As tough as some AMA is…h264, I’ve had great success with others.(prores) Infact I’m using a series of Thunderbolt/usb drives AMA’ing
a total of some 20 TBs of AMA and it runs fine…but it is mostly prores.
You unfortunately have picked one of the heaviest codecs to try it with. (R3D) Without a red rocket card, I wouldn’t expect much of anything within avid…and I’m not sure Avid recognizes the Rocket.
R3d’s are big beasts. They push the limits of most boxes in their raw form.
I have a Windows box running MC, DS and Resolve, with a Cubix and 3 total graphics cards. With this setup, Resolve will get real time playback on the r3d,at half good debayer, but it doesn’t take much to slow that down.
Glenn