Very Basic Shared Storage for FCP

[Eric Hansen]

Hey Ted

Thanks for adding to the collective brain trust here. Interesting to see what’s involved going the Linux route.

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Eric Hansen – https://www.erichansen.tv

[Bob Zelin]

This is a great article. I am very impressed. If there were more people out there like you, I would be unemployed.

I hope Steve Modica sees this, and reads your article. I am sure he will be impressed as well.

I am not sure if you are a young student, but if you are, you have a bright future ahead of you.

Bob Zelin

[Ted Cox]

Bob and Eric,

Thanks for your kind words. It would not have been possible had I not read your great SAN article from several years back, Bob. I’m not a student. I’m fast approaching forty. I work for a small non-profit shop. You can see a sample of our work here: https://vimeo.com/27935302

Sorry it’s taken me so long to share the info. I did want to be sure we’d put the system through it’s paces, and then… well life got the better of me, and I didn’t get the notes into any sort of readable order until just last week.

Ted

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[David Norden]

Hi Ted, impressive work, and documentation.

We have done this for OS X, so you might be interested in our software xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

I would also like to get in touch with you off the list, for a few questions… You will find my mail address on the blog.

Best Regards

David

[Dave Barnard]

XMcore Avid project sharing looks very interesting!

Having used it in production for some years, how does it compare to an Isis or Editshare setup?

[David Norden]

We actually have an Editshare, but its just sitting in a corner…

Anyway, what I will confess is the biggest difference is that when you build your own system, you need to spend more time on maintaining it. We did everything from scratch, meaning, we installed a Small-Tree ethernet card with 6-ports, installed the HBA, currently an ATTO R680, we took a Supermicro JBOD chassi with 45 bays, and installed drives, currently Hitachi 2TB SAS 2.0 drives.

You could make it easier for you by buying a more complete system, such as those from MAXX Digital and others, and just install the software..

The upside is really that we have been able to scale up as our need grows so currently we have three servers, with about 100 TB of storage. Doing that with the Editshare would have bankrupted us..

Otherwise, working with xMcore is very similar to working with Editshare, APART from one thing that we are working on now.. We dont yet have bin-locking, wich you do have in Editshare.

This demands a slightly different approach, where editors work from a folder where their bins are protected and then move that bin to another unprotected folder if they want someone else to be able to work with that bin. Mostly we just open another editors bin and drag-copy the stuff we want to our own bins.

all the best

David

[Ted Cox]

David,

I haven’t looked in detail yet, but it looks like you’ve achieved a level of polish beyond what I put together. Does your product work on FCP and Premier or only on Avid?

I looked for an email for you but didn’t see it. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have, though. Fire away. 🙂

Ted