Setting up an xSAN for FCPX for a small studio

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Juan Salvo] “I suppose that even though SAN locations might be an issue with a network share, you could still be able to use media stored on the network, no? And also maybe setup disk images that lived on the network to put your projects on the NAS?”

With a NAS, you have to use Sparse Disk Images.

In my personal opinion and it’s just an opinion, that’s a weird way to work and spend your money.

Small Tree does support it. Small Tree is an awesome company, I am sure they aren’t steering people in the wrong direction.

https://www.small-tree.com/v/vspfiles/files/pdfs/NoMiracleToUsingFinalCutProX.pdf

https://blogs.creativecow.net/Steve-Modica/FCPX

It’s a very clever solution.

If NAS is the way you want to go, then Small Tree is a great place to start.

There have been reports on this forum that disk images hamper performance.

To have seven computers sharing storage, that last thing you want is hampered performance, but perhaps I’m just a ninny.

Plus, SAN Locations are a very decent feature of FCPX that allow great flexibility and control of what project is where right from within FCPX with a lot less Finder work. You are right that SANs are generally more expensive.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Thanks for the StorNext info, Juan.

If you had an all Mac Xsan, and wanted to add another OS, you just buy a StorNext windows license and it’s that easy?

Jeremy

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

maybe an afordable solutions could be https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=15

Give Caspian at SNS a call or fire off an email; we’ve been using their products for a while and are very happy with them and their service.

hope this helps,

Patrice Freymond

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[Juan Salvo]

You buy the license and then there is some setup involved, just like adding any other client… except a bit more work cause it’s on windows.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Juan Salvo] “You buy the license and then there is some setup involved, just like adding any other client… except a bit more work cause it’s on windows.
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Thanks. I was curious as when I was looking in to SANs, it seemed like it was a much bigger deal to have Windows on XSan.

We ended up with metaSAN and have been very pleased so far. Adding clients/licenses is easy, storage is easy.

[Loren Risker]

I’m the sysadmin for our xsan, and it’s a pain in the ass. It requires expensive hardware, a dedicated ehternet network in addition to your other network, and a fibre channel network. You’ll have to pay a consultant at $150-$200 an hour at some point to fix something. It’s great if you need lots of storage, redundancy, and blazing speed, but if you just need 2 of those things I second looking into a NAS or other solution.

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