Alex Gerulaitis
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[Chris Maytag] “It’s clear that … NAS solutions aren’t acceptable for various reasons, hence my original post here.”
Just because NAS is slower (700MB/s per port is the fastest NAS I heard of), or for other reasons?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
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Chris,
It’s unfortunate private messages don’t work here on Cow – what I want to say isn’t necessarily for public consumption: Bob is known and is basically an industry celebrity for two things. One, he is a fantastic specialist and integrator, fiercely loyal to his clients and business partners yet never thinking twice before telling it like it is – or like he thinks it is. Which brings forward one other thing: he sometimes says rather dramatic things before he carefully reads the post.
There is history to that, too: it’s a recurring trend on this forum with people asking for enterprise grade SANs on the cheap or with DIY COTS components, and Bob has taken upon himself to set them straight – an arduous yet necessary task.
Bottom line, please don’t take offense at Bob’s words.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
I can’t quite explain why but I think this Bob Zelin’s post should be in Cow’s Hall of Fame.
(Bob: did he say “multiple streams” or “realtime”? I think he didn’t which means he just wants it “as fast as possible” – and in that case, he might get away with COTS components including those from Small Tree.)
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Very strange. I haven’t experienced that, but it’s possibly a latency issue with USB 3.0. Does the RAID have an eSATA port as well, and can you use it instead?
Do you capture using BMD utility (Media Express I think) or some NLE?
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
PoolIt is pretty cool – I’ve seen that kind of seamless virtualization from high-end NAS vendors like EqualLogic (now Dell) for $40K+, and this is free? Nice.
I’ve looked at MXFServer on behalf of a client who needed MAM, shared storage and “client access and review”, i.e. letting a non-editor access a media library through an interface simpler than Pr. Bridge doesn’t quite work that way and is not very video-frindly. MXFServer appears to do some of that, but was outside client’s budget.
Adobe Anywhere, as you mentioned, seems to be heading in the right direction, and possibly, will have MAM features in the future – and who knows? – maybe a lightweight client software? Maybe (gasp?) a browser interface? After all, the remote client for Anywhere only needs one codec, and probably needs less than 50% of Pr code base.
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[Shawn R. Britton] “What minimum RAID would you suggest with this beast for a new PPro user?”
Hi Shawn,
The most common RAID for laptop editing is a dual-drive RAID1 or RAID0 like G-RAID (mini).
Another common solution is 4-5 four drives in an external box that can be connected to the laptop via eSATA or USB3.0, set up in RAID5. It’s fast enough for most compressed editing workflows, and protects from a single drive failure as well. E.g.:
ProAvio EB400FR (eSATA and USB 2.0 – not 3.0).
I might be able to give a better answer if you give me a few details about the type of editing you do or plan to do.
With heavily compressed files from most dSLRs and flash camcorders, and relatively simple timelines (up to, say, 3 video layers) – a single 7200rpm disk or a RAID1 are enough. (As long as they’re dedicated to media files and not used for OS or apps.)
If you work with Red, DNG, dSLR time lapses, other high-bandwidth files and/or multiple video layers on your timeline (e.g. multicam) – you would usually need something faster than a single disk – e.g. a dual- or quad-bay box set up in RAID0.
HTH.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
[Shane Taylor] “Also, I have heard, but haven’t experienced myself, that if you CLONE a drive with an imaging app … Windows complains that you don’t have an ‘official’ version on that disk when you try to boot from it and wants you to activate.”
Won’t be a problem on HP (or any other Tier 1) systems: Windows activation is purely machine ID specific, not disk ID, Mac address or any other hardware.
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Yes.
GTX-560 – two monitors.
GTX-600 series (e.g. GTX-660 Ti) – up to four, depending on who made it.
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[Alex Udell] “The simplest implementation is simply to buy a NAS or SAN with enough spindle power behind it, a level of redundancy you are comfortable with and based on a connection topology that can deliver the number of streams your editors are requesting at high work volume + some overhead.”
That qualifies as an article or a blog post – great response, Alex!
Seriously, lots of people are asking for collaborative editing and MAM in CS, and this post looks like a definitive guide. On top of it, it’s short and sweet, and offers specific recommendations.
(I looked and looked, and found nothing I could add… grrrrr… :))
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA -
[Richard Floyd-Walker] “Would I feel a difference in performance with a machine of this spec.”
I am with everyone else on this: yes.
[Richard Floyd-Walker] “And if so where would the differences be most apparent.”
Smooth playback at full res, much faster rendering and export, a wide variety of inexpensive video I/O hardware options if you ever need that, upgrade-ability.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA