Jordan Woods
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reseat the upper blower. if it still won’t come online… it’s dead. this doesn’t surprise me on old equipment.
you need to check your fibre card as well. maybe change PCI slots. is it an Apple LSI card… etc—
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I totally agree that most companies pray on the lack of knowledge. I usually advocate calling integrators to get information, or speaking with the technicians, not salesmen. The technicians will steer you in the right direction, because in the end they get the phone calls if something fails.
I’m not a salesman, so I don’t post based on price. I hate that. I post based on what works. It bugs me to no end that customers are pushed toward a solution that they don’t need because somebody wanted better “points” at the end of the month. If a cow member mentions fibre and they specifically want to do an uncompressed workflow, why not introduce him to redundancy, reliability, and performance?
-Jordan
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with my old patch bay, breaking the “normal” was my best friend for ETT.
-jw
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yea… but if you want a bit more reliability in your unit, say, if you actually need to make a layoff to tape on a deadline and you need to have your unit at 100% stability, try the following:
https://www.getactivestorage.com
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TV Tools Oy in Finland is very knowledgeable too. Not Norway, but closer.
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The above string is interesting, but I come from the world of XSAN, (correctly built XSANs). If you are really doing 2k and 4k, not just some basic redcode 2k/4k compression and actually the real 2k/4k uncompressed workflow then you are getting paid serious coin. And if somebody is going to pay you do work in uncompressed 2k or 4k, then you can afford to have a kick ass system. I like to have one central volume, not many like Facilis (unless they have their file level system selling now?).
Fibre is expensive, no doubt, but it is the best for high end post. People complain about XSAN maintenance, but they are the ones who built it wrong, or they messed with it. Current XSAN installations that are actually built correctly by experienced integrators don’t have problems, their SANs run for years. I came across a XSAN metadata controller that hadn’t been turned off in 425 days. AMAZING! (that is a rarity for sure), but still proves that XSAN can be a stable and high end product. (I don’t work for Apple, am just used to their product and the results)
Talk to SANtech in Irvine. They are the best XSAN installers bar none. Since they are a smaller band of hard core engineers with less overhead than the average reseller they can offer competitive pricing. If you talk to them they can lessen your headache. Don’t talk to the vendors directly unless you are sure of your workflow path. An integrator like SANtech.tv will be less biased and will help you better.
-jw
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It’s the whole XSAN and upgrding the entire system that they are sitting on. I totally understand this, since xsan was at its peak in 10.4.11 with XSAN 1.4.2. Too bad you can’t grow that system… Vince— you will have to speak to the powers that be about upgrading that system soon. I will place money your storage is running on 2-3 years. You will begin to see servers fail, drives fail, and controllers… in short order you’ll ready for that LHi.
-jordan
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I agree with Bob, but try to find a sales person that is as “non-vendor” specific as possible… maybe that way you would get a chance to see all your choices, because I think in your scenario you might have a very large variety.
post your whole workflow (compression, frame size, etc…) and budget. you’ll have your answers in seconds if you drop that info.
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this is IF he used the atto card to create the stripe. There is no information on the post as to what type of storage is hanging off the back of the PPC. If it is a fibre attached array, that’s a different story… if it’s a “dumb” chassis stuck on a raid card, then true he will have some issues-
-jw
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the thing is that it is not the metasan that would need repair but the HFS+ volume underneath. taking it out of metasan and running a utility that would repair it would be the key. often times i’ve seen disk warrior or some variation there of work, but everyone has their preference for a good repair tool. of course that has to run with the volume outside of metasan and mounted on ONLY ONE machine.