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KONA 3G Installation and Operation Manual — System Requirements

System Requirements

AJA Video recommends that your system meet minimum hardware and software requirements

to achieve a satisfactory level of performance when operating it. Here, we provide minimum

and recommended requirements and then discuss disk storage issues that should be

understood for proper system configuration.

Minimum and

Recommended

System and

Software

Requirements

The following table outlines the system hardware and software needed.

Understanding Disk

Storage Methods

The KONA 3G card, an Apple MacPro, and Final Cut Pro, together offer an unprecedented level of

features and performance for audio/video post production applications. However, to ensure

performance and quality, the disk storage system used with the Apple computer must be able

to meet the demands of the media.

For uncompressed SD, AJA recommends that at a minimum, the disk storage system must be

able to provide and maintain a consistent 50 MB/sec transfer rate from the Apple computer to

disk (read/write). There are a variety of system configurations and peripherals that can provide

this level of performance.

For uncompressed single link HD, AJA recommends that at a minimum, the disk storage system

must be able to provide and maintain a consistent 200 MB/sec transfer rate from the Apple

computer to disk (read/write). There are a variety of system configurations and peripherals that

can provide this level of performance.

For uncompressed dual link HD and 2K, AJA recommends that at a minimum, the disk storage

system must be able to provide and maintain in excess of 300 MB/sec transfer rate from the

Item Recommended

Recommended KONA driver for

Mac OSX and Final Cut Pro:

Note: always consult the release

notes for the AJA software

version you are running

(included with installer)

FCP 7.0.x - KONA driver version 9.0 (Snow Leopard compatible)

http://www.aja.com/support/konaNEW/kona-3g.php

Macintosh Tower:

Recommended KONA 3G System: Apple Mac Pro, 2GHz or better,

4GB of ram or greater for uncompressed HD. Use of a Fibre

Channel, SCSI, SAS or other high bandwidth disk array for

uncompressed SD/HD/2K storage.

Minimum KONA 3G System: MacPro with PCI-Express, 2GHz with

2GB RAM minimum for uncompressed SD or 4GB RAM for

uncompressed HD. Ensure your Macintosh has a PCI-Express slot

available for KONA 3G card. Use a Fibre Channel or SCSI external

RAID for uncompressed SD/HD storage.

Slot Placement: Visit our website and view this regularly updated

slot placement document:

http://www.aja.com/support/kona/kona-system-

configuration.php

Internal Storage (SATA inside

Mac):

Best suited for compressed SD/HD formats only

External Storage:

Note: see Storage Methods topic

that follows later in this Chapter

Ideally a RAID configuration with Fibre Channel or SCSI connection

to the Mac via qualified host bus adapter

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