Facilis Terrablock San System Feedback good?

[Mark Maness]

All very good points, guys…

But you know as well as I, tested products are much much better than something that is not. When you’re talking about data and digital video, reliability has to be the most important factor here.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking the Larid solution at all. It sounds like an awesome idea and they could kill that market IF the price was about half of the current asking list price.

We are all about saving money where we can BUT we do work in a field where reliability has to be the most important factor in any equipment purchase – nothing more horrifying than loosing your data when a client is in house or loosing years of work because we cut cost.

All things to consider… The Facilis TerraBlock isn’t cheap, but just price the others out there that are proven.

We work very much like Donato does. It works very well. You can work in segments on different volumes and put it all together at the end or do like we do. We produce weekly 30 minutes shows for a couple of cable networks. So, we have one editor log the footage on a volume, unmount it and pass it to the one editing the show, unmount that and pas it to another for sweetening and out to XDCAM HD disc for mastering. Its a proven workflow that works very well for us. And the TerraBlock allows us to work very efficiently.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Raudonis]

Sean,

You are correct that one could put together the kind of system you’ve outlined for much less than buying a complete solution. I recall years ago that Shane’s “rubber band and popsicle stick” internal RAID was very popular. But I think most people in the market for a small SAN are looking for a simple “plug and play” solution that requires little or no setup and maintenance.

Terrablock is a great product for that customer. Lairdshare may be too. I don’t know. I haven’t seen in out in the market yet.

Your recipe may work in some cases, but it’s not the supported config for an X-SAN system.

Mark

[Bob Flood]

what about this?

https://www.ieei.com/ieeibroadcast/vstor.shtml

considerably cheaper than others. has anyone used or seen it?

it was supposed to be at nab

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Sean Oneil]

[Mark Raudonis] “Terrablock is a great product for that customer. Lairdshare may be too. I don’t know. I haven’t seen in out in the market yet. “

I agree with you completely as far as the Terrablock is concerned.

[Chris Coote]

I will add to those giving the Terrablock a thumbs up.
We bought one of the first systems back a couple of years ago and it worked well,
but it was a little flaky in terms of crashing. We upgraded to the newer version a few months ago and it has been rock solid. We have five Avids and 2 FCP systems hanging off it using a mixture of SD and compressed HD (DNX and Prores) and everyone is playing quite nice together.