G-tech GSPEED Q, opinions?

[Jon Schilling]

Hey Ruben,

You wouldn’t be able to share that product in the way in which you described. The best you could hope for is to “sneaker net” the drive between the 2 machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

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[Ruben Neto]

HI Jonathan,

Thanks for the suggestions. Though, would it be any different if the GSPEED Q raid was connected to a separate computer through e-sat so this computer would function as a server and then the media shared through Ethernet to the other 2 Macpro stations?

[Bob Zelin]

unfortunately, there is no “cheap” shared storage solution.

Bob Zelin

[Jon Schilling]

Ruben,

I think what Bob Zelin was implying is that there is no “cheap” way to share….. with appreciable speed.

Could you do what you suggested? YES, share data, but you wouldn’t be able to edit in real-time.

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[Luis Rodriguez]

Hi Ruben,
Connecting your GSpeed Q to a separate computer will allow you to share the storage between multiple systems. Will you have the ability to “edit” from that storage in real-time? Probably not, but this will depend on the codec/format. If that is the intention, you will need a bigger pipe (SAS, FC, Thunderbolt) going to the server as well as adding NICs to your server and clients for bandwidth, a decent managed switch, etc.

You can see where Bob is coming from regarding the cost of implementing a shared “editing” storage solution.

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[Ruben Neto]

Fair enough, so what would be the suitable solution for our needs?- two stations mostly editing EXcam footage 35/mb?

[Matt Clifton]

Roughly how much footage do you have? If you have drive bays free internally, the cheapest solution may well be to get some new, large, internal drives for each MP (and RAID-0 them, PROVIDED THAT you have a backup copy), clone the media to both sets, and run that way. If you’re wanting ultimately to exchange sequences, I’d name the RAID sets identically.

If not, two cloned sets of external drives, again named identically.

The only shared storage for FCP I know of involves Fibre Channel or a server with bonded ethernet (Small Tree’s GraniteStor). Maybe worth calling Small Tree for a quote: 866 782 4622

Matt

Matt Clifton
Mac Consultant
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[Ruben Neto]

Great, thank you so much.
I’ve already contacted some solutions companies to give me a hand with this.

Thanks