of time researching what would be the best way to go and it has paid off. I expected a little bit of speed gain from my old Pentium Core II test bed, which was actually a bit faster in terms of CPU speed. I was surprised at the tremendous increase in productivity that I actually achieved....

Copan Systems Has Got it MAID

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

We built a new architecture where we power-manage all the disk drives internally. In other words, if the applications aren't accessing the data, we turn the system off. BY doing that, assuming that we're allowed to turn all the drives off, I can put more physical drives in a denser footprint than anyone else....

Anamorphic HD, 48 FPS Movies, and Video From the Moon

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST

At the SMPTE Technical Conference at Exhibition in Hollywood, a technical session on “Image Acquisition,” chaired by Panasonic Broadcast product engineering manager Bill Hogan, looked at six very different topics related to digital camera technology....

Aberdeen Shows 50 TB Stirling Storage Server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST

The X881 is spec’d to deliver up to 64 concurrent HD video streams....