[Matt Geier]

Hi Christian and Robbie,

I’m going to chime in quick on this to re-state something about the speeds and feeds of 1Gb vs 10Gb Ethernet.

1 megabyte (MB) = 8 megabit (Mb)
100 megabyte (MB) = 800 megabit (Mb)

File Transferring / Upload Download

1Gb Ethernet – Throughput can been seen anywhere from 90-120MB (Mega Bytes) per second. Depending on how you’re using the wire and if it’s got TCP overhead to worry about like what you’ll see with AFP, SMB, NFS… expect those lines with Jumbo Frames to run anywhere from 70-90MB/sec.
— Without some overhead like an O/S offers — The wire can run line rate….think iSCSI for example.

10Gb Ethernet – Throughput can been seen anywhere from 250-350MB (Mega Bytes) per second. Depending on how you’re using the wire and if it’s got TCP overhead to worry about like what you’ll see with AFP, SMB, NFS… expect those lines to run anywhere from 250-350MB/sec.
— Without some overhead like an O/S offers — The wire can run line rate….think iSCSI for example.

(Performance is based on your configuration of the networking, applications, hardware involved, etc…)

Each of these assumes a single user connection at any one time.
For example if you have 2 users running a 10GbE link. Each one doing a file transfer at the same time, the server would need to be able to have a pipe big enough for both to get full bandwidth to the RAID (700MB/sec incoming) at once and then additionally, the RAID (whatever it is) would need to be able to have a write speed to the disks in excess of 700MB sec.

Video Editing in Ethernet

If you are intending to edit video over this same network, make sure everything is set up for real time (which is not necessarily based on an amount of “raw bandwidth”)

Example; If you want to support 1 x Video per user at 36MB/sec, then a single 1Gb connection to the desktop will suffice. Equally so, 1GbE connections on the server will suffice as well….. If however you want to run 4 x Videos per user at 36MB/sec each, now you have to consider 10GbE because you need 144MB/sec at each workstation. If you have x 2 workstations then you’ll need a total throughput of 288MB/sec at your server and RAID to support each editor working with 4 videos at the same time (based on 36MB/sec x 4 x 2).

Another Caveat: Make sure your Server is adequate in configuration and has proper support for the users connected to it, and additionally make sure the chosen RAID can truly support 8 x Videos of (Insert Format Here) at the same time…..

Most of the time I hear people having problems with these networks is because they don’t have their Ethernet configured the way it should be or tuned at each workstation optimally, or their Server and / or Storage is inadequate to support the entire workflow….or all of the above.

Regardless of who you work with, make sure they know what their solution will start at, and max at in the first install, and additionally how well it can scale over time…..scaling is important, sometimes you’ll need to scale “performance” and sometimes you’ll need to scale your “capacity”

Good luck.

Hopefully that helps!

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Hi Kevin, Andrew and all,

Sorry to have to hear about this kind of experience. I’m also sorry to hear you may have lost critical data.

To your comment about ZFS support for Mac OS X –

There may be an option for you to consider in the future.

I don’t know if anyone here has experience with it, but I’m sure this will spark some interest and we will soon find out!
I didn’t see it mentioned through any of these threads here, and I looked around the COW in general but didn’t find much info on it.
I felt it relevant to mention to you and others to look into.

There is a company from Colorado called Tens Complement. – https://www.tenscomplement.com

The company was founded by a former Apple filesystem and OS engineer named Don Brady. Someone who previously worked on the abandoned internal Apple project to port ZFS to Mac OS X. (I believe this internal project was closed off by Apple back in the 2009.)
— I’m not the official word though…Only Apple knows what they are up to.

I did want to link to some interesting article reads regarding this project to bring ZFS to Mac OS X by Don Brady

(older March 2011)
https://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-making-its-way-to-mac-os-x.ars

(more recent Jan 31 2012)
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/zfs-comes-to-os-x-courtesy-of-apples-former-chief-zfs-architect/

I did some further research and found the Tens Complements website where they are doing ZEVO (the name of the product for ZFS support on Mac OS X (Lion and Snow Leopard Supported)

You can find it here – https://tenscomplement.com/ – It seems like a very reasonable price point for a ZFS solution option with Mac OS X support.

For additional Archive and Backup –
I know LTO is still popular. You might look at the Tolis Group or one of their authorized reseller partners who offer the BRU products for Archive and Backup solutions as well. https://www.tolisgroup.com

Perhaps this will be helpful to some of those out here who come across this thread for reference.

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Hi Sam.

Thanks – That will help folks to know what you’re running.

Perhaps another piece of information would be to ask you what type of format the files are currently in now?

All you said was you wanted to convert “video files” to a .ogg format….but what are they before you want to convert them?

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Jay,

Sorry for the late response back to you.

WordPress is very SEO friendly by way of the program anyway. Make sure you go into the settings and look to turn on all the goodies that publicize the site and do other things to help it get recognition for the defaults.

Here’s a list of plugins you can look at that may prove useful to you for getting better search results;

By Name of Plugin:

Google XML Sitemaps

SEO Slugs

WordPress SEO
This is probably the best comprehensive SEO Plugin for WordPress I’ve found and use it frequently…

All in One SEO Pack
This is a really simply one… I don’t use it much though.

WPtouch
This allows for the wordpress site to be displayed on “Mobile devices”

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Alex,

Sorry it took me so long here.

Whomever said to use the Google Maps API to code your locations links on the side was a correct response.

However, unless you’re already familiar with the Google Maps API (or any API programming) it will not do you much good unless you want to learn to code with it. There are some resources that Google provides developers such as this one @ https://code.google.com/ if you want to take a shot and do it on your own.

Otherwise, if you’d like, I’m happy to help, too.

Just connect with me via a friend request on the Creative Cow, or LinkedIN (best ways).

I’m no expert on the Google Maps API by any means, but I am familiar with custom coding, and develop for myself using various languages.

Thanks,

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Hi Sam,

What operating system are you using?
There are several applications (free and paid) that will work well for you.

Let us know. You might get some more specific feedback as to a good file converter or other tool you can use.

Thanks,

Matt Geier
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(Creative Design Workflow Consultant)
(Social Media Networks Consultant)
(Technical Video Industry Sales Consultant)

[Matt Geier]

Hi Christopher,

Bob speaks the truth (as usual)

Small Tree does have a solution that fits your bill to a tee. Others as well like he mentioned.

Just give Small Tree a call and someone will get you in touch to the person you need to speak with. Plan to have a discussion about “Titanium” the self contained shared storage NAS product.
It’s very high performance for multiple editors and can do high bandwidth and high real time video stream counts as well. Of course depending on your actual real world / real work needs you may prefer one or the other performance measurements more.

They’d be happy to help, I know it!

You can also shoot over to the Small Tree forum here on the Creative Cow here and inquire directly as well. https://forums.creativecow.net/smalltree

Small Tree will need to know where you are located so sending them an email from their website wouldn’t hurt, or reaching out to someone on that forum directly would be okay too!! (There’s also the Small Tree website option for inquires)

You’ll be very impressed. I have no doubt!

Thanks,

Matt Geier
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(Creative Design Workflow Consultant)
(Social Media Networks Consultant)
(Technical Video Industry Sales Consultant)

[Matt Geier]

Hi Alex,

I think you are saying you want to “plot many” locations, and not just a “single” location;

Here’s more instruction;

https://maps.google.com/help/maps/getmaps/plot-multi.html

Hope that helps!

Matt

[Matt Geier]

Hi Marcus,

Just curious.
Were you able to get this working the way you intended to?

Matt Geier
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[Matt Geier]

Hey Paul,

Thanks for posting more info. My pleasure to share my opinion.

I think you should certainly stop by the Small Tree booth at NAB and see what you can see there.

DPX sequences can run in real time on Mac OS and equally on a Windows or Linux system as well, and do so over 10Gb Ethernet.
The bandwidth of 10bit sequences like DPX are in the area of 130-160 MB/sec per sequence…..10GbE is certainly the way to go if you want to work with Ethernet. I would start being careful about the choice of hardware to play the video out over the network then as well.

The real trick to getting it working to go real time, using uncompressed, all the time, and always being able to support “X” number of sequences concurrently.

Depending on your specific needs….maybe you only need 1 happening, or maybe you need 3 or more happening at once…

Personally I would not set my heart on being comfortable with the use of something like an internal software RAID configuration to get this working the way you’ll expect it to either.
Software RAID configurations that I’ve been privy to, always add a lot of extra operating overhead to the operating system and the overall design of the configured system.

Software RAIDS tend to be inefficient for good, sustainable and reliable real time capabilities…….not saying something doesn’t exists…..

I’d be curious to hear some other opinions on this software RAID idea and running uncompressed real time to see what they think, or if they concur.

I’m sure at NAB this year, you’ll find the answer you’re looking for.

I highly encourage you (and anyone) to stop at Small Tree’s booth to discuss these types of topics. Ethernet is certainly viable for you.

I know some amounts of uncompressed video streams are supported on the new shared storage solution as well.

It runs a Linux based operating system BTW…..

I have no doubt you’ll be impressed with the response you’d get!
I hear that the booth is going to be pretty spectacular this year as well!

I’m looking forward to watching this thread develop for you.

Thanks again!

Matt