Alex Gerulaitis
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If I may be so bold… The two should be merged into: “Storage: shared”.
Reason being, people usually don’t come looking specifically for NAS or SAN, they come looking for shared storage for collaborative production and post production workflows. NAS might work for them, or it could be a SAN, or it could be a hybrid solution that can do both.
There might be one other reason, that SAN is a misnomer, a concept taken from general IT that somehow acquired that “shared” meaning among creative professionals, which isn’t really part of it. SAN isn’t shared storage, it’s a way to connect storage as if it was local, over the network. The fact that it’s not local, doesn’t make it “shared” on a file level, you still have to add a “NAS” component to it to make it so, just like with any given hard drive.
It seems that people usually mean “SAN with a file sharing system on top” when they speak of SAN in the video world – which isn’t SAN in its original meaning.
Alex Gerulaitis
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Sure, it’s one of the best out there, and isn’t so new – several years in the US, at least. Requires few if any tweaks on the client’s end (to NIC or OS configuration) – it “just works”.
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Does it have to be on-site?
Remote support (e.g. via Teamviewer) might be a better solution as might take a few tweaks to achieve a good balance. First you check the settings and if they already look good, monitor CPU, memory and GPU usage. If anything is out of whack, go back and adjust, and so on. Knowing your system configuration and monitoring system load are keys to get the settings right.
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[Jason Silzle] “-Do I need additional management software? I would run Windows 7 64b professional as the server or I might have an un-opened Windows Server 2008?”
For a DIY video NAS, what you need is a software platform that is capable of handling TCP/IP sessions with low latencies and low overhead, adequate for video editing in general and your video editing app specifically. No such COTS parts exist, except from vendors specializing in video editing and shared storage – like ProMax, Small Tree, Facilis, GB Labs.
For a DIY NAS, there’re various Linux distributions that may work, and will likely take a good effort to get it to work for your scenarios. FreeNAS is one such distribution.
That’s the main reason video NAS is still a good business for integrators (can’t buy it from Amazon), and why David’s and Bob’s recommendations are perfectly valid. Unless you’re willing to spend considerable time making things work – and then maybe you’ll be in a position to become the next ProMax or Small Tree. 🙂
Of course you could always get a beefy $15K server, 10GbE cards on all ends, and 10GbE non-blocking switch, and things may just fly. Or, you could get a less expensive and a better supported solutions from one of the vendors listed above. 🙂
Alex Gerulaitis
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Less of an advantage for applications needing less than 64GB memory, 6-8 threads, 40 PCIe lanes. There is an advantage for apps that need more than that: heavy AE, 3DS Max, Maya rendering, some financial and scientific apps, servers that need lots of I/O lanes and low response latencies.
Single CPU (Core i7): up to 32/64GB non-ECC RAM, 40 PCIe lanes. Dual Xeons: up to 512GB ECC RAM, 80 I/O lanes.
Alex Gerulaitis
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QT in itself is not a codec – but a “wrapper”, a packaging / delivery format – like AVI. Can you check your QT encoding settings and figure out what actual codec your TIFFs are being encoded to, and the settings (bit-rate, bit depth, etc.)?
Alex Gerulaitis
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Charles,
Your settings seem to be in line with Todd’s recommendations.
What are the error messages if any, on crashes?
Does it render fast when it renders?
What file formats (resolution mainly) are you working with?
What is the CPU and memory usage while rendering (does it display 100% utilization of those 16 threads)?
Have you tried playing with the settings, e.g. allocating more or less memory to other apps?
Alex Gerulaitis
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[Tom Daigon] “As I said, “in my experience” (which includes thousands of folks thru the Adobe and Cow forums) this has not been an issue that in any way, shape or manner approaches the PCs vulnerability. This may change in the future.”
So is it “my experience” or the “thousands of folks thru the Adobe and Cow forums”?
And if the latter – are those informal impressions, the “gut feeling” or a thorough count weighted against market share?
I second Walter on that the systems I manage (starting from MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 and a number of other OSs some thirty years ago) never had infections. That was my day job, and those systems were always online. So based on “my experience”, should I say Windows systems are impregnable to malware?
C’mon Tom, I don’t mean to get any deeper into this weird debate, but don’t you think folks whose job is security (like Sophos), know a little better than you and me?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA