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South Park Turns to Xserve for Storage Upgrade

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Why? by TheUnknownOne · · Score: -1, Troll

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

  2. No one cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Stop posting this shit already, no one cares at all. Why do you think anyone does? Clearly there are no posts in this topic since no one cares.

  3. Throwing money away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    so they choose Apple for storage when Apple dont even manufacture hard drives
    perhaps Ford should choose Starbucks for their new alternator system, or consult with Nike on the dashboard config

    surely if you want specialist storage you go to a specialist storage company not a retail/consumer company ?

  4. CONSUME My Balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP

  5. Apples hardware? by Rickler · · Score: -1, Troll

    I had no idea Apple made hard drives. Oh that's right, they don't; Apple only makes software and sells it's OS bundled with X-brand hardware. Hardware which Apple clearly does not make; Apple is merely a middle man who puts the pieces together like a monkey could then hikes up the price 10 fold.

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  6. freebff by Sfing_ter · · Score: -1, Troll

    So instead of using decent lowcost hardware and running freebsd, they went with the gui clone?
    John Goodman makes a great Daemon... does Steve Jobs plays Saddam?

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  7. Re:Interview with JJ Franzen by whatever3003 · · Score: 0, Troll
    S: It took me a day or two to lay down the basic architecture, the design of it, and then it was a few weeks of hacking. Its about 10 to 15 thousand lines of code.
    JJ: Its all in PERL script, so its pretty straightforward.


    As a Python guy this sort of thing makes me laugh ;)

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