• Avid Media Composer

  Avid Unity vs Samba

  Posted by João Santos on July 27, 2012 at 6:52 pm

  I have a Unity 5.1.3 Server at work. I think is too slow for the hardware the system have. For example my samba server (for internet file sharing) have only one 2 TB Seagate drive 7200 rpm 64 mb cache. I can get around 95 mb/s Write and 74 mb/s Read.
  On Unity copying a file is around 25 mb/s ?!?!?. From a HP editor workstation.

  My network:
  1 Unity 5.1.3
  1 Router Gigabit supplied by avid i can’t remember the brand/model)
  1 Debian 6 64 bit Samba 3.6.6
  15 HP wx4600 workstations Avid 5.5 (can’t upgrade to 6 because unity, that is 2 years old…)

  My Testing for Unity:

  Make a hardware RAID 5 (with 16 drives of unity)
  Install Debian 6 64bit with Samba 3.6.6
  Debian on RAID1
  And make a folder for each editor like Eugeny Korkhin have told us about.
  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/197/858470

  Can i have more performance from unity hardware?
  Or this no make any sense and no worth trying?

  Thanks

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  Best Regards
  João Santos
  Portugal

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