[Frank Gothmann]

Storeopen is at 2.1.0. It’s significantly better than 2.0 and I haven’t even tried anything before that release.
So, yes, upgrade and see if that helps. We have the same SAS card and the same tape drive and no issues with 2.1.0.

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What version of Storeopen are you using? Also, what SAS card?
I have not seen that type of behavior with LTFS. Copying 1.5 TB… won’t work. Not enough space on the cartridge.
LTFS on the Mac isn’t very nice. Whenever you are copying to the tape you should leave things alone – completely. Don’t try to open any directories on the tape volume while it’s copying or do anything with it. The finder will try to generate thumbnail previews from files located elsewhere than the current tape position which throws the finder into spinning beachball mode. On Win the preview generation is disabled for LTFS which makes it a much smoother experience.

Simply copy, past and let it do its thing. In any case, the mapping of the drive should never go missing and I have never experienced that. Try HPs tape tools and check for issues and errors with it. That would be my first tip to find the reason for those issues. This is definitely not normal behavior, there may be an issue with the drive or the card.

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Please explain the setup a bit more. The dropped frames occour where? On your machine (which, I assume has the storage attached, ie. is the host) or on the machines accessing the storage via 1GB Ethernet?
While green drives are very likely to drop out of a raid sooner or later, their performance should be good enough for a couple of Prores streams, especially in larger raid setups.
What are you connecting to with the 10GB card? Have you checked your client’s network bandwith? Are you running Qmaster on the same network? That’s where I would start digging. Jumbo frames on?

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[Craig Seeman] “I certainly think it’s possible a third party may take advantage of this. There’s at least the possibility of a 10Gb solution that might be easier than going the Thunderbolt to 10Gb Ethernet solution.”

Nevertheless, you’re limited to the no. of TB ports on your serving machine -1 as it also has to connect to storage. There are no TB network switches. So, in case of the new Macpro that’s five potential render slaves (if you have nothing else attached apart from storage, that is).
With five machines, you are unlikely to saturate even 1GB ethernet for render jobs so… why bother? A 1GB ethernet cable is a few dollars.

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Episode, Pf Farmer, Rhozet (PC) plus lots of other network render tools are working just fine. Qmaster is a total mess. Funny thing it, it actually works better with distributed AE renders than with Compressor (which is equally flawed as Qmaster).
All other tools make a lot more sense in terms of stability and a lot less prone to bringing your entire network down (Qmaster running on a network makes it virtually unusable for anything else) plus their are cross platform; building a render farm out of Macs isn’t very economical.

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[Oliver Peters] “1. Does 6 Thunderbolt2 pots on the Mac Pro “Tube” mean bandwidth of 1×20, 3x 20 or 6x20Gbps?”

it has three controllers so it’s 3×20. Of course, the interesting question is what happens when you plug-in a TB 1 device, or use it a part of a TB device chain. Very likely that the whole port switches to slower TB1 mode.

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Oh, I agree with you 100 per cent. A large part of this is squeezing more money out of people, and shorten the intervals till the next squeeze is due.
And yep, I am dropping Apple one machine at a time. We’re down to two Mac Pros from 8 early last year and we won’t buy any new Apple stuff. We switched NLEs, too. Guess what, I live, quite happily, and I am kicking myself for not looking into alternatives much earlier.
For video guys this machine may work, for 3D, scientific computing… I don’t see it. Which takes away another chunk from an already small market. The server guys have left the playroom quite a while ago and nobody from that end wants a Mac anymore.
Everything has a breaking point. So far, Apple has been lucky in their choices to take things away left right and forth, people still bought into it. Let’s see how it goes this time.

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Neither does Bluefish (for the Mac, for the PC they do), so “most” capture card makers means half of them. And there are quite a few issues with Media Express from BMD. But, sure, it’s their responsibility to fix what others broke in the first place.

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That’s great, but he’s not using “most capture cards” or AJA but a Motu v4HD and there is no capture app that comes with it.

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Are we talking monitoring or “capture device”?
Because apart from Firewire, there is no capturing inside FCPX with any card, not MOTU, not AJA, not BMD not Bluefish.

MOTU lists the drivers for your box as compatible with X, just not for capturing because X simply can’t and never will. Nothing MOTU can do about that.
But hey, that’s evolution for you.
BTW, if the driver isn’t TB aware and you’re getting a new Mac you can put the box in the bin because the driver won’t work, even with a FW to TB adapter.

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