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Hi Sarah,
If you’re using DVCPRO HD, you can likely be well served by an all Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) system, and save on the expense of a Fibre network.
Our EVO Storage Server is capable of being configured as an all GbE solution or a mix of GbE and Fibre if desired.
You can read more about it here:
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=12
MediaPros is one of our premier resellers in the UK, and although Tony might be out of the office apparently, you can always ring them and ask for James Dancer as well.
You can ring them on:
0208 400 9400
Best Regards,
-CaspianProduct Specialist
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Our EVO solution does not have an 8TB limit as we’re using HFS+ volumes for the Mac.
You can read more about it here:
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=12
Best Regards,
-CaspianProduct Specialist
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What OS are your client computers?
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Robert,
While you might do alright with this approach for testing connectivity, I would not recommend using the boot drive of your target server to share out space to other users, for the same reasons we tend to recommend people not record or edit audio and video on their OS drives.
The best place to find info on our globalSAN iSCSI Initiator is our own forum:
https://www.snsforums.com/index.php?showforum=14&s=b0dfffdb7e0bc8a6604b1b7cda38f8d6
And the best place to read more about our own Linux based storage server, specifically tuned for Audio & Video prodction is here:
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=12
We announced new configuration options at NAB, including the ability to configure an all Ethernet based EVO solution.
Best Regards,
-Caspian
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Cheers Bob!
-Caspian
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Mike,
If your 48TB Windows 2008 Server server is going to present any iSCSI or Fibre Channel Targets of it’s storage at the Block level, then you will need some sort of SAN management software in place to manage access to the storage, otherwise it’s file system will be corrupted by multiple users accessing it at the same time with nothing telling them when or where to write.
Software such as SANmp, which my company provides, can be used to manage many external, “non-proprietary” storage arrays connecting at the block level in a shared environment. You can download a free trial of it here:
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/trysanmp.php
If you are using this Windows Server as a dedicated NAS, then you do not need SAN management software, however, I would not expect SAN editing speeds from such a configuration.
Basically, at the block-level for SAN connectivity, you need some sort of SAN management software on all the client machines connecting to the storage.
Hope this helps, and good luck.
-Caspian
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What format are your source files?
EVO can provide a direct attached approach to shared storage if that’s of interest to you. SAN & NAS in the same box with modular Fibre & Ethernet options (including 10GbE). You could even edit the proxies from a NAS share on the same box if you wanted…
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=12
Urgent side projects are always fun!
Best Luck,
-Caspian
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Bob, I’m guessing on-line transaction processing.
Steve, while this is a SAN forum, it does cater to media production environments and handling many streams of large media files. Not sure you’ll find all of us speaking the same vernacular here, but there may be some database/sql heads about, I don’t speak for everyone though.
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As far as GUI Tools go:
On the Mac I like ChronoSync
https://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.htmlOn Windows I’ve found a similar feature set in ViceVersa:
https://www.tgrmn.com/-Caspian
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Ah, no worries, Mike, when I read your initial post, it sounded like this was your first foray into a shared storage environment for media production.
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Studio Network Solutions