[Mark Westcott]

Chose to design (build) this instead of turnkey because of scalability and cost. SAS system will allow for the cheap expansion of storage, as this house has a data production rate of about 2TB per month. The cost of turnkey was almost double what this system came to, when factoring in expansion. I know support is what will be needed once this system is built, (management too) as they wont have in-house personnel to deal with this, or the means to self manage. But, I failed to mention that I have ties to the company, and that I’m not just installing than leaving. The topology is really easy to understand, if needed to be taught. I must say that if we just took what was given, than innovation, or growth, to solutions wouldn’t ever happen.

I’m sure this system will work (at least for the storage aspect) as its the same as used in enterprise. I guess I should have been more clear with what I was asking for. I was just wondering more on how have peoples experience have been editing over a network system. What problems they’ve encountered?

Based on this design, all stations would have a gigabit link to the server, no bottlenecks due to increased access (as the storage is connected through the 10Gbps links to the switch). Kind of the same principal as in your “Build your own affordable SAN” article, but using 10Gbps links (instead of an aggregated 4x1Gbps links) & a custom server, instead of a MacPro. So in theory it should be possible. What I’m wondering is if you’ve come across anything that would hinder this theoretical plausibility?

Based on a ProRes LT edit codec, do you forsee/experienced any problems in the systems you’ve built with editshare, Bob or Jason?

Thanks, I appreciate your guys help BTW