SAN Network Question

[Ryan Stoutenborough]

Hi Larry,

I have a solution for you and it will allow all 7 Premiere Pro workstations to connect with or without a switch. All workstations edit directly from the drives (no more push pull!) You can even throw fibrechannel or 10GbE in the box later on if your needs change. Works with Mac and PC.

I also have a software only solution if you want to roll-your-own.

Give me a shout and we can talk workflow, performance & pricing. I Look forward to hearing from you.

Phone# 877-537-2094

Ryan Stoutenborough
Studio Network Solutions
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com

[Bob Zelin]

Studio Network Solutions will be an excellent solution for you, and your 7 Win PC’s. Larry, please let me know on this forum the cost of the solution they offer you. Studio Network Solutions is a great company.

Bob Zelin

[Larry Zapotocky]

Will do, thanks for your help.

[Chris Blair]

I don’t doubt Bob’s recommendation or that SNS is a good solution too… but I can tell you from experience that Apace is also a great solution for GB shared video storage. We run one of their vStor systems with 4 edit seats and it’s literally been running non-stop for 2 and half years without a second of downtime and about 30 minutes (total) of administration time from me….and that was to resize the volumes a couple of times (which you can do “on the fly”) and to routinely check the drives status. We get multi-channel real-time playback of SD video and a few channels of real-time compressed HD playback(cineform codec). It will handle uncompressed SD too but only a few channels in real-time.

Their customer support is also the best I’ve ever experienced in 25 years in this business. Our reseller was IEEE in California, who was also excellent. Dennis Bress is the contact there.

https://www.ieei.com/videostorage1/vstor.shtml

It’s worth it to compare solutions to make sure you’re getting what you need. The engineers at Apace also understand video better than anyone else I spoke with while I was researching systems back in 2008.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
http://www.videomi.com
Read our blog http://www.videomi.com/blog

[Larry Zapotocky]

Chris,

Thanks for the info. It sounds like that has been a very reliable solution. I will be calling them to review their options.

Thanks!
Larry

[Steve Modica]

SNS is big into iSCSI and I know they know those target stacks well (as well as their iSCSI initiator).

The thing about any of those solutions is that you get a linux black box. When you want to upgrade, you need to throw that away. I like to have people use a Mac as the server. When they upgrade, it moves to someone’s desk. It’s very economical. Less landfill etc.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Caspian Brand]

Steve, I totally get your point about re-purposing a Mac Tower/Server to someone’s desk, but I would have to respectfully disagree about Linux black boxes just going into a landfill vs. getting an upgrade or being reused…some of the processing power built into these servers and their capacity for storage make them just as re-purposeable, not for someone’s desk (as they fit so nicely in a rack), and many of the components in the servers are upgradeable as well, I/O, Controllers, Storage, CPUs, RAM…I’ve personally gotten far more extended life out of Black Box PC parts for various server purposes thanks to Windows and Linux than I have from some equivalently aged Macs…just sayin…an older computer is as an older computer does…just depends on what and where your needs are…

-Caspian

Product Specialist
Studio Network Solutions