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Network Storage – EditShare, Facilis, others!
Hi All
We are seeking options and opinions on network storage, something that will allow us to share media and have some raid protection.
We are a medium/smaller sized edit facility. We have 4 edit suites and 1 After Effects station. We are primarily Mac based, but also have PCs that sometimes digitize material and we have 2 PCs that do all of our video encoding. So, about 5 Mac seats, 3 PC seats. We don’t have to work on the same project file simultaneously, but will use the same media at times.
We do some DVCProHD stuff and a lot of PhotoJPEG SD stuff. We will have a need for limited uncompressed HD for our After Effects seat, but it doesn’t have to stream in real-time all day, maybe long enough to see an effect worked out OK.
We are growing like gangbusters here but don’t want to spend all our cash to get this. We are OK with spending something in the range of $30k, but want this device to be able to grow with us. After looking at the EditShare, we were considering getting the larger chassis but not populating it with all the drives at this point. As we grow, we can toss more drives in and get more space.
So, questions!
1) What are you using? Is it reliable?2) Gigabit Ethernet vs Fibre – any real world horror stories or yay it saved the day scenarios?
3) Have you had PCs and Macs using this device OK?
Thanks for any thoughts! This is a big jump we want to take, but it will take a fair amount of effort to install, learn about and so on so we don’t want to buy 1 thing and return it for something else.
DonDon Poe
Post Production Guru
People Productions
Intelligently Integrated Media
1737 15th St Suite 200
Boulder, CO 80302
303-449-6086
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9 Replies
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Don,
Here’s a good place to start: https://www.apple.com/xsan/
Apple’s X-SAN sounds like a candidate for what you want… a system that you can grow with.
Sure there are much cheaper alternatives, but they do come with “hard” limitations on number of ports, connectivity, etc.
My best advice is to find a Value added reseller in your area who can demo this stuff for you.
Good luck.
Mark
PS, there’s a “x-SAN” board on the cow, as well as a plain vanilla “san” board too.
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Editshare is your best bet
Have seen it in other facilites and blown away by the price of it compared to a complete xsan system
You can mount windows and mac clients onto the system and have unlimited clients.
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I’ve seen the avid version (lanshare) one of our tenants has one.
It connects over 2gb fibrechannel though and its loud as hell, sounding like a hive of angry bees cranked up over a theatre sound system lol.Does the edit share connect over fibre?
I know it does over 10ge.Anyone know the rough cost of the base model?
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$19,000 for roughly a 6 tb model
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You should look at MetaSan and ADTX fibre channel storage. It’s quick, cheap and supports mac and pc.
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Facilisis is my choice
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$ 19,000 seems a bit high.
It looks like they are charging a handsome sum for the software itself though.
I was hoping it would be somewhere around 10-13 at most.
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[mody] “Facilisis is my choice”
google is showing nothing about that. do you have a website for them?
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https://www.facilis2.com/ is the site for Facilis
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