South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday January 3, 2006 @02:39PM from the dehydrated-apples dept.

Lam1969 writes "Computerworld reports that South Park producers are turning away from digital linear tape and direct-attached disk storage to a linear tape open setup complimented by Xserve RAID disk arrays. The show's creators never thought South Park would last nine seasons, so a storage hardware upgrade was necessary. J.J. Franzen, technology supervisor at South Park Studios in Los Angeles, says he chose Apple hardware based on a "gut" feeling. From the article: 'While South Park may appear technologically amateurish with its character cutouts, over the past nine seasons the cartoon series has added a great deal of storage-consuming detail, including backgrounds and crowd shots that can take up to 100MB of memory each.'"

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Re:Why? by Eightyford · 2006-01-03 14:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

" Why is this news? who care what Southpark chose for storage?"

My guess? No one does.

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Lots of XServe jobs out there.... by ellisDtrails · 2006-01-03 15:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

XServe Jobs on GetTheJob.com

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Re:My gut feeling tells me that... by lysergic.acid · 2006-01-03 16:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But it cost me my karma. =(
Re:15TB of Xserve RAID storage? What about 200TB? by Wisgary · 2006-01-03 20:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yeah it has a pretty nice view of the world.
Re:Why? by Weh · 2006-01-04 00:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

yeah really, southpark hasn't been funny for a while now, really looks like the creators are running out of inspiration or are losing touch with the real world because of their new found wealth?