SAN Advice/Recommedations

[Bob Zelin]

Justin –
I have tracked you down, and will torment you tomorrow. I have prices for you on a 6 seat 10Gig ethernet system.

Bob Zelin

[Steve Modica]

[Nate Cooper] “Same with small tree, Small Tree is awesome hardware, that I personally incorporate with Promax ShareMAX just as you incorpoorate it with Maxx Digital Final Share. Traditionally ST components are implemented through VARs to be part of a complete solution.”

Small Tree sells ST RAID and ST Mobile (both part of Granitestor). We have complete solutions.

What’s nice about ours is that you get our network cards and our storage. We have it covered end to end and we understand how the kernel works on all of it since we either write or heavily tweak all the drivers.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Justin –
we have spoken privately the other day. I just wanted you to know, that we just completed tests with 10Gig ethernet gear (not the most ideal setup, by the way – we were using 3 two TB SATA drives inside a MAC Pro stripped RAID0 for this test), and we were ABSOLUTELY ABLE to get 6 ProRes422HQ streams of multiclip to play back without issue in FCP, using 10 Gig ethernet.

When I spoke with you, I said “I never tried it” – well, now I tried it. It works.

10 Gig will accomplish what you want. Just remember, each 10Gig card per MAC Pro is expensive.

Bob Zelin

[Steve Modica]

Hey Bob.. How did you ever get that 10Gb stuff working so fast? I forget 🙂

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Bob Zelin]

not on this forum Steve – only privately.

Bob