[Jay Bowman]

David,

Two years ago we replaced our Apple XSAN with an EditShare Energy 48 TB shared storage solution. We integrated a Blade G8124 24-port 10GbE switch for connectivity to seven 2010/2011 Mac Pro towers via Myricom 10GbE cards. We recently replaced our old Mac Pros with 2014 Mac Pros and a few iMacs. We currently use the mLogic mLink thunderbolt expansion chassis to house the Myricom cards. EditShare, Mac Pro and Myricom are all optimized. I have been running speed tests and have found that write speeds are well over 550 MB/sec, but read speeds suffer at times. Meanwhile, the Myricom driver says it is experiencing no issues when it runs its test at boot-up. All systems seem to report optimal functionality but we continue to have latency issues when working with just a few streams of FCPX optimized DVCPro HD 100 Mb/sec video. Have you or anyone you know of bridged the gab between TB or TB2 to 10GbE successfully?

Jay Bowman
Post Production Manager
Abernethy Media Professionals