Installation guide

TARGA 3000 Configuration Cookbook
Unit Weight: 19.7 lbs. 9.0 kg
Height: 11-1/2" (292mm) Width: 7-3/4" (197mm)
Depth: 12-1/2" (318mm)
8.6 Certified Hard Drives (JBOD applications)
The following list of drives have been tested by Pinnacle Systems Certification process and are proven to perform well
with Targa 3000 under Premiere 5.1c and 6.0 environment. With the exception of U2W drives, when 8 of the same
units are striped with a 64 bit enabled U160 SCSI interface, under optimal cabling (namely SCSI connection and
termination), cooling condition and driver configuration, end users can obtain 3 YUV streams real time playback under
Premiere environment for at least 25% of physical drive surface.
BRAND MODEL CAPACITY INTERFACE
IBM DRVS-09 9.1 GB U2W
IBM DMVS-09D 9.1GB SCA-2 U2W
IBM DDYS-T18350 18.35 GB SCA-2 U160
IBM DDYS-T36950 36.7GB SCA-2 U160
QUANTUM ATLAS 10K II 9.1 9.1 GB U160
QUANTUM ATLAS 10K II 18.2 18.2 GB U160
QUANTUM ATLAS 10K III 18.4 GB U160
QUANTUM ATLAS V 36.4 GB U160
SEAGATE ST39102LW 9.1GB U2W
SEAGATE ST39205LW 9.1GB U160
SEAGATE ST39204LW 9.1GB U160
SEAGATE ST318404LC 18.4GB SCA-2 U160
SEAGATE ST318404LW 18.4GB U160
SEAGATE ST318452LC 18.4GB SCA-2 U160
SEAGATE ST318452LW 18.4GB U160
SEAGATE ST318451LW 18.4GB U160
SEAGATE ST336705LW 36.7GB U160
SEAGATE ST336752LW 36.7GB U160
SEAGATE ST336704LW 36.7GB U160
Note : we have tested 72GB drive sizes which perform well overall and but in certain cases we have seen
random drops in performance in the 72GB drive sizes. The system may not be able to sustain 3 streams for
long durations.
8.7 System Boot Drives
Use the fastest system drive you can install in your system, from SCSI Ultra3 to ATA UDMA 66 (UltraDMA)
EIDE drives. We recommend drives sizes of 9 GB or higher. Generally, the SCSI drive alternative will
provide faster performance due to command queuing, but 66MHz UltraDMA drives are adequate. Be sure to
apply the latest UltraDMA driver from the motherboard manufacturer, as Windows NT 4.0 does not natively
support UltraDMA.
8.8 Striping
We recommend that you use NT striping to configure the AV disk array. RAID controllers are not required. It
is important that all the drives in the stripe are the same make, model and firmware revision (note this latter,
problems can arise with apparently similar disks that have different firmware revisions).