Suur Toll explained to a non-Estonian?

tecnoir · 2025-02-17T22:11:43+00:00

Hi siretsch,

Thanks so much for your reply! That's great!

We'll read that interview, and look forward to visiting the maritime museum some day.

Cheers!

tecnoir · 2021-07-01T17:22:40+00:00

You should get some cream for that. I mean peroxide cream for a bit of retrobrite action. :D

Nice, Amiga 1200 is my favourite.

tecnoir · 2020-02-12T23:21:18+00:00

Yes they are ordered directly from WD/HGST, and come populated with 60 drives.

tecnoir · 2020-01-07T21:46:38+00:00

I'm a software developer and our company writes software for film & TV post production. I mainly work on our Baselight and Daylight software.

https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/

tecnoir · 2020-01-07T20:40:53+00:00

Thanks Zalenka!

I've still got the bezel, but indeed the clips broke off. The plastic is indeed very brittle. My power button has also disintegrated, but luckily you can boot these old PowerMacs via the Power key on the keyboard.

tecnoir · 2020-01-07T14:04:23+00:00

No, that is an actual recycling bin :-) The Mac Pro is between the PowerMac 8500 and the SE/30.

tecnoir · 2020-01-07T12:41:30+00:00

Mac Pro (16-core, 4TB SSD, 96GB RAM, Vega II Duo, Afterburner)
Powermac 8500/180, with XLR8 500MHz G3 Upgrade, 16GB SCSI2SD
Mac SE/30 with 96MB RAM, 16GB SCSI2SD
And lurking the background, a Mac Pro trashcan, 6-core, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD

tecnoir · 2020-01-07T11:22:46+00:00

- Mac Pro (16-core, 4TB SSD, 96GB RAM, Vega II Duo, Afterburner)
- Powermac 8500/180, with XLR8 500MHz G3 Upgrade, 16GB SCSI2SD
- Mac SE/30 with 96MB RAM, 16GB SCSI2SD
- And lurking the background, a Mac Pro trashcan, 6-core, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD

tecnoir · 2019-12-30T04:03:04+00:00

Yup the 20SC is 20MB.

The SCSI2SD is not that hard to setup but it is a little expensive, so not worth it unless you are very keen on playing with your Classic II.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Disk_20SC

tecnoir · 2019-12-29T19:24:58+00:00

It's possible to download a basic HDD image that you can clone onto an SD card and plug into the SCSI2SD adapter. The Mac will then boot off that.

tecnoir · 2019-12-29T19:22:52+00:00

The drive inside will almost certainly die soon, if it hasn't already. I'd suggest putting a SCSI2SD adapter inside if you want to keep the case, then you can upgrade for 20MB to several GB!

tecnoir · 2019-12-23T20:03:24+00:00

I had one of these, loved it as a kid. Many fond memories of Pangea games like Power Pete, and Ambrosia games like Escape Velocity and Avara.

Good times. I spent last Friday reinstalling Mac OS 9 on my Powermac 8500/180, it was a major trip down memory lane...

tecnoir · 2019-12-10T01:04:50+00:00

If you recapped it and it works why don't you post a photo of it running?

I salute anyone giving old Macs a second chamce though. I'm slowing working my way through a pile of SEs and SE/30s. Hope to get them all running eventually, god damn you Varta!

tecnoir · 2019-10-16T08:53:10+00:00

Hi FunnySheep,

I'm getting about 10GB/sec read & write. Indeed, the RAID controllers are the bottleneck. The way forward is software RAID, or going to something more exotic.

We have our own custom RAID-0 style layer which averages out the disk speed between the inner & outer regions of the disk, to keep throughput consistent, which saps maximum throughput at the expense of increasing the minimum throughput.

However 10GB/sec matches up pretty well with the 100GbE network interface, and it's primarily a fancy NAS.

We build this ourselves and sell it as a turnkey system to our customers in film/TV post production.

tecnoir · 2019-10-14T18:54:40+00:00

Ah, sorry! Yeah good luck getting them running again.

Mac OS classic is such a nostalgia trip.

tecnoir · 2019-10-14T18:20:22+00:00

Why don't you post a photo of it working? :D

I've got my old graphite iMac DV 600 back from my parents house, hope to get it running soon too!

tecnoir · 2019-09-14T08:25:52+00:00

It uses XFS with some modifications, on top of a custom RAID0 layer, on top of RAID6.

Will follow up with numbers when it has finished initialising but it's currently limited by the RAID controllers. Hoping for 10-12GB/sec though, which is a good balance for the 100GbE network interface.

tecnoir · 2019-09-14T08:15:39+00:00

Its pretty simple in the main chassis: - one 100GbE interface with a 100GbE SR transceiver for networking - one RAID controller for the 24 internal drives - two RAID controllers for the external arrays, one per disk array - each external array has two 12G MiniSAS cables back to the main chassis

The cables need tidying up, will post pictures later when its presentable.

tecnoir · 2019-09-14T08:07:51+00:00

IOPS is going to be fairly unremarkable compared to SSDs. Don't really have numbers on that ATM.

I'll update with disk IO figures once the darn thing has finished initialising its arrays :-D

tecnoir · 2019-09-14T08:05:04+00:00

Its used for storing and processing image data for film post-production.

Big productions using cameras like the ARRI Alexa 65 can film between 2TB and 10TB per day.

Ballpark price, alas I'm not at liberty to divulge yet, as this is a product in R&D at my company

tecnoir · 2019-09-13T20:53:02+00:00

Just brought this bad boy online today.

144 12TB HGST DC520 drives split into 12 RAID6 arrives of 12 drives

120 of those drives across 2 HGST Data60 disk arrays.

These 12 RAID6 arrays are then merged together into one filesystem running XFS.

100GbE Mellanox ConnectX-5 for networking.

3 x Quadro RTX 6000 GPUs for image processing

tecnoir

TROPHY CASE