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shared storage setup?
I’m an operation director at a campus TV station, and for my last big project before i graduate, i want to try to solve our storage problem as best as i can. i’ve been considering a san storage system, xserve raids, etc. i was hoping to find some suggestions on what might be a good solution and how we might keep costs down on a project like this.
here’s some background on our production workflow-
we have about 12+ shows that turn in 15 minute original episodes every two weeks (we still gotta keep up with class :). each show shoots on panasonic dvx100b’s and edits in fcp. we air our content on a 360 systems image server 2000 (my big project from last year), but we keep DV quicktimes on a hard drive for archival and rerun purposes. we also do special programming, air live events, produce dvd’s, etc.right now we have 3 mac towers (2 g5s and 1 mac pro) to edit on. each show gets an external 250GB OWC hard drive for the year, and all three computers also have a 500GB secondary internal drive, so we work off that.
it’s worked so far, but each year space gets tighter and tighter. i also dread the day when the students break them or the drives fail etc. (we teach them how to take care of their drives, but they are students, so they dont always do the best job at caring for equipment). the moving of drives from one computer to another, or a particular person being stuck on one computer because he used the internal drive is also a problem.
i’ve done a little research on san systems, and the fact that it is a server based storage system that every computer could have access to is fantastic, and just might solve our problems, plus the expandability of the server itself if we start running low on space again. i was hoping to get some feedback on this idea based on our situation. will this work, is it just freakishly expensive, is there a way to keep the cost relatively low ($15,000 or less for the whole kit and kaboodle), etc.?
thanks for the info!
-aaron
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Take a gander at EditShare.
Shane
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what does this start at price wise?
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Why not ask them. I saw them at IBC, and $15,000 seemed to get a decent system. FIne for DV anyway. But you gotta ask them for details. I ain’t their sales guy.
Shane
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thanks so much!!!!
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hi there
my 5c on this is that no matter how big your drives, they will fill up, and there is little difference between a full big drive and a full smaller drive! – except that a full big drive is much harder to back up.and thats what i would suggest, especially with students – spend a little less on storage size and fork out for a good backup system, tapes, or even hot swappable hard drives.
mark.
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Let me say first that shared storage is a wonderful thing…. BUT, if you have a very limited budget, this will surely kill it.
There are several good options to choose from. EditShare, Apple’s X-RAID, Facilis TerraBlock, and ProMax now has a semi-shared storage system. But you’ll have to expect the prices to start at about $15,000 and go upwards of $50,000 and more.
We use the Facilis TerraBlock which is a rock solid, very stable shared storage system that is on the affordable side of shared storage. About 6 TB will run you around $20,000 for the basic system. We have three Macs connected and one network server connected and total cost including installation was about $32,000.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Are these all DV programs?
why not just get a gigabit ported lanshare device?
Like the one made by iomega.simultaneous file access (to the same file) may not
work, but every other aspect would and at a fraction
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yes, this is all regular dv. for the iomega, is this what you were talking about, and if so, will it work with fcp? we wouldn’t need to access the same files at the same time, we just need to be able to access them from any computer, and for each computer to be able to access different files at the same time, while keeping the throughput high enough for realtime editing.
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Thats the one.
For DV Footage it should work fine.
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There’s fibrejet too if you have the budget for a fibre system:
-Simmie
1 MacPro – Kona 3
2 G5 – Kona LH
2 G4s – Cinewave
xbox360, Wii, PSP, PS2
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