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KONA LS/LSe Installation and Operation Manual — System Requirements
Minimum and
Recommended
System and
Software
Requirements
The following table outlines the system hardware and software needed.
Understanding
Disk Storage
Methods
The KONA LS card, an Apple Power Mac, and Final Cut Pro, together offer an
unprecedented level of features and performance for all Video/Audio production
applications. However, to ensure performance and quality, the disk storage system
used with the Apple Power Mac must be able to meet the demands of storing realtime
uncompressed media. At the very minimum, the disk storage system must be able to
provide and maintain a consistent 50 MB/s transfer rate from the Power Mac to disk
(read/write). There are a variety of system configurations and peripherals that can
provide this level of performance. Possible system configurations are listed following:
Item Minimum Recommended
Macintosh
Operating System
OS X, version 10.4,
QuickTime 7
OS X latest release.
QuickTime 7 or
Latest
Editing/Production
Software Suite
Final Cut Pro 5 Final Cut Pro Studio
Macintosh Model KONA LS
Minimum:
Power Mac G4, 800
MHz with
Minimum 512 MB
RAM
Model KONA LSe
Minimum:
Power Mac G5 (dual)
PCI-Express
2GHz with
1GB or more RAM
Model KONA LS
Recommended:
Power Mac G5
(dual) with
1GB or more RAM
Model KONA LSe
Recommended:
Power Mac G5
PCI-Express
(dual) 2.3 GHz or
Quad 2.5GHz with
1GB or more RAM
Internal Storage (inside Mac)
For DV only; uncompressed
SD requires external RAID.
SATA (1 internal HD) SATA (2 internal
HDs RAIDed)
RAID Interface Fibre Channel or
SCSI
Fibre Channel or
SCSI
Disk Storage
Note: see Storage Methods
topic that follows later in this
Chapter
4 SCSI Hard Drives
External RAID
Apple Xserve RAID