Stability is impeccable. Video encoding approaches 20x
with NVidia CUDA support. and hour of RAW DV encodes
in minutes instead of hours. I have 3 Seagate 2TB internal
drives -- not raid, just JBOD.

Just Back up Once Daily? I back up everything every two weeks or so to a
bootable drive. Critical stuff is backed up to a Zip every time a major
change is made.


You might think this thing would howl like a microwave oven,
but that's not the case. [Ouch!] In fact, it's quiet. Everything is
installed in an Antec server case with redundant 650W PSUs.

Some time ago I switched from roller-bearing to ball-bearing fans. Big
difference.