Bob Zelin
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I used to use Thursby all the time, but then Apple fixed smb. I actually believe that they hired the programmer who worked for Thursby. Anyway, smb3 works wonderfully with both Yosemite Server and El Capitan Server. And almost 100% of my clients are now using CC2015 for everything, so I am not seeing any issues. And I get the same wonderful 10G speeds that you are getting.
So the only variable I can see in your system is FreeNAS. Try it without it.
Bob Zelin
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Hi Nat –
did you contact Sam Mestman ? How was the LumaForge ?
Have you contacted Facilis ? Did you make a purchase yet ?We are all interested to hear what you are going to buy !
Bob Zelin
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Hi –
you have 10 250Gb drives. This is 2.5 TB. These are 10 – 11 year old drives.You can buy a single 3TB HGST drive for $130, and a Highpoint Thunderbolt dock for your
MacBook Pro for $146.So are you actually asking “why should I spend 300 bucks, for a brand new fast reliable drive and dock, when I can just reuse my 11 year old Medea ?”.
You can now answer your own question.
Bob Zelin
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it is very important to me to point out that people like Drew that are trying to keep old 4Gig Fiber technology alive are completely crazy.
This is the link from Apple on 4G fiber cards from February 2015
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201631the world has moved on. You should not be using these products anymore. Only a fool would be using Apple/LSI 4g fiber products today in late 2015.
You need to update your system. End of story.
Bob Zelin
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Hello Juan Ma.
your English is excellent.There is no FAST way to send 93 Gigabytes fast over the internet.
Have him FedEx a disk drive.
Bob Zelin
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Tony –
Do you know how to use the internet ?
These are the people that sell the QNAP TVS-871T in Australia –
ARC Computers
iStore
eStore
and Austin
you could have also hired MIT Services in Australia, and they would have helped you put this together.The TVS-EC880 has the capability of using the LAN-10G2T-D card, so you could have gone into a 10G port on a 10G uplink switch from Netgear, but you chose not to do this, for whatever insane reason, and decided to do LACP instead, with crappier performance. Why – I have no idea why. Maybe you should have hired MIT Services.
The 871T is a very cost effective unit, that comes standard with the 10G card I mentioned above (dual port), and uses the Tbolt 2 ports for expansion to another 8 bay chassis. The Chassis that you have can expand using the SAS-6G2E-D card. There is nothing wrong with SAS expansion – most manufacturers (including QNAP) do this most of the time.
here is a list of on line stores in Australia that could have gotten the XS712T switch for you (or anything else from Netgear) –
https://www.netgear.com.au/home/shop/#tab-onlinestoresBob Zelin
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Peter –
I am very confused by your post. You said that you just got a RED Scarlet. So are you a cameraman, or an editor ? Don’t you have friends, or associates that edit ? Isn’t the project that you are involved with complex enough, that you are SO BUSY shooting, possibly directing, lighting, dealing with actors, locations, etc. that you need to worry about editing the project ?Being an editor, being an audio guy, being a graphics artist is a full time job. These are all unique careers. Are you doing EVERYTHING, including shooting, directing, lighting, casting, editing, graphics, audio, and encoding for delivery ?
You just bought an expensive camera. How about getting some guys together (or gals) and having them edit with their equipment ?
Let them buy the right equipment. I understand that you ran out of money.Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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https://www.easeus.com/mac/mac-data-recovery/
send me cookies, or something !
Bob
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Hi –
I really don’t like Matthews attitude. He clearly states that he is unfamiliar with this type of equipment, and is now IN CHARGE of making this happen.Want a working system, with a RAID that you can share ?
1) Go to Newegg, and buy your multiple REFURBISHED HP Z420 computers. These are wonderful inexpensive computers. You don’t need thunderbolt for anything that you are going to do. You can get these for under $1000 each.
2) buy an 8 bay QNAP NAS – model TVS-863+. Now you will have a drive array that is fast enough to keep up with multiple systems running at normal HD rates. Buy a Netgear 10G uplink switch (under $1000) to distribute to all the network ports on your HP PC’s, and you will have enough bandwidth to do what you want.
DONE – there is your solution for under $10,000 for everything.
How someone with little or no background in charge of this project is completely beyond me. This is not your fault – this is your bosses fault because he is too cheap to hire your local professional dealer to come in and do this for your company. Instead of relying on Creative Cow, why don’t you go to the local professional reseller, and have them put a quote together for you, for multiple PC’s, and a shared RAID array. Why on earth do you want to “custom build” these PC”s when you can simply go out and BUY THEM from reputable companies, so that you are assured that you will be able to run the Adobe CC suite, Cinema 4D, and whatever other professional applications that you need ?
Am I bashing you – no, you are being ignorant (or innocent) of the simple correct procedure of doing THE RIGHT THING. If you need a car, you don’t go to the junk yard to try to put pieces together to have a car. You go to a used car lot if you don’t have money, and you find a used car, with some sort of support from the lot that you bought it from.
Anyway, not only did I provide you with detailed information previously about RAID cards for your PC that would work reliably for you, I have just given you a complete list of equipment that you can purchase, without having to build anything, and will do exactly what you want for the budget that you want.
If you are determined to put together a Win Thunderbolt based solution, I can only ask WHY ? You don’t have the budget to do this. What benefit will Thunderbolt give you at your budget ?
You can get a Promise R8, for example, that requires Windows 10 drivers, but how are you going to share this ?Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com