Bob Zelin
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Rob writes ” Is it it’s own category, or can it be considered a subset and a
combination of formal, social and applied science?”REPLY –
Grinner and myself believe that you are not in the professional video business but are in “academia” .
It is therefore my sworn duty to fly to your location, and kill you, as you are wasting valuable space for other humans that actually PRODUCT things that other humans can use. I firmly believe that terrorists and serial killers contribute more to society (in creating the need for jobs) than you do.DUDE – are you serious – a “combination of formal, social and applied science ” ? Do I help support your local police and fire department with my taxes ?
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Hi Mike –
I am typing too fast. I thought foolishly that you had a TVS-873. You have a TS-831X. The TVS-873e is wonderful. The TS-831X is useless. If you can return it, you should do so, along with the 10G card that you purchased.
Get the TVS-873e with the NEW QNAP QXG-10G1T, and you will be fine.I fully understand that these boxes “look the same”. They are not the same, neither are the 10G cards.
The difference between Tehuti and Aquantia is night and day.Bob Zelin
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Hi –
I apologize for what will be a smart a** answer, but sorry – it’s the truth –1) you purchased a TVS-873 with 4 gigs of RAM, because it was cheap – you should have purchased the 8 gig model
2) I just explained – you purchased the wrong 10G card.
The QNAP LAN-10G1TA uses the horrible Tehuti 10G chip that is the same chip that Akitio uses (which is why Akitio thunderbolt adaptors are so slow). The NEW QNAP QXG-10G1T (this is a DIFFERENT MODEL from the LAN-10G1TA)
uses the NEW Aquantia 107 chip – the SAME 10G chip that is in the iMac Pro.
I see that this card is now available on Amazon –
https://www.amazon.com/QXG-10G1T-Single-port-Low-profile-pre-loaded-Full-height/dp/B07CW2C2J1/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527022910&sr=8-1&keywords=QXG-10G1T3) you have 8 4TB drives – are they in a static volume RAID 5 or RAID 6, or did you create the default Thick Volume ?
4) you say that you have the iMac Pro. Did you DISABLE SMB SIGNING – because if you don’t, you get CRAPPY speeds.
you don’t need to return anything. You need someone who knows how to set all this stuff up.
here is the QNAP TVS-873e
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tvs-873eIf I referred to this as the TS-831X ( I don’t believe I did) then I am an idiot.
the TS-831X is a totally useless product that is insanely slow. Many of these products “look” identical, and people buy them, because they seem cheaper. It’s only from experience that you find out which models work well, and which models do not work well. The TS-831X – this model – –
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-831x
will NEVER work well ( I know – I own one) – it’s SLOW, and the WRITE speeds are always horrible. While it may be fine for accounting data, it is USELESS for a video editing application.There is no miracle fix for the TS-831X. It’s the wrong unit. The TVS-873e is a totally different unit.
Just like the TS-1685 and the TS-1635. The 35 is $1500 cheaper, and it is a useless piece of junk (except for a slow backup unit). The TS-1685 is a world class shared storage system that is SUPER FAST and can do 8K editing.
The extra $1500 makes a world of difference. But they both physically look the same. SO – how do I know all of this – EXPERIENCE. I ordered a TS-1635 for a client, and they were ready to kill me. Thank God the dealer took back the TS-1635.Bob Zelin
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Hi Mark –
the TVS-831e is a very nice little system. Unlike it’s more expensive similar systems, like the TS-1685 12 bay or TVS-1282T 8 bay, the TVS-831e does not come with 2 things
1) there is no 10G network card in this unit. It’s an option
2) there is no 12G miniSAS expander card in this unit. It’s an option.You MUST purchase a 10G card for this system, or it will be useless for you. Currently the correct card is the
QNAP LAN-10G2T-X550. It’s $359 US. ($399 retail). HOWEVER – QNAP has announced, and allegedly released a new cheap single port 10G card for this unit that is only $139. It’s the QNAP QXG-10G1T. (this is NOT the QNAP
LAN-10G1TA – I know, it’s all very confusing). I have not seen the QNAP QXG-10G1T at any US dealer so far, but it allegedly is out and available. This is a single port 10G card that is half the price of the QNAP LAN-10G2T-X550 that uses the same 10G Aquantia 107 chip that is in the new iMac Pro.With that said, yes, the TVS-831e will work wonderfully for you if it is setup correctly.
When you built a multi drive system with 8 drives, you can configure this for RAID 5 (to allow for one disk failure before losing all your data) or RAID 6 (to allow for two disk failures before losing all your data). Of course, when you do this, you lose the equivalent of one or two drives worth of usable storage for your system.For thunderbolt 2 computers, the Sonnet Twin 10G will work very well for you.
It becomes very confusing to choose a QNAP, because there are so many models that physically look similar. It’s only because I tested a TVS-831e that I can tell you that it is a good fast system. A similar cheap model – the TS-831x is a terrible slow system, that is sold at an almost identical price point. Most of the systems I put in are about double the price of the TVS-831e – specifically the TS-1685, or the TVS-1282T.
Let me know if you need any further information. I will answer whatever you need to know.
Bob Zelin
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do you mean this –
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/preserving-digital-records/droid/then based on this –
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204036this is the link you need to get Java on your Mac –
https://www.java.com/en/Bob Zelin
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I cannot find Droid for Mac – the utility you are referring to. Please post the link, and I will try to tell you what to do.
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. Seagate Ironwolf drives are excellent. It is the first time in over a decade that Seagate has made a decent drive. And QNAP directly endorses Seagate IronWolf drives. I have just had bad results in prior years with Seagate Barracuda and Seagate Constellation drives – LOTS of failures, so I stuck with HGST (and now Western Digital). Hey – I used to think that QNAP sucked at one time too. But they learned their lesson.
Same with Seagate – after 10 years of bad reviews, I guess that they said “we better get our act together”. Now, if only Drobo could do the same…………………..Why did you buy such small drives, when you can get 10 TB Seagate IronWolf drives ?
this is a Seagate IronWolf drive – they are excellent –
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1267275-REG/seagate_st10000vn0004_10tb_ironwolf_7200rpm_sata.htmlhere is the Constellation series – they are now discontinued.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/929904-REG/seagate_st4000nm0023_4tb_constellation_es_3_sas.htmlBob Zelin
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yes, like most companies that you purchase from, I use https://www.teamviewer.com to remote into your systems.
I have done this in Australia for
Rogue Creative in Sydney, Platinum HD in Queensland, and The Solid State in Sydney.
The most recent of these was for Rogue, who has a TVS-1282T, with 4 computers. They are using a Netgear
XS708T 8 port 10G switch on their system. The entire setup was done via Teamviewer. If you email me, I will send you his contact information, and you can ask how he likes his system. It was setup on Feb 14th, 2018.Can you plug directly into the back of the QNAP – yes you can. Here is how it works and this is why using a switch is easier.
You assign a static IP address for Eth 5 (the first 10G port on the QNAP ) to 192.168.2.3, and the computer that plugs into this directly is assigned to 192.168.2.4. For Eth 6, (the second 10G port on the QNAP) – you assign this port to
192.168.3.3, and the client computer static IP to 192.168.3.4 (this is a different subnet). Now, you only have four 1G ports left, so you will not get 10G speeds on these. The third computer port on the QNAP will be 192.168.4.3
and the client computer (1G only) will be 192.168.4.4. You must keep track of exactly which computer plugs into exactly what port on the back of the QNAP, or it will not connect. But yes, this does work.If you simply purchase a switch, you don’t have to go thru all this suffering. You assign a single static IP to the 10G port, plug into the switch, and then all the computers just plug into the switch, and they are all on the same subnet. You don’t have to worry about which computer goes into which port.
The idea of using a single port per computer is a fantasy, because you only have so much bandwidth from the drives. 8 drives will give you about 1000 MB/sec total bandwidth after RAID 5. A Sonnet Solo 10G connected to a thunderbolt 3 iMac will give you a 1000 MB/sec connection. So if you have two computers, both with Sonnet Solo 10G’s on them – guess what – they both can’t get 1000 MB/sec, because the drives only can produce 1000 MB/sec total aggregate bandwidth.
In real life, you will be doing 100 – 200 MB/sec per client while working in 4K, and less than this with 1080i or 720p HD editing.The switch will make your life easier, but if every penny counts, then we can plug in directly. But only 2 guys can get the 10G speeds.
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where to find Davinci 14 ? Umm, it’s on the Blackmagic website, under support.
Its directly below Davinci 15https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion
thats not the “dark web”.
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these are not “better drives”. The HGST NAS series are “desk star” or desktop series drives. The “better” drives are
Enterprise or Ultrastar drives. WD GOLD for example are “better drives”. The HGST NAS series are very inexpensive, and very reliable.How little do you want to spend on this ?
Bob
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