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Sharing a thunderbolt raid drive between two new Mac Pros
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I have been seriously curious about this as well! Glad you are on to this. You will be giving us all the gift of knowledge this Christmas once you try this out! Can’t wait. By the way, happy holidays everyone!
Errol X. Lazare
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Yes it is possible without san setup as this forum conversation states
https://reduser.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-38307.html
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[topher rehpot] “Yes it is possible without san setup as this forum conversation states
https://reduser.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-38307.html“
Do you mean this post?
[Brandon Kraemer] “We have been able to stream M_proxies off of a Promise RAID, served by a X Serve in a NAS configuration via gigabit ethernet for cutting to multiple workstations. This doesn’t require FCServer or a SAN setup. We don’t rely on this, typically cut with DAS (direct attached) RAIDS, but it can be done.”
Afraid it’s a whole different animal vs. what is being discussed here. Any DAS or SAN can be “shared” using a NAS front end, but this entirely changes performance expectations.
The thread discusses whether a TB storage box can be shared among multiple TB-equipped Macs at full TB speeds without the added costs and complexities of using a NAS front end or SAN software.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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Right. Without IP involved, I don’t see how this works with two computers taking control of a single HFS+ file system.
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So… Do we have a status update on this?
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I am sorry to say that we are on a spending freeze until July 1 (which will be our first quarter of the fiscal year). Even then with budget cuts we may only be able to upgrade only if our existing equipment dies on us.
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of course, Chris is correct as always. You just can’t plug in two computers to a single drive without something managing the drive. In the simplest form, you have simple NAS products like QNAP, Drobo, Synology, Netgear, etc. Or you can use an existing computer as the “server”, like a Mac Mini which connects to our drive array. But you just can’t take a drive (like a Promise Thunderbolt array) and plug in
two computers to it, and expect to have shared storage.It is now April 2014. Since this original offer, we have tested Thunderbolt Networking with the new Mac Pro, and it is very inconsistent with speeds, and does not work. The simplest 1GbE network offers more reliable results than a Thunderbolt network – even using the new 2013 Mac Pro.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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[Bob Zelin] ” Since this original offer, we have tested Thunderbolt Networking with the new Mac Pro, and it is very inconsistent with speeds, and does not work. The simplest 1GbE network offers more reliable results than a Thunderbolt network – even using the new 2013 Mac Pro.”
Hey Bob,
According to our engineers at ProMAX, the explanation is: “The issue is using the ‘Thunderbolt bridge’ which is built into Mavericks (any maybe older versions). Because there isn’t a NIC card, all of the processing has to be done in the CPU, which creates inconsistent results over Thunderbolt.”
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.comSales | Integration | Support
David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Hi all,
I’m just now reading this and researching affordable SAN solutions for a tiny shop with three editors. Has anyone found any solution here?
Thanks!
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I was looking into doing this myself but wasn’t sure if it was possible or if it would work well enough. Has anyone tested this successfully?
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