[Jeffrey Baker]

Thanks for the info Bob, a bit harsh, but thanks.
I’ll be using a different forum in the future if I have further questions.
Jeff Baker
New Media
Smith College

[Jeffrey Baker]

So it’s an iMac with thunderbolt and a 2010 Mac Pro with FireWire. I don’t think most of our editors can figure out network storage. But they do understand having there own external raid drive, and that if they somehow got synchronized each night, it wouldn’t matter which workstation they sat at. Also edit speed wouldn’t be compromised.

But I’m not sure how each raid unit attached to there own macs could stay synced with those software packages as I didn’t think they worked that way. But I’ll take a look. I have used chronosynch in the past for general backup.

When I looked into the network storage options, it seemed like special iscsi connections or 10g Ethernet was needed. And that’s just too expensive for our little higher Ed edit suite budget.

Did thunderbolt to thunderbolt data transfer between systems ever make it to market? Our old Mac Pro might not have thunderbolt, but that work as a shared single raid drive solution as well.