[Bob Zelin]

yes – I am talking about using AFP, SMB, or NFS to allow users to access the shared volume. The way that most corporations with networks continue to work in 2018.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

XSAN ? Really – I don’t know anyone using XSAN anymore.
The simple macOS High Sierra Server software no longer works properly like it did in the past.
There are many inexpensive network attached shared storage systems that you can purchase today from QNAP and Synology to accomplish what you want, but if you just want to use your Mac Pro, you can load in Sierra Server 10.12.6 or an older OS to get simple file sharing to work for you.
But XSAN ? Really ?

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

seeing this series of videos, and the iMac Pro fiasco from tech reviewer Linus –
well, it ruins all anticipation I may have about any new 2019 or 2020 Mac Pro. The dream of the Mac Pro (at least in my eyes) is an open platform box. They will make a great computer, and “we” can go in and add anything we want – more graphics cards, more RAM, different types of drives (SSD, M.2 SATA, etc.), 10G cards, expansion cards from companies like AVID, Matrox, Blackmagic, AJA, etc. But it appears that within a relatively short period of time, Apple has determined that for it’s business model – they want ANYTHING but this to happen. They want to be as far away from the model of the old Mac Pro Cheesegrater design as possible. That’s just the impression I get, and that’s sad. Maybe I will be wrong. When a company (I don’t care if it’s a car company, or a computer company) says “just use our stuff, stop this nonsense with these other products that we don’t sell, and you will have no problems” – well, that’s just not cool anymore. That applies to NO model of any industry that I perceive as cool – be it audio, graphics, video, cars, music, etc.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

Hi –
I am sure that you have done, what I am currently doing – using google.
I can see that https://www.broadcaststore.com has the Accom 221. They have a huge warehouse in LA with all kinds of obsolete gear. Who knows if it works. I looked at other threads, and have no idea if you are going to be able to find the Sony DFX-2100 or not.

As for “chilling out” and “slowing down” – no, I can’t do that. I, like you, am actually interested in all this stuff. I have seen for years that people have one priority – to spend less and less and do things the cheapest way possible. This is how many of the great brands of the past – GVG, Sony, etc. have partially collapsed, onto to see the companies that make the “cheap stuff” successful – even if it’s not great stuff. This applies to both small production companies, and large corporations. My last call on Friday was from a public company (on the stock market) with a dying UPS in their edit suite. I showed them a professional unit, and their only response to me was “isn’t there something for under $200 that we can get”. This is the only concern of every company today – how little can we spend. Seeing wonderfully qualified talent (editors, graphics people, etc.) getting fired from big companies because they are making too much money does not make me happy.

SO – it is a DVR-10 or DVR-20 ?
Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Ben –
welcome to Creative Cow.
I am totally confused as to what you are trying to accomplish.
You state that you purchased an old AJA CP10PS (it’s actually the AJA C10PS) parallel to serial converter. This will
turn your parallel digital signal to serial digital. This SDI signal can now go into a capture card like an AJA I/O series product or Blackmagic Decklink or Ultrastudio product, both which accept an SDI signal.
Why do you need one of these –
Sony DFX-2100
InnoVision DX210
Accom D-Bridge 221

The Accom is an old D2 parallel to D1 converter. The Sony DFX-2100 is the same thing. I don’t know why you would need these if you had the AJA.
With that said, I have been doing this for a long time, and I was around when D2 machines first came out in 1988 in NY City. At that time, when D2 was “the hot thing” – most post facilities would play back their source material from their 1″ VTR’s into an analog composite switcher (like a GVG 100 or GVG 200), and master to the analog composite input on the D2 VTR, and say “we are a digital facility”. I saw this happen with countless companies that were delivering “broadcast spec” D2 tapes at the time. Bottom line – no one really cared back then, and certainly today – no one really cares. If you can get the media transferred off any way you can, it will be a miracle.

I saw your post on the storage forums, about moving a RAID. The reason I don’t disassemble a RAID array into little pieces like you describe, is for only one reason. Cost. Most customers want their stuff moved at the lowest possible cost (even if this means labor). They don’t want you to take all day to unscrew all the drives, put them in foam cases, then move the array, then put the labor out to reassemble. The process takes too long, and your labor cost will be to high. One might say “well, they want it done the right way”. Most people today want it done the “cheap” way, or they won’t hire you again.

I see in your signature line, that you are a wanna be TV Broadcast Engineer. I am a TV Broadcast Engineer. There is no future in that. Everything is computers. You are a computer guy. Become a better computer guy. Everything is becoming video over IP, and network – not all these routers, patch bays, format converters of yester year. That part of this industry is over. Stay a computer guy. That’s where the future is now.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

I love the ASUS 10G NIC. Anything that uses the Aquantia ACQ-107 10G chip is great. This includes the ASUS, the QNAP card, the Sonnet card and Aquantia themselves I believe is now selling a 10G NIC card as well. (and of course, the iMac Pro, that uses the same 10G chip).

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

quick summary –
some idiot in front of the Chyron made the decision. And it stuck –
here is the longer story –

According to another source, in 1976, John Chancellor, the anchorman for NBC Nightly News, asked his network’s engineers to construct a large illuminated map of the United States. The map was placed in the network’s election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate that year, won a state, it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the incumbent Republican president, carried a state, it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that, four years later, all three major television networks would use colors to designate the states won by the presidential candidates on Election Night, though not all using the same color scheme. NBC continued to use the color scheme employed in 1976 for several years. NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map outcome showing Republican Ronald Reagan’s 44-state landslide as resembling a “suburban swimming pool”.[15]

CBS, from the 1984 election on, used the opposite scheme: blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC used yellow for Republicans and blue for Democrats in 1976. However, in 1980 and 1984, ABC used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats. In 1980, when independent John B. Anderson ran a relatively high-profile campaign as an independent candidate, at least one network provisionally indicated that they would use yellow if he were to win a state. Similarly, in 1992 and 1996, at least one network would have used yellow to indicate a state won by Ross Perot; neither of them did claim any states in any of these years.

By 1996, color schemes were relatively mixed, as CNN, CBS, ABC, and The New York Times referred to Democratic states with the color blue and Republican ones as red, while Time and The Washington Post used an opposite scheme.[16][17][18] NBC used the color blue for the incumbent party, which is why the Democrats were represented by Blue in 2000.

In the days following the 2000 election, whose outcome was unclear for some time after election day, major media outlets began conforming to the same color scheme because the electoral map was continually in view, and conformity made for easy and instant viewer comprehension. On Election Night that year, there was no coordinated effort to code Democratic states blue and Republican states red; the association gradually emerged. Partly as a result of this eventual and near-universal color-coding, the terms “red states” and “blue states” entered popular use in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election. After the results were final, journalists stuck with the color scheme, as The Atlantic’s December 2001 cover story by David Brooks entitled, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible”, illustrated.[19]

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

I thought you were buying something else besides QNAP.

On April 20, 2018, you wrote –
Quotes are from Lumaforge, ProMax and SNS EVO. If we go with the Qnap system, you said it will be cheaper than others but I will need your help to configure it. Righ? How much? Is it a one time config or there is maintenance every month?

I told you not to use thunderbolt bridging, and to use a 10G switch with Sonnet thunderbolt to 10G adaptors.
But you did not listen to me. Who configured your system for you ? Have you asked them about your issue ?

169.254.10.10 means that you have not configured a static IP between your thunderbolt port on your QNAP and a static IP on your Mac (thunderbolt bridging). The number you have is showing a self assigned IP. You are doing this wrong.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

I just finished a Synology DS1817+ in London 5 minutes ago. It’s a fantastic unit. Does everything the QNAP
TVS-873e can do. Just make sure to order the Intel X550-T2 card for it.

Getting the right CPU makes a world of difference.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Anthony –
it appears that you are making a selection strictly based on “what is the cheapest thing I can possibly purchase” – not what will work.

Synology makes excellent products. It’s just that Synology does not participate in the professional video market, so people don’t think about Synology when they think about video editing.

The Synology DS1817 is an older unit that uses the Amazon Annapurna CPU processors. It is a SLOW DOG. If you want this model, you purchase the NEW Synology DS1817+ which uses the Intel ATOM processors. The DS1817+ requires that you purchase an optional Intel X550-T2 10G card, as the new + model does not come for free with the 10G card.
If you say “well, If I get the DS1817, it comes with the 10G ports, and it’s cheaper than the DS1817+” – what do you want me to say Anthony ? You are making a mistake. You are buying the wrong unit, and it will not perform the way you want it to.

The same applies for the QNAP that you have mentioned. The TS-831X is now discontinued, but it too uses the horrible Amazon Annapurna CPU processors. And it’s SLOW ! How do I know this – because I personally own it. I bought the TS-831X because it was cheap, and I needed a training model for myself, to learn all the advanced features of the QNAP. And it’s the worst 8 bay that QNAP ever made. And the new TS-832X doesn’t look much better. If you want a QNAP that will compete with the Synology DS1817+ (with the 10G card), then you purchase a QNAP TVS-873e, and yes, you need to purchase a 10G option card for this model too – either the single port
QXG-10G1T or the dual 10G port QNAP LAN-10G2T-X550.

Don’t make your decision based on price. It wont work. And the drives will cost you more than the Synology or the QNAP anyway. You MUST purchase EIGHT drives and put them in a single RAID group. And even if you have no switch, you need two thunderbolt to 10G adaptors for your computers to get 10G speeds. You have not stated if you have Macs or Win 10 PC’s, and you have not stated what editing software that you use.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com