Jordan Woods
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so you lost connection to the storage that sits behind your vmware host? is that what I’m understanding here? what storage do you have? Maybe I’m out of the loop on this one, but I think it would be good to have a bit more information.
-jw
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If you can successfully drop frames at that exact spot on your tape every time, it is not storage.
Dupe your tape to another tape, or change its format. Take your tape to a dub house and have it transferred to something else. HDV sucks, and your experience with dropped frames on that media is par for the course. There is a reason HDV only came into existence for a couple years or so, and is now on its way out.
-jw
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Diego,
What are your bandwidth requirements? what codec are you using in FCP? Are you expecting to share this media across all your editors at the same time?
-Jordan
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hmmm… to get this to be a legitimate fibre based SAN you will need a bit of leg work, often advised to be done by an industry professional that specializes in SAN networks. If it is just an ethernet network with an AFP share, no problem. But for your SAN you will need fibre and ethernet to all the bays, Qlogic fibre switch(or other), XSAN license per seat, and probably at least one more server. That is only the surface, there are books written about this stuff. Short answer, if you really need speed per bay, the XSAN setup will be your fastest option. You have to evaluate how much bandwidth per station you need and how much you are allocated to spend to get that. XSAN will be infinitely more expensive then turning on the AFP button.
If I were you, I would look into getting an integrator to help you on this.
-Jordan
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my guess, is that the experts are holding back for a bit with snow leopard and FCP 7… unless they have a test facility where they don’t mind breaking stuff.
🙂
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You need to have AFP running, and your volume shared in order to connect to it from the other machines on your ethernet network. There are other ways to do this, but this is by far the easiest.
-jw
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we will need more information, like compression, codec… etc.
But it, in the realm of SAN solutions, sounds like you could get away with a volume locking SAN like Fibrejet or other cheaper solutions. You might even be able to get away with an ethernet based solution, but I don’t know your bandwidth requirements. Post it and we’ll figure out what works.
-jw
Senior Systems Engineer
Active Storage Labs
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It is late 2009 right now. Your machine was purchased in mid 2005. What you buy to work with your machine will be outdated. The fact that you are buying a PCIX based card will be a waste of money if your computer takes a dive.
I would invest in a newer computer and look to any of the sponsors of the Cow for storage. There are hundreds of options for direct attached storage that can do HD uncompressed, and cheaply. To the left and right of this screen you should see at least a couple people with solutions for you.
-jordan
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joe-
look up this process on Xsanity. I think some people posted a lengthy bit on this exact subject.
-jordan
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This client has a lot of decisions coming up. Most of them center around how much they are willing to spend. There are probably tons of upgrades that have to happen to all the machines and server room. Another big point to bring up with the editors and the post sup, how do they feel about moving from years working in file level locking to volume level?
Look at the cost of upgrading their XSAN vs buying and installing a Facilis.
-jordan