Connecting Edit Suites

[Walter Biscardi]

[Warren Eig] “I’m using 10GBit ethernet for shared storage with MacPros and Atto’s 10GBit cards, courtesy of Mr. Zelin. How are you adding iMacs? Are they just Gbit ethernet?”

Small Tree ThunderNet boxes with 10gig cards and then connect to Thunderbolt. Onboard iMac Ethernet port is very unreliable for editing. We’re also running the new Titanium series from Small Tree and geez, the dang thing is fast…..

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Mullins]

Thanks again for all the advice, I’m looking to complete my setup later in the year so I’ll post again to let people know how in went, in case my experience is of any use to anyone else! Cheers!

[Tim Kolb]

The only item I’d add is to manage your metadata writing accordingly. If you are using a shared media folder on a “server” then you don’t want all the client machines writing metadata “next to originals”.

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[Jamie Pickell]

Thank you Walter, that is good news indeed!

Cheers,
Jamie Pickell