[David Quan]

I’d say you’re being extremely presumptive and objectively rude, but that’s okay! I read your responses thoroughly prior to posting and knew more or less what to expect, but I’m willing to weather it in the interest of finding solutions.

The theory that lead to the MS510TX purchase was that a single 10G connection would max out with four people at 2.5G and the 2.5G x2 and 5G x2 covers those bases. But what I think you’re telling me is that editing is an intermittent enough process that four+ people maxing out a single 10G line at any given moment is a rarity, enough so that not allowing a single user to have a full 10G connection is actually harming them more by not giving them greater speeds for the moments they need it. In essence, we put up walls in the garage so each car would have just enough space, but the cars are never all there at once and we could really use the space for the occasional bus?

In practice, editing through 2.5/5G ports hasn’t given us a reason to doubt it, but if I can double the number of people running off of one 10G port without any discernible disadvantages, that would more than justify the cost.

I would of course be thrilled to put company revenue directly into the video production budget, but alas things don’t always go the way I’d like.

[David Quan]

Hey Bob,

I’ve actually already ordered additional adapters and another switch (we use the Netgear MS510TX and find it great at $350) knowing that we’ll need them. My question now is — knowing that I will have a need for additional connections — has a tertiary solution been found for the thunderbolt connection? I’m certainly not against upgrading one of our switches, though I’m wary of bottlenecking a single 10G connection (not sure if that’s justified by the data use of FCPX).

It’s definitely helpful to know that Mojave won’t likely solve the issue, so thanks for that.

[David Quan]

So I have four editors with direct connections to our TVS-1282T3 via thunder3 and most of them still report regular slowdowns on FCP 10.4.2. I’m considering rolling them back to 10.4 so we can make use of the thunder3 connections for the bulk of their work and let someone else on 10.4.2 handle changes and corrections. Any thoughts on that?

I know I could put them on 10G with the adapters since I already have two other editors on one port with a 10G switch (each getting 5G with two 2.5G ports open) and they’re running smoothly. I just know I’m going to end up with two+ more editors in a few weeks and will have a need for the direct thunder3 sooner than later. Would connecting thunder3 adapter into the QNAP and sending 10G out to another adapter/iMac Pro 10G accomplish anything?

My great hope is Mojave might resolve the issue…. though I’m not holding my breath.