[David Norden]

Have a look at our in-developement software, it will let you do what you are looking for, with a setup such as Bob describes, for a lot less than upgrading your Editshare…

Xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

All the best

David

[David Norden]

We actually have an Editshare, but its just sitting in a corner…

Anyway, what I will confess is the biggest difference is that when you build your own system, you need to spend more time on maintaining it. We did everything from scratch, meaning, we installed a Small-Tree ethernet card with 6-ports, installed the HBA, currently an ATTO R680, we took a Supermicro JBOD chassi with 45 bays, and installed drives, currently Hitachi 2TB SAS 2.0 drives.

You could make it easier for you by buying a more complete system, such as those from MAXX Digital and others, and just install the software..

The upside is really that we have been able to scale up as our need grows so currently we have three servers, with about 100 TB of storage. Doing that with the Editshare would have bankrupted us..

Otherwise, working with xMcore is very similar to working with Editshare, APART from one thing that we are working on now.. We dont yet have bin-locking, wich you do have in Editshare.

This demands a slightly different approach, where editors work from a folder where their bins are protected and then move that bin to another unprotected folder if they want someone else to be able to work with that bin. Mostly we just open another editors bin and drag-copy the stuff we want to our own bins.

all the best

David

[David Norden]

Hi Ted, impressive work, and documentation.

We have done this for OS X, so you might be interested in our software xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

I would also like to get in touch with you off the list, for a few questions… You will find my mail address on the blog.

Best Regards

David

[David Norden]

Joey, of you are doing your own setup, and it includes Avid workstations, you might want to look at this, xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

It will install on a Mac and turn it into a shared storage server for Media Composer projects and media.

But maybe you are just looking for a fast NAS?

all the best

David

[David Norden]

Hi Elan. This is our setup on one of our three servers:

One Supermicro 45-bay SAS 2 (6GB) chassi, with 16 Hitachi 2TB SAS drives in a RAID6 on an ATTO R680 card, in a Mac Pro. In that Mac Pro we also have a Small Tree 6-port ethernet card, link aggregated (or bonded) to a single link. That connects to our 48 port Procurve switch, 1gb ethernet.

The raided drive is about 25 TB, with reads of about 1000 MB/S

For sharing that drive over our network we use our own software, now in beta-testing as a commercial product. Have a look at xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

We don’t do uncompressed, and I suspect you need a 10 gb ethernet connection to maintain the kind of bandwidth that you need for that.. Small Tree sells those as well.. You need speed everywhere, from the RAID to the server to the switch to the workstations, so while our setup works fine for compressed HD (DNXHD) what will work for uncompressed is another story..

So setting something like this up your on your own is possible in theory, but in reality, it takes a lot of testing and time and hair pulling… But thats why you have people like Bob Zelin and others that have already done the hair pulling 😉

all the best

David

[David Norden]

Hi! This is perhaps for you, it lets Avid users share media and projects from a Mac pro as a server. The software takes care of the databases so that they dont became corrupt and crash your Avids…

xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

Its a piece of software that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid Media Composer

All the best

David

[David Norden]

This is for avid, but perhaps interesting for you…
xmcorebeta.wordpress.com
Its a software we are developing that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid.

/David

[David Norden]

This might interest you, even if you are on Final Cut right now…
xmcorebeta.wordpress.com
Its a software we are developing that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid.

Good luck/David

[David Norden]

This might interest you (I hope…)
xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

Its a software we are developing that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid.

All the best

David

[David Norden]

Perhaps you would be interested in this:
xmcorebeta.wordpress.com

Its a software we are developing that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid.

All the best

David