Bob Zelin
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thank you for posting this link. As you can clearly see by the QNAP post, none of the newer professional models are affected by any of this – this is only for the OLD units. I have not seen one client with QNAPs having this issue (I stated doing QNAPs in May 2015).
When you buy a QNAP (or a Synology, or a Thecus, or a Netgear ReadyNAS, or an Asustor), it needs to be setup. It does not just plug in and work. Part of the setup is to do a firmware upgrade, for all of these models. Many people feel that if they get one of these products with the drives, they will take it out of the box, plug it in, and the NAS will miraculously mount on their desktop. It does not work this way. These are not Promise Pegasus or G-Tech Studio XL thunderbolt RAID arrays that come preconfigured. You can either get someone to help you in setting one of these units up, or you can purchase a more expensive product with wonderful support (that you are ultimately paying for) from EditShare, AVID, Facilis, ProMax, Studio Network Solutions, etc.
There ain’t no free lunch.
Bob Zelin
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Hi –
I agree with Nate. I have personally had poor experiences with the Akitio bus powered thunderbolt to 10G adaptor. My real problem with this product, is that it overheats after 12 hours of continuous use. Most clients just leave their computers on forever, and if you do this, I have observed that the Akitio overheats and then fails.With that said, I assume you are either testing with AFP, or if you are using SMB, you have turned of SMB signing in
the nsmb.conf file, or your will get very poor SMB performance. This is not an Akitio issue – its an Apple issue.Personally, I have found that both the Sonnet Twin 10G series (either in the round box or the SEL square box), AND the Promise SanLink2, and SanLink3 (the SanLink3 is buss powered) are both excellent, and give wonderful performance. I connected a SanLink3 from Promise to a Razor Win 10 PC, hooked up to a QNAP TS-1685, and got
550 MB/sec write, and 1000 MB/sec READ (using AJA System Test). The ATTO Thunderlink boxes are also good, but they are twice the price of the Promise or Sonnet.Bob Zelin
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I think this is a huge story. Instead of pro users going to pro dealers, Apple wants to sell this package at the shopping mall – to exactly who ? Parents who want to get their kids a “moving making package” for college.
Again, another attempt to bypass the professional market (gee – what is the professional market – anyone can make a movie). Will this kit be on display in the corner of the Apple store, with an Apple Genius answering questions about the RED camera ?Bob Zelin
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please tell me why someone would prefer to use Amazon S3 or Google Drive or DropBox, for massive amounts of data, when you can simply buy a QNAP, keep it at a remote location, and accomplish the same thing ?
At the beginning, you can bring the QNAP to your main shared storage system, copy over the data, and now move it to a remote location (like your home, instead of your office). So you bought the $3000 QNAP and the drives, but now your expense is over, and you can use MyQNAPCloud or CloudLink to access your data, or backup additional data.If you have ever used Amazon Snowball, you will see that the process is not easy – it’s not plug and play. There is no easy to use “app” for Mac or PC to upload or download from an Amazon snowball – its all CLI commands in terminal.
So for those that say “I just don’t want to deal with this, I would rather pay someone” – well, you will be paying someone to get your Amazon Snowball to work.Bob Zelin
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resilio works fine.
If your remote site has a slow connection, when you try to transfer 1TB, you will see that it times out.
Transfering 1 TB over a slow connection is a weekend project, not an overnight project.
A few hundred gigabytes in 12 hours is ambitious. Don’t blame the technology, blame the cable companies.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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https://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
I assume you have a dock to mount the Seagate drive into, for your Mac
if you don’t –
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB2DOCK12P/and if it’s not thunderbolt –
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3S3HD/next time, tell him to format the drive EX-FAT, and you will be able to read it instantly.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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if you simply purchase a Sonnet Twin 10G or Promise SanLink2 which are thunderbolt 2 to 10G adaptors, you will get incredible speeds from your older MacBook Pro. Problem solved.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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I am not sure what you are looking for. You already state that you are using Resilio Get Sync. I could sit here and talk about a whole new system, like QNAP, but doing QNAP RTRR over the internet is not going to be any faster than Resilio Get Sync. Products like Aspera and Signiant cost a lot of money, and require licenses at each location, and once again, you are at the mercy of your internet connection. The cost is your upload and download speed, not the hardware. You could work with h264 proxy files, to make this quick, and relink the media, but if you were to say “look, we have 40 terabytes at location A, and we want 40 terabytes synced at location B” – there ain’t no miracle fix here. You transmit data, be it Aspera, Signiant, QNAP RTRR, or the wonderful Resilio Get Sync Program. Isn’t there a cheap super fast way to transmit 4TB of data across the internet from Kansas City to New York – simple answer – NO.
If the mother ship is Kansas City, and the remote location is New York, you certainly could setup Adobe Anywhere, IF your media is in Kansas City, but what happens if you have 4TB of media in NY that has to get to Kansas City. You are in the same pickle.
One day, we will all have crazy fiber connections going everywhere. Today is not that day.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Justin writes –
I contacted another CreativeCow user using the TS-1685 who gave it a solid review so I think we’ll go in that direction. I’m in touch with Bob Zelin who will help sort out any specifics for us.REPLY – I would never trust that Bob Zelin guy. He is an idiot. He built a system for me, and it never
worked, and he charged me a FORTUNE of money. I would hire anyone else but him.xoxo
bobBob Zelin
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yes –
what questions do you have.
Please be aware that these are thunderbolt 3 connections, which means new MacBook Pro’s. You will have to assign static IP’s to each of these thunderbolt ports, and static IP’s to the thunderbolt bridge ports on your new Mac Book Pro’s. This is NOT plug and play, like a Promise R8 or G-Tech Studio XL drive. The systems have to be configured.In addition, the QNAP will come with four 1G ethernet ports and two 10Gbase-T ports, so you can use these as well.
You may find it easier to deal with 1G or 10G connections. With the 10G ports, you will get more than enough bandwidth to edit 6K media (as well as 4K and 1080i HD).The maximum cable run for thunderbolt 3 is 2 meters currently, and there are no thunderbolt 3 expander cables or optical cables. You may find that simply purchasing a $800 Netgear 8 port 10G switch will make it much easier to have a realistic workflow for your four editors, as opposed to four guys huddled 6 feet away from each other at one common table.
The QNAP product line is quite amazing. Unlike Accusys Exasan, the QNAP does not require a MetaData server running XSAN or Tiger Share. Just click on GO> Connect To Server, and your QNAP will mount (once you configure the QNAP properly).
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com