Andrew Richards
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You lost your data when the second drive failed. Everything after that is moot. Sorry.
Lesson: when a drive in a RAID-5 set dies, replace it ASAP so the RAID can rebuild itself. A RAID-5 with a dead drive is as vulnerable as a RAID-0.
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Andy -
Too much? Et tu Bob?
A bare LTO-5 drive costs at least $2K, and then they wrap it in a server with their own custom web-based software for managing your tape set. And they support them. I’d say the Cache-A rigs are a steal.
I can’t remember, was everyone complaining about the cost of VTRs like this when videotape was still the only way to move video around? Even the cheap ones were many thousands of dollars, nevermind the king’s ransom for Digibeta, HDCam, DVCPRO, et. al…
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Oops, I was jumping to a RAID-5 conclusion. Alex is right.
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Does the project management need to be a shared app? If not you can get the Gantt goodness you are after in OmniPlan on your desktop.
Shotgun looks really nice. Paying per user will add up for a big team though.
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Practically speaking you can use those drives in a new enclosure, but you will be wiping them to make a fresh RAID set out of them. You’ll need to offload your data somewhere and then move it back. There is virtually no chance you would find a FW800 enclosure that would take your existing drive set and retain the data. Bottom line, the safe route is to offload and start fresh with your drives in their new home.
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Andy -
New, supportive shoes. Take a hit of ibuprofen each day before the show and after (you’ll be a lot less sore the next day than if you wait to hurt before you start popping pills). And if you’re a bigger guy like me, Gold Bond is your friend.
Get a show map from the NABshow website ahead of time and plan your route from booth to booth. If you don’t you’ll waste a lot of time wandering needlessly. The LVCC is massive, and it is crazy to bounce from hall to hall.
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I’m not aware of any vendors renting drives, but I’m also not sure renting is very practical. For one thing, LTO-5 drives need to connect via SAS, so that is a card that you’d also need to have or rent (and I wouldn’t recommend renting an internal card, it might be practical for ExpressCard on a laptop, if you have a slot). Another issue is the software you will use to work with the drive. There are a number of options like BRU PE, Retrospect, and LTFS, and I’m not sure how tolerant they would be to seeing a different drive each time. It might require some annoying repetition of setup procedures.
Stand-alone LTO-5 drives sell for $2K-$4K, so while they aren’t cheap like an external HDD, they aren’t prohibitively expensive either. Renting one over the course of a year would probably pay for the drive anyway.
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I forgot to add:
You won’t be able to use the built-in gigabit Ethernet ports on your iMac or MBPs to stream ProResHQ unless they are the older Core2 powered models that have support for jumbo frames. The newer Core iX models do not have jumbo frame capabilities, which seriously limits your ability to stream video in real time. If your MBPs have ExpressCard slots, they can have jumbo frame NICs added, but there is no solution for a Core iX iMac.
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Jonathan,
I’d love to show you Motion Media Suite if you are attending NAB. I think MMS would suit your desired workflow very well. I’m also happy to discuss it here or offline if you like.
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StorNext MDCs. Quantum’s support is excellent and enterprise is all they do. Night and day versus Apple’s Xsan support. Plus it opens you up to more features like HSM, replication, and you could even look into Marquis Medway to let your Avids hook in.
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Andy