[Chris Crichlow]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the response. I was just adding to it as it was relative to the discussion that was going on, which various others had contributed to. No problem for future postings.

Prior to calling SNS, I wanted to see if there were things that others had tried that I hadn’t. My SMB signing is already off and I have the drivers installed, this was one of the first things I did in setup of the system to enable the connection. What I’m trying to work out is where the throttling is happening and why this is affecting FCPX so heavily. My colleagues at Apple didn’t have an answer, so I thought I’d reach out to various people in the pro community who use these interfaces in their workflows.

I’ll direct my query to SNS.

Thanks.

C

[Chris Crichlow]

Hi All,

Hope all is well!

This forum has been a pretty solid well of knowledge for me when trying to work out a little conundrum of my own. Wondering if you guys can help!

I’m currently looking after a few event spaces and 2 edit suites. I’m having crazy issues with FCPX (v10.4) on my two edit machines, linked back to an EVO RAID5 NAS. My edit suites are running Mac Pros (10.13.4, 2.7Ghz 12 Core Intel Xeon E5, 64GB 1866Mhz DDR3), connected to a SanLink2 (all connected interfaces are running on High Throughput) which then leads to an EVO RAID5 NAS over fibre (10GbaseSR, 9000MTU).

Bear with me… This part becomes a little convoluted. The edit suites are fed video files from two other MacPros of the same spec which are ingesting live 1080p/50 3G-SDI feeds, converting them over an AJA I/O 4K interface to thunderbolt using Softron MovieRecorder. The feeds are then pushed down as ProRes LT to the EVO servers over SanLink2 units.

The EVO is segmented into various partitions – one of which houses the local files and the other partitions are for the edit suites (projects storage, cache, etc).

Since our upgrade to High Sierra, and no other infrastructure changes, FCPX has been lagging and beachballing beyond belief! I get continual hangs and regular beachballing when editing and I’m totally unable to get to the bottom of it.

I’ve attached my AJA System Test for one partition, the rest only vary by 20 -/+ MB. At this point, I’m at a bit of a dead end though. Any ideas anyone?

Hope you can help!

Thanks

Chris