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LaCie Gigabit Server Setup? NEED HELP ASAP!
Has anybody purchased a LaCie Gigabite (2 Terabyte) server in the past couple of weeks and successfully set it up in a small (meaning 2 machines!) LAN?
We recently bought one of these at my office and so far have only been able to access the server, but not achieve gigabyte (1000Mbps) transfer speeds to be able to work with our 10-bit uncompressed video directly from the server…
Can anybody relate to this? What are some of the work-arounds that you might have implemented? Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
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[Etionee] “We recently bought one of these at my office and so far have only been able to access the server, but not achieve gigabyte (1000Mbps) transfer speeds to be able to work with our 10-bit uncompressed video directly from the server…”
You’re trying to do this with a LAN server and not a Fibre Channel server? I’ve never heard of this working for uncompressed video. Fibre Channel is the only shared storage I’ve heard of that supports uncompressed video production.
This server appears to be for businesses to share files, NOT for sustained uncompressed video playback. You need a Ciprico, Med
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I am using the Buffalo Terrastation as a video server in the same way you are expecting the Lacie to work, However, that is to feed DV codec streams to a video playback system synced to our two audio suites. I also use it to back up media and project files from FCP but not to stream uncompressed video. I don’t think you will be able to sustain two streams of uncompressed over giganet unless the drive supports dual giganet connection and also jumbo frames. You are also going to need a sophisticated gigabit switch that can give data priority so that other network chatter doesn’t take bandwidth.
A fibre channel raid server is a better bet for uncompressed.
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