Jordan Woods
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No, Here is the simple solution:
Buy a fibre channel RAID and a 60 meter fibre cable. Stick the RAID in your rack in the other room, run the cable to your onsite mac pro and be done.
OR
But a Geffen extender, or something like that, put a monitor and keyboard in the studio, control your MP remotely and plug the esata boxes into your MP.
and
put your G5 in the recycle bin.
-jw
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What is the setup for this NAS? You have 4 direct attached volumes on a single server pushing out over AFP to your client stations?
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I’ll wait for Bob to chime in on this one 🙂
Icy docks and the latter… AAAAAHHHHH, run! If you are a serious video professional that takes work serious and your data serious, your infrastructure has to be taken serious as well. Buying hard drives from Frys and sticking them into your Icy Dock is just asking for data loss. Real solutions are expensive for a reason, because they are tested and guaranteed to work, with minimal chance of failure.
Here is the easy part, state your budget for shared storage and your expectations of what you need this to do. If this is known, you will find your answer. If you plan on a minimum of $3000, I think you will be moderately satisfied.
-jw
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so the grey screen… I will take that as a kernel panic. It is where your screen is washed over with a “grey” color and tells you to shut down the machine. In my experiences this has occurred mainly because of a hardware conflict. This can be many things, sometimes RAM, sometimes a failing motherboard, but mostly it has always been a failing/failed PCI card.
The direct attached solution is great until there is a problem. You might have RAID safety for failing drives, but you don’t have redundant controllers. You are at the mercy of that lone ATTO card. If the card has a catastrophic failure you might have a serious issue. I would call ATTO immediately to see if you can get the drives back online. Only if you have Seagate 1.5TB drives from a year ago could you have 7/8 true failures.
-jw
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how long would this sit before you went back to it? If you let a hard drive sit the head settles and can stick to the disk, when you go to fire up the drive the head breaks and your data is toast. I suppose longer storage options might include LTO4. I’ll let others chime in on this as I’m not the best archivist person, I just know that a bunch of hard drives is not the way to go for long term data storage, if powered off. (long term = 6months or more on a shelf powered off without touching it)
-jw
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iSCSI won’t do 2k DPX uncompressed, 10gigE might not even do 2k DPX uncompressed. Currently it is either direct attached or if SAN then fibre (for that sustained data rate).
-jw
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I would have to say this might be a bad idea. What will happen is that you will have a san built for IT and document sharing, not video. If this will be stornext you will be required to tune it manually to work with video. It does not come out of the box for video like XSAN does. I don’t have anything against Stornext, it just takes some hand holding to make it rock like you expect it to.
A couple questions: What is your setup? How many editors do you have? What is your bandwidth requirements? Also, why do you think your xsan is dependent upon Open Directory; do you mean DNS? Open Directory is a means to manage users and permissions, not your XSAN. XSAN can function just fine without Open Directory running, just takes special care to watch permission issues.
I would fight to separate the SANs. Keep your video data in your world where you can keep a close eye on it. In my experience, IT really doesn’t care if video drops frames. (just my experience)
-Jordan
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sustained uncompressed 2k is a big expectation. How many stations do you want accessing this uncompressed 2k? To sustain 2 to 3 streams of 2k uncompressed with Active Storage you would need 2 XRAIDs. Other manufacturers will have different specifications or numbers of chassis needed to make your expectation. That being said, you will find the price will begin to vary drastically since uncompressed 2k is a very big format.
-Jordan
Senior Systems Engineer
Active Storage Labs
Los Angeles, CA -
I believe your issue is with Metasan, not the Xserve RAIDs. You should contact Tiger and ask what they are doing with their filesystem to work with spotlight in Leopard.
They might have some suggestions on asset management software that works well with their software.
-Jordan
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I think it is mainly coming from the fear of the “filesystem.” If you see the volume on the desktop you are good, and any given restart could mean that it won’t come back up. (these are unfounded) but so many people are gun shy from earlier experiences with most first version filesystems (read: XSAN 1.0, early Metasan, Facilis 1.0, etc…) not so much HFS+ All of these have gotten much better, but the fear of past experience lingers.
-jw