Alex Gardiner
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You’ll want to use NFS exports for FCPX. Either system can do this, but may need some tuning to get the best performance.
Unfortunately 10.11.5 has performance issues with SMB. There is a post here about that:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/197/860869..You’ll find info elsewhere as well. Apple have a habit of messing this up.
As for the QNAP w/AFP thats kinda weird – you shouldn’t get such problems. I don’t know what version of netatalk QNAP use, but I expect the issue is not the server. Try with a clean share that has not been accessed using SMB…
RE software RAID reliability don’t write off products that use filesystems like ZFS or BTRFS. A hardware controller won’t necessarily be the answer to all of your troubles. ZFS is my choice, you can import a pool just about anywhere using fairly basic hardware. Its very powerful!
PS. You probably mean MB/s not GB/s, 😉
alex@indiestor.com
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“you may say “finally” but you forget that more than 50% of the customers have legacy issues here”
haha sure, but remember this is Apple we’re talking about.. this is what they do 😉
alex@indiestor.com
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There are lots of solutions to AVID bin locking, even some software only like Quadrus.
This is our offering, which is pretty new and works with any generic SMB/CIFS/AFP based drive (win & mac compatible):
https://indiestor.com/product/mimiq/
alex@indiestor.com
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Bob is right. Remove that switch from the equation!
Try connecting each client to a dedicated port on the 1515+ ( it looks like it has 4 available). In fact, it is generally a good idea to have a separate network for video work. Unless you have a switch that is known to work for this kind of thing, try to avoid using one.
Simple things to look at…
* What does Blackmagic Disk Speed Test report for offending network drives? (not going to tell you much, but worth a look – should easily hit 110MB/s over gigabit)
* What application you are using for capture?
Generally try to be on a later OS X release if you can (Yosemite or newer, although assuming you are).
I think Synology use a Samba 4 server, but I don’t own one, so can’t check. If so, you will find later OS X releases tend perform better over SMB, for various reasons. Your synology box can probably do AFP & NFS as well, which might be worth a try.
The truth is your milage is going to vary.
Unfortunately as already mentioned, it may be that the 1515+ is not up to the job. A customer of ours had two for general near-line purposes and from what I remember the performance was rather average.
alex@indiestor.com
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Hi Eduardo,
I’ll keep an eye out for the email 😉
FWIW I only really swing past here to see if I can help anybody out. I’m not much into using the forum for sales leads.
If anybody else comes past this post, we also publish a couple of open source (free) sharing softwares that work nicely with AVID, amongst other things. However, you need a Linux server to run them on. MIMIQ is a little bit different.
Take care,
Alex
alex@indiestor.com
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If Flux can export itself via AFP/SMB/CIFS then I’ll have a neat solution for you in the coming weeks.
We just completed beta on a client side utility called MIMIQ.
It sits in the system tray and gives you exactly what you need. No complication, or fuss. It works perfectly on Windows or Mac and doesn’t care how your storage is implemented.
Check our site for info soon 😉
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Had it been a HP workstation maybe you could have looked at HPSA – the modern ones are actually really good little boards. They use PMC chips, so not much different to a modern Adaptec.
If you’re on a mega budget you can pickup the older 3ware 9750’s some places (new) for dirt cheap. Driver probably won’t work on your OS though…
Maybe ask Avago directly about LSI on 8.1, they must be able to provide some advice. FWIW I work on a number of storage racks running 9361-x and they perform *very* well. The MSM software is nasty though, which leaves you with ATTO and Areca…
Areca’s management is best IMO, but they’re not cheap. Also, more of a workstation, than a server suitable solution (supposedly)… seems about right as they use daft little fans on their heat sinks. Areca also have cache profiles for video workloads (actually the modern HP stuff does too).
Forget Perc, its just rebadged LSI AFAIK.
Most will pretty much do what you want. The real question is if 4 drives are enough for what you’re doing.
FWIW worth the only none hardware solution that I’ve put into production is ZFS (on Linux in my case). Its a bloody revolution/revelation. haha.
As for drives, always go from the HCL for the product. They all fail, sooner or later – but at least using models/fw that have been tested with the controller will give you some piece of mind.
I’m not sure if this helps, but saw that you didn’t have a reply.
alex@indiestor.com
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Hi Adam, feel free to drop me a line if you want to try a free (open source) alternative.
Unlike VidSharx/SoftSharX indiestor (free and pro) are actively developed, and have a much better feature set (IMO). You will have to run the storage on Linux, but we are happy to support you on that.
Hope this is of some help,
Cheers.
alex@indiestor.com
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Hey Chris,
Not 100% sure of your requirements, but perhaps fire me an email.
We publish an Open Source NAS management tool that might be of interest. You’ll need some Linux based storage, but actually very easy to setup and even easier to use 😉
Best,
Alex
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Hi John,
Bumping an old thread here, but its still relevant.
Just wondered if you’d tried ZFS on Linux? It is also based on Open ZFS.
I mention this because we’re just finishing the dev indiestor-pro, which takes care of user, avid-specific and generic workspace management. Furthermore, the system is trained to recognise ZFS pools, which is kind of cool 🙂
The web interface is designed for editors, not engineers, so its actually really simple to operate. Each workspace has zfs-quota support, as well as easy to understand read/write lists. Behind the scenes we automatically synchronise each workspace with AFP and SMB, so it all just works.
Version 0.1 of should release in April, with a heap of backup/reporting automation to come after that. Its a Open Source tool (GPL licensed), but we’ll be charging a trivial amount for repository access.
I’d be happy to fire some testing packages over to you if you like…
OS support is for Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu 14.04.
My email is:
alex@indiestor.comThanks.
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