Andrew Richards
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Mark my words: WWDC will not announce FCPX or any hardware. iOS 5 and Lion will occupy the entire keynote. FCPX will come later in the month (assuming they hit their ship estimate), probably at a dedicated media event. Maybe there will be a “one more thing” hardware announcement at the FCPX media event, but recently new Macs are released with very little fanfare.
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Indeed. And the final countdown begins. If Apple is going to hit the stated release target, we’ll know before we turn another page on the calendar. Between the announcements at WWDC and the release of FCPX (and hopefully new versions of the lesser apps of the old Final Cut Suite), this June should tell us all a lot!
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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I’ve even had continual trouble with the Gefen fiber DVI extenders. I had ports on several boxes go dark on the last batch. And I can also backup the experience of their support bending over backwards to blame the user.
When they work, they work. But they do break often.
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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I can also report a fair amount of attrition with Gefen equipment. I’ve used it over the years at a few facilities where I worked and we consistently had boxes fail and require a mail-in replacement. It led us to keep spares on hand. So if you are only doing a couple machines, springing for the Avocent might actually be cheaper than buying cold spare Gefen boxes to guarantee your uptime.
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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Quantum recommends ATTO for their newer drives, so this one would probably suit you:
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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I don’t think it will let you do what you are trying to do. It will only offer you JBOD or RAID options. What you want is a couple of these:
https://www.newertech.com/products/voyagerq.php
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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Good stuff, thanks for sharing. I agree Storage DNA’s marketing needs to catch up to their engineering. From looking at their site you’d never know they had their Evolution product at all. Google found me a PDF press release about it, but that is all. I guess if you have to pick one to prioritize, they picked the important one.
Good luck with your new purchase, let us know how it goes.
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Hmm. That doesn’t jive with reports of Intel’s launch-day statements, but since we don’t yet have a published spec on TB, we don’t know definitively. Here is where I read there would not and could not be TB cards:
What you might see though is a breakout adapter that is a PCIe card and DisplayPort cable that would essentially get you the same result. Or perhaps cards could exist that are like TB without the DisplayPort stream. But I doubt it.
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Bob,
I have to disagree with your contention that the broader business IT market doesn’t use fiber. Copper has limited range. Fiber is used exclusively in the long run applications by telcos and facilities alike. It doesn’t matter what signal is, fiber is the rule once you get beyond the reach of a few hundred meters.
Comcast runs fiber to every neighborhood it is in, it just switches to copper for the last mile. FiOS is novel in that it takes the glass to the demarc, but then again any business with a commercial Internet connection has had a fiber demarc for years.
There are some apt parallels to SCSI, but TB is a lot more capable. TB is basically a way to get PCIe capabilities outside the box, and that means where you used to get an HBA card, now you’ll get an HBA dongle. Where you used to get a Kona card, now you’ll get a box.
I think the only time we’ll see a TB “switch” is for those times we don’t want to daisy chain. I don’t think we’ll be treating TB as a switched networking protocol. Why would we when we already have so many established protocols that we can just hang off of the TB bus?
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Neil,
There are far more considerations than sharing the cost of high performance storage when sharing. With shared storage, ingest can be separated without requiring a copy before work can be gin on that footage. Also, any maintenance that must go on with a local system that might displace an editor with local storage would mean much more work to get that editor up and cutting on another system than with shared storage.
Shared storage is more about workflow flexibility than cost savings in my book. DAS has always been cheaper than SAN or NAS.
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Andy