Is Gig-E too slow for FCPX shared storage?

[Steve Manella]

does anyone have experience with volume level SAN
management using SanMP or Fibrejet?

curious about workflow here.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Volume based SANs don’t allow SAN Locations, and each volume with read/write will have directories, just like an external hard drive, at root level.

Everyone can read media from other volumes, but you won’t be able to load Projects/Events from read only volumes on other machines.

There’s also the option of keeping events/projects on a local drive and all media on the SAN.

Either way, it’s a lot more manual work than SAN Locations can provide.

Jeremy

[Steve Manella]

projects could be located on a NAS share?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Using sparse bundles if you want to, sure.

Sparse bundles offer some advantages, but they are also a bit of a hack in that they weren’t really designed with editing in mind.

People use them with success, for some reason they make me feel funny like I don’t trust them, but maybe that’s just me.