[Chris Dixon] “‘m loading media to a centralized server, as well as mirroring it to an external hard drive, both of which give me the same results.”
are you using gigabit ethernet to the server?
what connection type to the external hard drive?
I’m doing some sizeable xdcam hd projects but over fibre-channel raid5 arrays with no problems.
one thing that helps stability with xdcam and fcp is only having one sequence open at a time. have multiple ones open and beach ball crashes occur regularly.