Trouble Configuring 10GbE Network

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Adam –
if you can setup a robust 1G network, then you can setup a robust 10G network. It is not difficult to learn (or no more difficutl to learn) how to setup a Synology, or QNAP, or other home made system, compared to learning Davinci Resolve, or Adobe Premiere, etc. The only difference here is that most of the readers of Creative Cow are editors, many who are small business owners, who have put the effort out to learn AVID Media Composer, or Adobe Premier, or Maxon Cinema 4D or Adobe After Effects, or Davinci Resolve. And they are involved with production as well for their clients. But they are on tight budgets, and so they would rather DIE than to hire someone that knows how to do this. That is where my condescending comments come from. I assure you that YOU can learn how to do this, no different that you learned FCP 7 or Adobe Premiere, etc. but you are busy, and you (or Jonathan) just say “why can’t I just plug this stuff in, like a firewire drive, and have it just work !”. Well, you can’t, that’s why. All of these systems are stable once they are SET UP correctly. NONE of these systems (except XSAN) require constant administration. So if you A) buy a system, and set it up correctly (which happens when you read all the manuals, suffer thru the installation, and finally “get it”) – then you will have a nice stable system that requires not constant administration, or B) you hire someone to do this for you, and then you have a nice stable system that works day in, and day out, and requires no administration.

Let me tell you something, Adam. I am not a plumber. I had a toilet installed. The flapper failed, and I hired a plumber to change the flapper. So now it’s 3 months later, and it’s making noise, and occationaly not letting me flush. If I screw around with it, the water comes back in the tank, but I am sick of this. Why can’t my toilet work 100% of the time, without having me hire another plumber, which will cost me MORE MONEY when it should have been done right the first time, so I don’t have any of this aggravation ? Same with these 10G networks. You can do it – and it might work – kind of – but if you hire a professional, or buy one of the systems that you see advertised on Creative Cow, from a pro company, you wil have a nice working system, with no aggravation, and you will be happy. But if you say “no, I am going to buy a cheap QNAP/Synology, and set it up myself” – then you might have aggravation. NOW, you can sit there, and tear thru web URL’s trying to find out why things are not working like they should. And you can post on Creative Cow, and say “I just bought this NAS from B&H Photo for 1500 bucks, and it seemed like it was working, but now everything is locking up”. Simple answer – study the manuals and YouTube videos, or HIRE A PROFESSIONAL – and if you cheap out (like I did with the toilet plumber), then you get a running toilet. It flushed, but it pisses you off.

Clear ?

bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Jonathan Loomis]

To echo Bob yes if you can setup a robust 1Gb network than setting up a 10Gb network is not much of a jump. The issue for us in this case – and Bob can attest to this – was the LaCie hardware. The RAID controller was a piece of junk. As DAS the LaCie we used worked ok but over any network 1G or 10G it was awful.

All in all to echo Bob once more you want to invest in solid gear from the get-go. If you know what you’re doing network-wise or find someone who does you should be fine. As soon as we replaced our LaCie with a Thunderraid2 from Maxx Digital our problems disappeared.

– Jonathan