Google on hard drive failures

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I seem to recall an article that mentioned that the effects on 
> "Titanic" were rendered using a room/closet full of Peecees (Dell, I 
> think)...  Something about the hardware (running Linux, IIRC) cost 
> less than $50K.  

Not sure about that, but the first Matrix film "bullet time" effects was 
done on FreeBSD and a PC renderfarm.

The third Matrix film used ridiculous amounts of cash with third-party 
effects houses, some of which were put out of business by the endeavor 
(not sure how that works).
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