• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Unity storage for FCP

  Posted by Douglas Ryan on March 17, 2011 at 7:31 pm

  Hey,

  We are primarily an Avid facility but we also have 3 FCP bays. All with FCP 7 and Kona 3 cards on Mac.

  We also are a Unity 5.0 shared storage with a 14 seat license and fiber connections.

  We recently added additional storage with Archion and in anticipation of adding our FCP bays to Unity we partitioned 6TB just for use by the FCP bays.

  So now we’re hooking up or FCP bays to the Unity.

  My question is…

  What should I be prepared for.
  What should I look out for
  Any advise? Clues? Tips?
  Any resources you could point me in the direction of?

  Any words of wisdom would be appreciated and welcome.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Doug Ryan
  Stun Creative

  Michael Kammes replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Kammes

  March 18, 2011 at 2:29 pm

  Lots of discussion on this in the SAN Forum.

  In a nutshell, download the README for the latest rev of Unity. It spells out the issues with FCP on Unity. It will work, but don’t mix allocation groups, and expect a 10-35% throughput hit with FCP clients, and of course, no project sharing.

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