Bob Zelin
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if you buy the Teranex Mini series of converters, these do not use wall wart power supplies. You can rack mount three of them side by size, and they can be powered with a normal AC cord, or you can use a Ethernet PoE switch to power them with an ethernet cable. As for your existing wall wart converters, go on to Amazon, and buy 1′ AC extension cords (they sell them in 10 packs for $15 bucks) and this will resolve this issue. Its crazy to see these thick 12″ AC cables with the wall wart hanging off of them, actually running the skinny little cable for the DC adaptor.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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my favorite was the Web Presenter for $495 (and $85 for the “confidence monitor” on the front).
Please tell me exactly what Newtek or anyone else now has to offer (yes, Newtek has incredible virtual sets, and has for some time) – but for a simple system for live streaming your show – using simple stuff like YouTube or Skype –
I mean, if this is not a “no brainer” than I don’t know what is. Set up a free account, spend $495, plug in whatever you own (like your GoPro camera, or super hi end camera, or production truck) and you are on the internet. No biggie.
This should put half the companies on the “upper south hall” out of business over night (if this product actually works).Bob Zelin
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I bet you are one of the first guys to consider moving to Symply.
Bob
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Hi Alan –
are you still using XSAN at Playboy ?Bob Zelin
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I am glad that you are having success with your QNAP 871T. QNAP continues to release amazing products at dirt cheap prices.
You are using your QNAP as near line storage for your aging EditShare, but what you will find is that even if you are using AVID Media Composer that requires bin locking, simply running Indiestor Mimiq on your edit system computers will allow you to use the QNAP as your main shared storage system. And of course, the 871T while wonderful, is the small unit. They have larger (not much more money) products like the TVS-EC1680U that are incredibly powerful, and perform as well as the most expensive shared storage systems out there today, all at 10G (and even 40G) speeds.
And as you know, the QNAP’s come with the 10G card pre installed, so just add a 10G switch from Netgear (and now Buffalo) and you have a super fast system that is dramatically faster than what you have in your aging system.With that said – today speed is everything. Observe the slow transfer from your EditShare to your QNAP as near line storage. It’s slow – perhaps painfully slow. You could add LTO tape backup. This is even slower than near line storage.
Now lets consider cloud backup, like Amazon S3. You think near line is slow, and LTO tape is slow – well, you aint’ seen nothing yet. This defines “the turtle”. Backing up or restoring ProRes, DNxHD, R3D, XAVC files to the cloud is justification for suicide. Basically, it’s totally useless in my opinion. It’s great for your QuickBooks Pro app, or any accounting, spreadsheet, sales data, or even h.264 and h.265 files, – but for ACTUAL VIDEO MEDIA – the cloud is totally useless, as if you actually needed something, because your place burned down, or was robbed, your clients would leave you anyway, because it would take you forever to download those files again (and it will take you forever to upload those files). A 100 Mb/sec uplink (which I bet you don’t have) is still painful to transfer 100 Gigs of Media – to transfer 1TB – forgetaboutit! Now try to transfer 48 TB – are you kidding me. In 2017, it’s completely unrealistic, unless you have the good fortune to have Google Fiber at your place that offers 800 Mb/sec upload speed (not even Disney has this).So what’s a cheap way to do this ? Buy a QNAP TX-800P, plug it into your 871T, clone your drive (which is still a slow process) and move this offsite to a storage facility. And when your place gets robbed or burns down, most of your media will be on this second redundant array. But what about your “on going ” new media. Well, that’s a process that you have to put into place in your company. With larger companies, you setup an off site backup, via a fiber (10G) cable in another building. Or make tapes (or redundant) backup array and move them off site.
But to realistically think that backing up 48TB to S3, and have it actually usable for you – well, that’s just silly.
Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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you do understand that you cannot hookup a thunderbolt 3 RAID array to a thunderbolt 2 computer like the current Mac Pro cylinder or iMac. If you have a Mac Pro 6,1, you need a product like the G-Tech Studio XL or Promise Pegasus R8 –
the Pegasus 3 R8 is for the new MacBook Pro only that has Thunderbolt 3.This applies to all future Thunderbolt 3 peripherals.
You get 1100 MB/sec with RAID 5 on any thunderbolt 2 RAID array that is currently available from countless manufacturers.
Bob Zelin
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if you buy 32 8TB drives, simply purchase two 16 bay RAID chassis, and run any simple cloning program
like Carbon Copy Cloner, Good Sync, Super Duper, Chronosync, etc.
How do you avoid buying two empty RAID chassis – simple answer, you don’t avoid this purchase.Bob Zelin
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But how can I structure my grid? it have dual 10GbE, so each of them to each workstation and a 1gb ethernet to laptop?
and can I (maybe) rebuild to 3 or 5 workstation?REPLY –
you buy a Netgear 10G switch. Each client computer has a single cable that goes to this switch. The switch also connects to the QNAP. The cable from the client computer can be 1G (native on the computer) or 10G (using a thunderbolt to 10G adaptor from Sonnet, Promise or ATTO). If you buy a Netgear XS708T (under $1000) you have one cable from the QNAP into the switch, and now have 7 10G ports left for 7 client computers. Need more client computers ? Buy a bigger switch, like the XS716T ($1600).and a importance question: Can we work same file simultaneously 2/3 workstation? if yes, how many workstation can work same files with this qnap?
YES, you can all edit the same media at the same time. If you have an 8 port switch, you can have all 7 computers editing the same media at the same time. If you have a 16 port switch, you can have 15 clients editing the same media at the same time.
If you need help setting this up, let me know. I can remote into you.
Bob Zelin
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buy a QNAP TVS-871T-16G.
you need that, 8 drives, and someone to help you get it setup.
This is within your budgetLet me know if you have any further questions.
Bob Zelin
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Hi John –
there are many commercially available NAS systems that are dirt cheap like QNAP and Synology that currently offer tiering. For a small workgroup (under 20 users, and typically 6 – 10 users), I don’t see the need for a complex system like this. Today, from what I observe, the demand for a shared storage environment is one that is easy for the customer to use, and very inexpensive. Drive arrays today are very inexpensive. To create a storage pool is commonplace, yet I continue to use static volumes. A single volume today with a 16 bay RAID enclosure can be 160 TB before RAID, and using inexpensive 8TB drives still allows this to be 128 TB. Connecting 5 – 20 users to a commercially available 10G NAS system (which 40G cards from Mellanox are already supported) is a no brainer, and does not require complex services.
And as for storage backup to a cloud site – the reality of putting 500 TB on a cloud site for your company is just completely unrealistic, even though many companies like Amazon are more than anxious to get your business to do so.Bottom line – this is video production, not Verizon, or Chase Manhattan bank. Keep it simple.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com