He was able to re-create a Fusion Drive using an SSD and a regular hard drive. Of course the 2 drive setups means more possibility of errors as if one drive fails, they both fail, but it seems more likely that 3rd parties will be able to offer Fusion drives.
He has also posted more on building your own Fusion Drive and Fusion Drive Loose ends.
Wow, hit over 500 posts today (can’t believe my 500th post was about Windows). Pretty surprising.
I hope people are enjoying my blog. I know I have gotten hits about my heart surgery, but not so sure on other hits, though I am slowly getting more followers on twitter, where all of my blog posts are linked to.
If you are out there, thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy my posts.
VideoCopilot has released it’s free Halloween pack for Elements 3D. You can download it now.
Can’t complain with free! Very cool of them to do this.
ArsTechnica has an excellent review of Windows 8. Anyone who is thinking of updating, should read this review, as it sounds like a weird mishmash of a touch interface and the old desktop that is not entirely successful on either.
I tried out the first developers preview and wasn’t a huge fan of the Metro interface, but at least it still had a start menu, the lack of start menu just seems odd, especially for desktop users.
There is also a seperate article on doing an upgrade install to Windows 8 from Windows 7. This is interesting as it is cheaper to do a download install than to get the DVD to install (at least it is still an option unlike for Mac).
Not posting them yet though. First off they are printed out, and second, not sure what the legality of that is. Will scan them and think about it.
Still pretty crazy to see. 2 photos of the heart muscle that they removed, one side completely white from the tendons that had formed to try and keep the valve working. Then 4 surgery shots, where you can really see just how small of an area they were working in. I mean a scalpel looks huge! And you can see where the heart and lung machine attached to my heart. And how the valve had turned white from the damage it was doing to itself. Wow, crazy. And really makes me give even more credit to my surgeon.
I am so glad I didn’t see these images soon after my surgery, but so cool to see now. Amazing what they did.
Overall am doing pretty damn well. Have so much more stamina than before, that it is obvious the condition is better.
Still seem to be overly sweating though. Am taking the subway part of the way to work and it is really hot down there. And between the walk to the station from the lot (damn they need a lot more parking at the lots for the Metro in Los Angeles) and the heat in the station I get really overheated, and when I stop, IE, when I get to the office and set my bags down (I am carrying 3 bads, one with 2 big things of water and ice, another with my iPad and Kindle and a third with my lunch, a towel and spare shirt) I really sweet for a bit before I can cool down. That is why I have the spare shirt and towel, and of course extra deodorant. Not getting out of breath, but certainly overheating.
And I am still pretty sore. Have been walking on the treadmill 30 minutes each morning, and doing some with my kettle bell, though only a 10 pounder for now, but that has left me pretty damn sore.
And yes, still having memory issues. Making sure to write everything down (not that I always didn’t), so that I don’t forget anything. Really seems to be more at the end of the day, and by the end of the week. I am not getting much done on weekends or in the evenings (not that I have much evenings), as I am resting from the week, as my body is obviously still tired and recovering, and 50 hour work weeks seem to be a lot when I am still recovering, and I am not sure the 2 and a half hours of driving each day helps much either.
Still so glad to be back at work and making money again. So glad we had insurance, but still expensive overall, and even worse was having a full 3 months down where I could not be making money. Need that income!
ArsTechnica has a good article on the difference between these processors in the new Macs.
Honestly I hadn’t realized there was so little difference in the mobile versions except clock speed (and the quad over dual core versions), though I did think that the i7 desktops had superior performance, cache and hyperthreading (strangely both mobile versions have hyperthreading).
Ken Stone has an excellent and thorough review of the new FCP X Update with many photos.
It is an excellent look, and the program does look better, but I still won’t be giving FCP X a spin again anytime soon, and no I am not just a hater who feels wounded by FCP X.
Honestly while I love the metadata capabilities, and think they should be included in other programs, I hate the timeline. It is unintuitive and unorganized. Cutting DR, I usually have shows with 12-15 Video Tracks and I like to keep them well organized so it is easy to see what is what, and easy to jump in for anyone else and replace a shot if need be, but the magnetic timeline is not at all conducive to that.
And it is not set up to easily be used in a multi-user multi-machine environment, which is essential for how I work.
I still don’t see forcing an editor to work a certain as possibly being the future of editing, no matter how fast it can be. Editors have ways that they like to work, and adding new ways is great, and if they are better people will use them, but being forced to use them is just unacceptable.
Anandtech has a very good article on the Mac Fusion Drive, and how it works and who it is good for.
Sounds great to me personally, and I would love one for my MacPro if that is possible (probably not).
I like the idea of the pinning and moving, as I have about 1 TB currently on my main system hard drive, so the 3TB with Fusion would be awesome. Hopefully a 3rd party can figure this out and have 256MB instead of 128MB with the 3TB.
I know, I know I should just go SSD, but I just don’t have enough hard drive space. I have all 4 drives in my MacPro with 2TB hard drives (would love to have 3’s some day) and no room to add an SSD at all (even have 2 optical drives, a DVD-R and a Blu-Ray burner as well)..
Apple has updated FCP X to 10.0.6 with many new features, but the biggest being, having 2 viewer windows now. Seems that one viewer thing didn’t work out too well for Apple. There is also multi-channel audio editing, a unified input window, an MXF plug in support and RED Camera Support with 5K resolution up from 4K.
Personally I think the FCP X’s unorganizable timeline is still a mess, but they are slowly making it better. Having dual viewer windows is a huge step forward to normal editors feeling comfortable with the program. Still I am not going to invest in it, as I still hate the timeline, and I don’t think that will ever improve.
And Phil Hodgetts has been using a beta version for a while, so he has a look at it. It seems pasting features is now back (from FCP 7, now Premiere Pro needs to implement this feature better than an all or nothing). He really goes into all the new features.
ArsTechnica also got it’s eye caught by the new Fusion drive, and speculates on how it works.
Let hops 3rd parties can figure this out, and we can have these additions for MacPro’s in the future. I would love to move my main drive to a Fusion drive in the future.
The 1 TB is an additional $250 for the MacMini and you can’t pre-order the new iMac’s yet, so you can’t see what the 3TB will set you back, but the price of a 3rd parties would be less, and well worth the speed increase.