Matt Stone
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Hi Andrew,
I can send competitive pricing on any of these options. Send me an email when you get a chance.
Talk soon,
MattMatt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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If you are only connecting your new iMac, Thunderbolt direct attached storage is going to be your most cost effective option. Something like a Maxx Digital 64TB ThunderRAID2 or 64TB G-Tech G-Speed XL will work fine. 64TB at RAID5 will mount as 56TB, so two of them would do the trick.
If you are connecting multiple workstations we have options for that too.
We are running a promo on the G-Tech drives, contact us for more details.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Hi Noah,
There is tons of valuable storage information here on the cow. Many companies that advertise here, such as myself, can offer 50TB of storage. You posted this in the NAS forum, are you wanting to have a small workgroup or just directly attaching this storage to your mac pro? (old or new mac pro?)
16 bay with 64TB RAID6 is a good starting point, but with that many episodes simply going over that 500GB estimate by 50GB-100GB can dramatically increase the amount of storage needed.
Let us know if we can help.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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If you can record 60 min to 128GB card, then 8 full cards is 1TB, which is 8 hours of footage/per TB
An 8TB 4 bay RAID5 will mount as a 6TB volume. You never want to fill it completely full, so let’s say you cram a maximum of 5TB of footage on there is will be 40 hours.
You mentioned shooting 200 hours, so you will need quite a bit of storage…
You would need a minimum of 25TB usable to shoot 200hrs.Keep in mind this is just raw data, no editing or project files.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Hi Scott,
We help people with their workflow in your situation all the time. Depending how much you are shooting at once you can have a smaller ‘field drive’ that has USB3 connections Neil recommended (which is cheaper than Thunderbolt), and a larger Thunderbolt drive for your office.
You do write “Has anyone had experiences with these drives? A friend of mine told me that if one dies, the whole thing doesn’t die, you just lose 25 percent meaning one disk if you have 4 2 TB drives. Sucks since XQD cards are not cheap.”
Yes, and what your friend said is partially correct, but this depends on how you configure the RAID. With 4x 2TB drives – set up as a RAID5 your 8TB of total data becomes a 6TB volume. You basically loose 1 drive out of the gate. This has a parity of the files across the 4 drives which will allow you to loose one drive, and ideally your data remain ‘safe’
Keep in mind your Gtech 8TB RAID you were looking at has NO redundancy, so if 1 of those 2 4TB drives die, you will loose your data.
Feel free to reach out to our office for other questions – we sell everything you mentioned.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Matt –
You have to use activeadmin CLI and do an ‘activeadmin –d beeper disable’
If you do not have Active Admin software.. I think it is still on the active storage website.
Hope this helps
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Not at this time, they went very quick. We will be getting more soon.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Currently the Pocket Cinema Camera records Apple ProRes. RAW recording capabilities are supposed to be unlocked through a firmware update. Still a great little camera for the price.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Hi Jon,
There are a few companies on here that offer shared storage solutions, ours is called Final Share. We use a Mac Pro as a server computer, which makes it very easy to manage adding or deleting users, changing permissions, and so on… No learning curve trying to figure out a new OS. Inside the Mac Pro is a 10Gig Ethernet NIC that hooks up to our switch, and on the front of the switch you can connect up to 24 users via GbE.
We offer phone support, remote support, and have some of the best customer support in the business.
As Eric said most of these systems were created to share video, so these should be more than enough for your needs.
Give us a call for more details, and pricing on a Final Share System.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
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Maxx Digital has a 4 bay that has on board RAID 0,1, and 5 capabilities. It is a desktop version that has a quad interface on the back – eSATA, FW800, FW400, and USB 2.0
It can be seen here EvoVR
Email me at mattstone@maxxdigital.com if you have any other questions.
Matt Stone
Maxx Entertainment Digital
3189 Redhill Ave. Unit B
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Telephone:(714) 374-4944
Fax: (714) 374-3404