Premiere Pro CS6 & SAN Storage

[Alex Gerulaitis]

A few of my clients use shared storage with Premiere Pro.

It’s generally recommended to keep temp files (scratch, cache) on the fastest storage available – both in terms of latencies and transfer rates. Have you benched your SAN storage for latencies (IOPS) and transfer rates? If it’s faster than your local storage, then you could keep all there, provided those temp files aren’t being written to by someone else at the same time.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Joseph W. bourke]

Ryan –

I have no experience with Xsan, but here’s a pretty good dialogue going on at Adobe regarding it:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/872258

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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[Walter Biscardi]

Been working with our Small Tree Communications SAN for almost a year now. We follow Richard Harrington’s guidelines for setting up all our scratch discs and files, etc…. Works brilliantly across 6 workstations. An Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro is the handbook every editor should have.

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “but here’s a pretty good dialogue going on at Adobe regarding it:”

“going on” – that thread is 2 years old! 😉 You might say a dialogue happened! LOL! But there is some good info in there.

Ryan, we currently run a fibre backed XSAN environment with 6 client stations hooked in. I’ve had no problems working in PPro CS5.5 or CS6 on the XSAN (besides the usual PITAs of permissions and what not that come along with XSAN territory). PPro just seems the volume listed and you can browse and pull in files just like on any other internal or external attached drive. Depending on the speed of your XSAN and the type of footage you intend to playback is really where the hiccups can happen.

We are moving to a DDP storage server ( https://www.dynamicdrivepool.com ) this summer which runs over 10GigE iSCSI ethernet (just a basic Cat5e or Cat6 cable). So we’ll see how that migration goes. We’ll be disassembling and tearing down our XSAN infrastructure this summer after using it in some form for about 7 years!

Ryan Holmes
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