Pipeline SC - Suggested Hardware Configurations for SD Ingest Processing; Suggested Hardware Configurations for HD Ingest Processing

Chapter 3
Implementing Pipeline & Installing Software
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March, 2009
Suggested Hardware Configurations for SD Ingest Processing
Each system should have media storage (internal or directly attached to the host system) with adequate
storage to support 24 hours of captured media in the selected format. The media drive must be separate
from the OS drive, and meet the specified minimum requirements. For edit-during-ingest and transcode-
during-ingest workflows, increased I/O performance is required to support the additional read processes,
and may require disk buffer cache drive system (see Pipeline User Guide disk buffering details).
Viewing HD preview streams causes high level CPU consumption, which may cause dropped frames.
Telestream recommends that you turn off preview during HD capture operations.
Single Channel System
• Intel Dual Core 2.00Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, SATA 1.5GBs 7200 RPM media storage drive
Dual Channel System
• Intel Dual Core 2.0Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, min. 2 drive RAID-0 SATA 1.5GBs 7200 RPM media storage par-
tition
Four Channel System
• Intel Quad Core (4 core) 2.33Ghz CPU, 4GB RAM, min. 3 drive RAID-0 SATA 1.5GBs 7200 RPM
media storage partition
Eight Channel System
• Intel Dual Quad Core (8 cores) 2.33Ghz CPU, 6GB RAM, min. 4 drive RAID-0 SATA 3GBs 7200 RPM
media storage partition
Suggested Hardware Configurations for HD Ingest Processing
Each system should have media storage local to the host system, with adequate storage to support 24
hours of captured media in the selected format. The media drive must be separate from the OS drive, and
meet the specified minimum requirements. For edit-during-ingest and transcode-during-ingest workflows
an additional disk buffer cache drive system is required.
Single Channel System
• Intel Dual Core 2.6Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, min. 2 drive RAID-0 SATA 7200 RPM media storage partition
Dual Channel System
• Intel Quad Core (4 cores) 3.0Ghz CPU, 6GB RAM, min. 4 drive RAID-0 SATA 1.5GBs 7200 RPM
media storage partition
Four Channel System
• Intel Dual Quad Core (8 cores) 3.0Ghz CPU, 8GB RAM, min. 8 drive RAID-0 SATA 1.5GBs 7200 RPM
media storage partition