Bob Zelin
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take your drives and stick them into a miniSAS 8 bay drive array with a miniSAS host card from Areca, ATTO or Highpoint, and your problems will be gone.
Or stick them into a thunderbolt drive array, and plug them into any Thunderbolt 2 based Mac Pro, and you will be able to do what you want. Stop that nonsense with the Hackintosh.
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simple –
stop using your eSATA card. Buy an 8 drive RAID array with a miniSAS host adaptor card (countless ones advertise right here on Creative Cow), and your problems will be gone. Why – because your current drive array is not fast enough.bob Zelin
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3g drives on the 3g buss. 6g drives on the 6g buss.
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Bob Zelin
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how could Raid0 fail? – because ALL DISK DRIVES SUCK. To be clear, all disk drives, even enterprise disk drives, are of poor quality.
NO ONE should EVER do RAID 0 for any reason (other than to boast performance speeds in a magazine ad). You are begging for trouble when you use RAID 0 – and I guess that you found trouble. What is the solution for you – BACK UP YOUR DATA constantly, and NEVER EVER use RAID 0 every again.Bob Zelin
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Hi John –
I read your post with great interest. I have just heard from a company in LA that is running a new Solaris install with a Mellanox 10G SFP+ switch (using Premiere CC 2014 on the client Mac computers with NFS) and they are having LOTS of problems.Apparantly Adobe likes this company, but things are still not working properly. Personally, I don’t know a damn thing about Solaris.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi Rich –
is there a decent Mac solution for LTO ? Really ? I guess you dont’ go to the Creative Cow Archive and Backup forum.Imagine Products PreRoll Post with the MLogic MTape is the ideal solution for LTFS with a Thunderbolt based LTO 6 drive.
And yes, Tolis Group BRU Producers Edition is the other wonderful solution if you are going to provide a HP Ultrium LTO 6 drive, which Tolis Group can provide with the Tolis Group Argest soutions.
If you would look at some of the Creative Cow user forums once in a while, instead of watching “The Golf Channel” and “Real Wives of New Jersey”, you would know where to find this information.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/197/860461
The results of the Synology.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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I only wish that David would simply say “vendor X in LA says that this StorNext solution is the only reliable solution out there today”. Then I could call that vendor on Monday, and find out the whole story, because almost NO ONE today can survive on selling SAN only – I can only assume that this vendor also sells alternate solutions, but makes the most profit (particularly on their support contract) from their StorNext based SAN, and is trying to shove it down David’s throat (don’t listen to idiots like Bob Zelin – we have major clients, and StorNext is the ONLY reliable solution for you).
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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I would love to know who the vendor is that is trying to talk you out of a 10G system. I can only assume that it is a vendor that is trying to shove StorNext down your throat, to maintain a highly complex system that requires them to support you.
As you know, AVID Unity was 4g fibre, not ISIS is Ethernet (both 1G and 10G) over iSCSI
Studio Network Solutions was at one time only Fibre – now they are 1G and 10G (also iSCSI), as well as Fibre.
ProMax offers 1G and 10G, but can offer fibre – but why should they.
Facilis at NAB 2014, was proud to show 10G networking, and while they offer even 16G fibre, the most cost effective and efficient method is with 10G, with the ATTO cards, and Netgear switch.
EditShare has always been Ethernet, and now offers both 1G and 10G.
Small Tree offers 1G and 10G in hi speed NAS enviornments.
and then there is the usual list of vendors that I list here on Creative Cow all the time, that offer wonderful solutions.
But I have to assume that you have a vendor that is pushing StorNext, and is telling you that everything else on the market is crap. Fibre systems were never “set it and forget it”. I worked on plenty of AVID Unity systems, and like with everything else in the history of linear and non linear video, right until today with all of our software that we edit with – there are always issues, from every manufacturer. That’s why we have new products, that’s why we have NAB, that’s why Creative Cow is here – to discuss problems. But all the vendors I listed, and all the vendors that I didn’t list don’t sell unstable systems.
You can certainly build a system with “user friendly parts”, like the one that I build for people, and you can certainly use off the shelf mail order NAS products with 10G interfaces from the usual (QNAP, Netgear, Synology, Thecus), but they won’t give you the same performance as the ones mentioned in this post.
In my opinion, 10G is where it’s at right now, and if that’s not fast enough for you (speeds that exceed the bandwidth requirement for a 6K RED Dragon at 5:1) – then knock yourself out with a nice Facilis 16 gig fibre system, and have an excellent vendor like Keycode in LA put it in for you.
Just stop thinking about StorNext, please.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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