Hello –

I use U.2 NVMe drives all the time. I install them in QNAP TS-h1290FX and QNAP TS-h2490FU systems. U.2 (and U.3) NVMe drives are the fastest drives on the market. I have only used them in a RAID configuration – never as single drives. Another new product that uses U.2 NVMe drives is the Blackmagic Design Cloud Dock 4 and Cloud Dock 2,…

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I see that Neil has been posting quite a bit recently. I kind of gave up on this forum, as I just observed utter desperation of people with old equipment like Tolis BRU, and simply refused to accept that they had old equipment, and had to spend money. The very idea that someone won’t spend the money for a license of Hedge Canister, or YoYotta,…

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I assume you have received my reply in the email. If you have any further questions, just email me directly.

Bob Zelin

I am more and more troubled by users like Danny, and the other idiots that are using Tolis Bru, and are in a panic that they cannot use Tolis Bru, or their 2010 Mac Pro with their NVidia GPU card any longer. I am old. I will die soon. But I cannot be aggrivated by these users, who are close to retirement, that simply refuse to purchase equipment…

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As a fellow old person, I need you to acknowledge that Tolis Group, Tim Jones, and many manufactures are OVER. Apple has announced that with macOS Ventura, this new operating system will not work with any computer (translation – your expensive 2013 Mac Pro) – before 2017. Do you UNDERSTAND THIS ? The world moves on. You need to accept this.…

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Hello Bob – why won’t you simply purchase a new Mac Studio and new storage. Exactly what is your money for that you earn ?

Bob Zelin

this is an old thread. But to answer your question – YOU ARE CORRECT – any of the $600 Synology or QNAP boxes CANNOT be used for video editing. They are junk. Want a cheap one man Synology – DS1621xs+. $1599 and add 6 matching 7200 RPM SATA drives.

Connect from your computer over 10G (get a 10G NIC for your computer. New Mac’s come with 10G,…

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thunderbolt 4 is not faster than thunderbolt 3.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-envoy-pro-fx

and if you are confused by my statements –

and what is with the – – – – – –

?

Bob Zelin

Hi Mike –

Blackmagic Design Cloud Store

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccloudstore

Blackmagic Design Resolve 18 with new proxy generator

QNAP TS-h2490FU and TDS-h2389FU. U.2 NVMe’s are a lot faster than SATA drives.

QNAP QSW-M5216-1T 25G SFP28 switch – 16 port for $1200 !!!!!

Lucid Link, and Hedge PostLab Drive for remote…

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Hi-

Gino Salvatelli hired me to install his QNAP TS-h1683XU-RP. It was done this past week, and everything is working great.

bobzelin@icloud.com

I install the QNAP TVS-h1288X all the time. This is excellent for professional video editing for Adobe Premiere, FCP X, Davinci Resolve or AVID Media Composer (AVID if you install Indiestor Mimiq on your workstations). You need two 500 Gig SSD drives to run the QuTS operating system, and all eight matching 7200 RPM SATA drives. You create 2…

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Hi Todd –

I am glad you found a solution with YoYotta. I want to be clear about this, since many of the people that participate on Creative Cow are older now. (old bags – or as Reddit refers to us, as Boomers) – because I am active on Reddit in many video forums. YoYotta is GREAT software. But in fairness to other manufacturers, so is Hedge,…

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you do know, that LTO5 is over. We currently live in the LTO7/LTO8 world. Modern drives won’t read LTO5 tapes.

and

LTO-9

LTO drive generations 1-7 are able to read tapes from two generations prior and are able to write to tapes from the prior generation.

LTO-8 drives can read and write to LTO-7 and LTO-8 media, including
LTO-7…

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Hello –

go to http://www.macsales.com

type in LTO. You will find the OWC Mercury Pro that OWC is currently selling. It says on all products “Includes ArGest Backup Software”. But if you search for ArGest or Argest Backup software, you see nothing. If you google ArGest Backup Software, you find nothing. When I go to http://www.owc.com, I see all the other…

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you actually think that Tolis Bru is coming back ? Really ? Have you not read the discussions on this forum ? I want you to sing it with me now – “its over ……..”

Bob

ooh – your CatDV expert at DDB just moved to Tampa !

Maybe its time for DDB and you Tom to move to Florida too !

Bob Zelin

yes sir. http://www.teamviewer.com

Bob

and tell your employer that I did the systems for Crop Creative, Guidewell Studios, Kinetic Productions and Tiger Lily Media in Jacksonville.

Bob

where did you get this equipment list ? From me ?

Your TVS-h1688X needs two 480 Gig SSD drives to hold the ZFS operating system. You build this first. Then the RAID group, as a single thin provisioned RAID – RAID 6. I can’t believe you are using 4TB drives – such a waste – get bigger drives. You will regret only having 40TB of storage in this…

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either I was not clear (I often am not !) – or you did not understand my post. Those 3 products you list are for Thunderbolt 3 computers, not a 2013 6,1 Mac Pro that uses Thunderbolt 2. If you have Big Sur running on a 2013 6,1 Mac Pro, the ONLY product you can use is the Sonnet Solo 10G T2 (thunderbolt 2). You cannot use one of the T3…

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these posts are really starting to bother me.

Here is the http://www.owc.com website

https://www.owc.com/

Do you see how newly acquired LumaForge is now on the website, but Tolis Group is not ?

Here is the OWC http://www.macsales.com website, and when you search for LTO products (3/21/2021) you get 14 listings – here is one of them –

https://eshop.macsales.com/it…

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Hi Mel –

with Big Sur, it’s over. Up through 10.15.7 Catalina, I would go into recovery mode on the Mac, and disable System Integrity Protection, by typing into terminal “csrutil disable” and reboot the Mac. Then I could load Sonnet Twin 10G and Promise SanLink2 drivers. But with the introduction of Big Sur 11.x, that no longer seems to work.…

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No one is making a new Thunderbolt 2 RAID array. Thunderbolt 3 is the current RAID’s (compatible with Thunderbolt 4). You cannot future proof. You will spend money on electronic equipment until you die. This is how all electronic companies make so much money. When you refuse to update, they make sure that your older computers will not run the…

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Hello Michel –

30 editors is a lot of editors on a single system, even for a Terrablock Hub 16. You want to do Apple ProRes 1080 HD at 25 fps. That is 17.27 MB/sec (AJA Data Calc). So that is 1036 MB/sec total bandwidth.

With a 16 bay NAS, you get about 1800 MB/sec total aggregate bandwidth. So for QNAP, you would choose a QNAP TS-h1683XU-RP.…

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Hi Pedro

a) QNAP specifically states in every description of any QuTS product to put the operating system on the SSD’s, not the disks. You can put them on the disks (I did this by accident the first time I built one), but it is the wrong thing to do. I guess you can put them on the internal M.2 drives, but if one of them fails, then you have to…

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2 SSD’s for your RAID 1 operating system – Storage Pool 1 with 2 of the SSD’s.

forget the Caching

all 12 drives (yes – ALL 12 DRIVES) in a single raid group – RAID 6 thin provisioning as storage Pool 1 (max size).

Your 10G port goes to a 10G switch. You plug your 3 computers into that 10G switch with 10G adapters. All static IP addresses –

for…

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https://www.wemakemovies.org/smartphonestudio

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/tutorials/2282-sam-mestman-s-we-make-movies-publishes-ten-smartphone-studio-tutorials

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2034-emerging-la-filmmakers-create-short-films-with-small-budgets-and-big-ideas

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2267-learning-filmmaking…

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Mr. Linke probably will not want to spend $1000 for a card. I have no idea of how old this Maxx Digital EVO 8 bay is. So he is going with an ATTO R680, or an Areca ARC1883x (which as 12G connectors, and I bet it’s a 3G or 6G chassis – so he would need to try to find an old Areca ARC-1882x or ARC-188x with the proper cables). The original…

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I have no idea how someone moves from incredibly beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona to Owens Cross Roads Alabama. My bass player and his incredibly successful wife live in Isleworth, Florida (think Shaquille O’Neil and Tiger Woods, and others) and HE wants to move to be near his kids in Alabama. WHY would any human being do this ? Why would ANY…

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Mark James is your contact at OWC for questions about SoftRAID.

Bob Zelin

Philip – just stop this nonsense with RAID 0.

from Dec 18th 2020 –

We are releasing a M1 (Apple Silicon) version of SoftRAID today with the SoftRAID 6 beta.

We have performance optimization to work on for new volumes, but older volumes should be OK.

There are still some issues, feel free to post any differences you see, but at least you can be…

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Raid 0 – smart choice.

(:

Good luck.

Bob

The UVW-1800 has a TBC built into it. Take the ForA out of the equation ! You don’t need it.

As for your levels (saturated color, phase is off) if you don’t have scopes, you can’t make any adjustments.

Bob Zelin

Jeremy is of course, correct. I don’t care if you are using Resolve, Media Composer or Premiere. Proxy workflow is a standard workflow these days, and has been especially reinforced due to remote editing in 2020 – current. You don’t need a new computer, you need to change your workflow (and you probably need faster storage). Getting a “new M1…

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I strongly suggest contacting Neil Sadwelkar in Mumbai. Neil is a great engineer, and can assist you with all of this. I work with him all the time in India.

http://www.sadwelkar.com/neil.htm
Bob Zelin

Hi David and Tim –

I just called OWC at (800) 275 4576. I spoke with Celeste in Customer Support. She said they have not heard of Tolis Group, nor are they offering support of Tolis Group products. How could this be ? So I went to https://www.owc.com and there is no mention of Tolis Group or BRU. Now, I if I do a Google search on this, I…

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This is great news Tim ! In 2021, LTFS is the only way to go. I just saw this article from StorageDNA –

2_WHITE PAPER_Facts About LTO and LTFS

“Why LTO and LTFS is the best option for long-term data storage” –

and between what MagStor is doing, and of course MLogic (MTape), YoYotta, Imagine…

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I am also very very happy that Other World Computing is currently recommending the LTFS format for their own branded LTO products –

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-mercury-pro-lto?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIg9XSqeuv7gIVRuHICh0OGgjLEAAYASAAEgJDZPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

LTFS Compatible: archive files/folders with drag and drop easeSimple Interface: mount,…

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Hi Tim –

this is a great post. MagStor is a great company, and YoYotta is a great company. Martin is a pleasure to deal with and is very very responsive to customers. And so is Hedge with Canister.

Bob

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how can anyone answer you, and tell you what capture product to get, if you don’t say what Mac Pro you have – a 2009 Mac Pro, a 2013 Mac Pro Cylinder, or a 2019 Mac Pro ?

And you do know, when you go to eBay to get the cheapest BetaSP machine you can find, the odds are, it will break while you are using it, and chew up your tapes

bob

your 1685 seems to die ?

really ? I bet there is nothing wrong with your TS-1685. Since you are going to move everything to another NAS, setup the new NAS ( I do this for a living), transfer your data onto the new NAS with Hybrid Backup Sync, wipe out the TS-1685, rebuild the RAID group (static volume), create a SMB shared folder, and you will…

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yes – its the serverprefmode=1 fix. If you need it I can post it again here.

Apple started to support SMB with FCP X 10.3. That was years ago, NFS is a mess, and

the leading expert of NFS, Marcel Bresink, always complains about how Apple has been handling NFS, which is not at all !

http://www.bresink.com/

I have no “fix” for you if you continue to…

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while I don’t have an honest answer for you, when I see this –

I would guess that when it says “Currently unavailable.

We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.”

I am guessing the product is end of life.

I was shocked to recently see that when…

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https://www.atto.com/corporate/news/376/ATTO-Technology-Announces-Support-for-Apple-s-Next-Generation-Operating-System-macOS-11-Big-Sur

macOS 11 Big Sur is the most significant operating system upgrade from Apple since the introduction of Mac® OS X in 2001. It features a major redesign of the user interface as well as support for Apple’s AR…

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And I thought that “The Relaxed Dog” was wonderful

https://www.therelaxeddog.com/about

A wonderful video

Bob Zelin

if he had a blown fuse, he would have no power. So what is this forum becomming – the geriatric video users forum. This is 2020. I have been doing this longer than both of you have been alive. Buy some new equipment. JESUS !

Bob Zelin