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FCP and SAN
We’re a large church in suburban Kansas City and have been using FCP for some time. It’s budget season again, and we’re looking at a couple of things. One is adding an edit bay, the other is a DAM system.
In terms of shared storage, we’ve heard from many sources (including our Apple vendor) that FCP and xSAN don’t play nice together.
What SAN solutions work well with FCP? is iSCSI even an option?
on the DAM side, what works well with FCP, since FCS is still seemingly in perpetual vaporware mode?
Thanks!
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We’ve been using FCP and XSAN for a few years now and haven’t really had any problems to speak. We churn out HD, HDV, and LoDef on a regular basis and it has run like a charm
Tim
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“In terms of shared storage, we’ve heard from many sources (including our Apple vendor) that FCP and xSAN don’t play nice together. ”
On that basis of duff information, I’d never go back to that vendor ever again.
Peter
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Sorry mate, bad info. I worked at a company that has a good 40 edit stations, and another 60 macs, ALL connected to an XSAN on several XServes, and they crank out a good four to six broadcast shows a week.
It works.
Shane
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Good to hear some positive reports from the field. The main complaint we’d heard was issues with dropped frames.
With that in mind, then, how does FCP perform in an iSCSI environment?
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Dear Mr. Ento,
I’m sure the Apple folks reading these boards would love to know the name of their “reseller” who’s doing a “less than effective” job of promoting their product. Care to post it?
Our experience with X-SAN has also been quite positive. Over the past three years we’ve run two separate X-SAN’s sharing nearly 50 Terrabytes of storage. We’ve used many different resolutions: Off-line RT, DV, IMX50, DVCPro 50, and DVCPro HD. Dropped frames are primariy a bandwidth issue that comes from a poorly thought out or badly engineered system. If you have enough “spindles” to handle your workflow you’ll be happy. However, if you “cheap out” and try to feed too many streams off of too small of a storage pool, you will drop frames.
Bottom line. Do you own research and don’t rely on this reseller. You have to wonder what competing product he’s pushing to speak that way about X-SAN. Having said that, there are other SAN solutions out there that require much less tech knowledge or ongoing admin attention than X-SAN. Perhaps they’re a better choice for you.
Mark
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