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eQ related question
So, after a bancrupcy I (or rather: friends of mine) have this eQ standing in a corner. The support contract is not running and it’s a bit long on its teeth, the lease is still running, and it’s not easy to sell to put it mildly (3 years old, support ran untill May this year), and I am asked to look at it: How to make this piece of equipment mre useable.
So I look at it, and it is indeed very useable for a lot of work, but the RAID is only 2 (or possibly 4) TB, and is connected to the quantel card only. There’s no connection to the SAN the rest of the facility is running from, except from gigabit ethernet.
So I ask:
Why don’t you just pop in a fibre-channel card in the eQ, and use that for ingest and backup. (Right now they have a feature on it waiting for completion, so that’s pretty much the capacity of the thing…)The other reason I want this is for RED ingest.
The eQ has a “rednode”, but for developing of RED files, it’s only usefull for batch and even at that it looks far from optimum. Better then to transcode the DPXs on the Mac side with a Rocket, where the softwareupdates are free, you get immediate access to new SDKs etc etc etc.The answer is:
We don’t know if putting in a fibrechannel card and some RAM, and even a system-mirror backup drive, will break the dongle (or whatever) and render the whole thing unuseable.So there’s my question:
Will it?Going into a new support plan is not an option for them, then they’re more likely to write the whole thing off and move on to a more open-structure platform. In their case: Turnkey is dead….
But I sorta liked the box, if one could just put it to some more practical use.
The best thing would be to add a fibrechannel and some way make it so that one could make windows see the eQ’s RAID and the SAN at the same time, but I guess that’s a long stretch.
Anyhow. Feel free to contact me offlist for suggestions!
gunleikgroven (at) gmail (dot) com
cheers!
Gunleik
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