New super boards coming from ATI/AMD next month, the 5850, first board with DX11. More importantly to video editing it claims to have to OPEN GL 3.1 in hardware as opposed to previous boards where a lot of the OPENGL was in the drivers. It will be interesting to see if this will let the cards be used with Media Composer and fix some of the weird problems I have seen with Boris. Performance is of course a generation ahead of anything out there. Until NVidia catches up and releases there DX11 GPU's this one is the champ. I do plan on getting one to replace my 2900 card, that will add years of life to the QuadFather.

bigrock,

 Thanks for the heads-up on the upcoming new ATI boards.

On another topic, I see from your "Quadfather" pictures that you have two removable drives.  How do you use them?  For media?  or?  Your profile is empty, so could you please explain your work flow?  It could be useful to see how others do media management and have their editing work flow set up.

Internally the QuadFather has 4 drives:

1 - 300 GB Boot and Software Drive

1 - 300 GB Rendering/Temporary Storage Drive

1 - 750 GB Production Drive - all projects are done to this drive

1 - 750 GB Video Capture Drive - all video is captured to this drive and stored here  - enough run for about 60 tapes at a time.

The external removable drives are used for nightly backups using Norton Ghost which has proven itself reliable over 10 years or more:

1 - 500 GB Drive backs up the boot drive and the rendering/temporary drive

1 - 1500 GB Drive backs up the Production and Video Capture Drives.

When I go out of town or something like that I take both removable backup drives out, put them in static bags, and then a lead lined soft case and they come with me. That way all the data is protected. PC's are cheap, but the Data they hold is priceless. Try and explain to your customers you lost all their data and see how much more business you get from them. If you do this for living a backup strategy is very important.

Thanks for the explanation, bigrock.  That sounds like a good, safe way to handle your "data".