I need to buy a turnkey system of 3 G5s, Xsan, and Xserve…. (gulp…help?)

[Shane Ross]

http://www.promax.com

[Bob Woodhead]

“…money is not much of a problem… ” hmmm….. sounds to me like you need a networking/render node/compositing/editing/effects wizard to go with all that. But I have to warn you – I don’t come cheap! In fact, I think a company car & corporate jet would not be unreasonable.
Oh yeah, like Shane said – promax.com or a competitor, powermax.com

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta Gun fer Hire / http://www.Woodhead.Net
Quantel-Avid-FCP-3D-Crayola
G5 DP 2G, 10.3.4, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 4.5, Aja IO, Huge 320R [raid3]

[Steve Eisen]

Midwest Media Group is also very good at system integration. http://www.mwmg.com

G5 Dual 2.5 160GB System 400GB Media Drive ATI 9800 256MB 6 GB RAM
Dual Gig Quicksilver 1GB RAM 80 GB System drive (3) 250 GB internal media storage
15″ Al Powerbook 1.25 1GB RAM
OS 10.3.8 FCP 4.5, DVDSP 2, QT 6.5, Boris Red 3GL 1.65 TB External Stor

[Anders Haavie]

There is a forum here at the barn for just what you are looking for. We just got 7 people running xsan here in my company, and everything works great. Check out

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/view_posts.php?forumid=180

Anders

[Kevin Monahan]

Where do you live? That would be helpful to know.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Bob Vick]

I 2nd Midwest Media group. Small enough to be affordable but they have enough history to make it all work right the first time. Of course where you live is important. If you just advise, then you could make due with the help here. If you need someone to set the stuff up, and that is the best way, then the companies listed so far are great.

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Bob Vick sr promo guy @ ch3 wwmt tv, kalamazoo, mi

[Shawn Bockoven]

https://www.silverado.cc/fcpug.html

[Matthew Abourezk]

Hi all,
Thanks for your replies… sorry I didn’t respond sooner, somehow I had turned off the email notification….

Anyway, to answer one of your questions, I live in Connecticut, NYC is a 40 minute train ride away.

Thanks again for your feedback, I will start working my way through the links that you provided. Feel free to reply more thoughts, I promise to respond quicker.

Thanks again,
Matt

[Chris Tomberlin]

Mathew,

Also consider the CommandSoft’s Fibrejet. I have almost EXACLTY the setup you are looking to build – three G5s, a gigabit network with a file server, an Xserve Raid, a SanBox fibre switch, and FibreJet instead of Xsan. It would suit your needs perfectly, be much more simple to set up and is faster at most things than Xsan is (though I have not tested Xsan directly, I have tested other SAN software that works the same way. Especially on large projects, Fibbrejet is WAY faster). Cost is about the same. CommandSofts support is great and you can always get someone on the phone or a fast reply to an email. I put all this together myself. CommandSoft will also do some turnkey stuff I think, and they will certainly help you with configuration. Its really not all that difficult.

Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Chris(at)outpostpictures.com

Chris Tomberlin
Editor/Compositor/Owner
OutPost Pictures