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Trevor,
It’s likely that your previous LTO 5 model came with some software that wrote LTFS tapes using a free software that used to ship with HP and Tandberg drives. Does that same software not work with this new LTO-7 drive? I Googled it and found HP has the HPE StoreOpen software still available for download. That may work with your drive.
Two issues I found with LTO tapes written through free drag-and-drop software is that there seems to be no verification of what’s written. And, LTO tapes written like with these softwares, take a very long time to mount and extract data from. As a test you could try your old LTO-5 tapes written with your older software, and check that retrieval is easy and speedy.
Re: Yoyotta vs Canister, yes there is a price difference and Canister will probably cost more since it’s annual, but even Yoyotta could charge for future upgrades.
Whichever you decide, its money well spent as easy cataloging and retrieval of tapes is as important as backing up. Whichever you choose, I can also suggest a really good cataloguing software Diskcatalogmaker which lets you create browsable, searchable, offline catalogs of LTO tapes.
Neil
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“Check that you have selected “tag frames with clip name” and “export frames with tag name” in the export settings. You can find these options in the “Output name” tab of the export settings.”
Where are these settings exactly?
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What’s the make and model of your LTO drive? Some LTO drives come with all the required software.
But even if you don’t have it, downloading a 10 day demo of Yoyotta or Canister will help install all the necessary drivers. Canister automatically downloads all the necessary LTFS, ICS frameworks, and MacFuse drivers which will make your LTO drive recognised by the Mac and then you can decide on which one to buy.
Get Yoyotta if you need very deep organising of your LTO assets into clients, projects, and any other criteria. Like if you’re writing 50-100 LTOs a year.
Get Canister if you occasionally write LTOs for backups (about 10-30 a year), and don’t have more than few projects.
Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Both have excellent online support.
Canister costs less and is very easy to use. Yoyotta costs more, but has a large amount of controls.
I use both, for different reasons and use cases.
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For a 4-part Netflix show that was being finished during the lockdown, I did the finishing for that on DaVinci Resolve. And I did most of it remotely, going into the facility about once a week to attach drives, check the aircon and other such.
Finishing consisted of doing motion graphics, supers, applying grades, making edit changes, subtitles, adding mixed audio and such tasks. The show is currently running on Netflix.
You can DM me if such a remote arrangement works for you. I use Jump Desktop and it works almost exactly like being there. All communications are through Zoom/Teams/Facetime.
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To be able to use a networked drive as a media drive for editing/transcode/consolidate you need two things
Avid Media Composer Ultimate
Avid Nexis/Unity/ISIS or Nexis compatible shared storage
Alternatives to Avid Nexis are many. Simplest one is Mimiq which is $199 per license. With that installed, any shared storage can be used like a local media drive over SMB. Multiple Avids need Mimiq on each, and they can all can mount the same shared drive and use it for project and bin sharing.
Even if you have only one Avid connected to shared storage, you’ll still need Mimiq to make Avid treat it like a shared drive.
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Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) and USB 3 (5 or 10 Gbps) have different top speeds, but the 2×3.5″ SATA hard drives that you use inside this LaCie dock, as RAID0 would give you a top speed of 500 MB/sec, or 4 Gbps. Either port can manage this speed.
But both types of ports are provided because, as Glenn correctly pointed out, some systems may not have a Thunderbolt 3 port, or have one free, so the USB port can be used.
The other reason is, this is a dock. It also has CFast and CFExpress card readers built in. These can read at 500 to 800 MB/sec. And there’s a hub USB 3.0 port where you could have another drive or an SSD connected. And there’s a display port where you could have a monitor hooked up.
Assuming you’re using one or both these card readers and the drives, and another downstream drive/SSD, then the combined bandwidth would exceed USB, so then a Thunderbolt 3 port would be faster.
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That’s such a common mistake that on some LaCie Units, I have taped off the USB port so that someone doesn’t plug a Thunderbolt cable in it. LaCie hasn’t make it any easier by spacing the ports equally and having a small (non 40-plus eyes friendly) symbol below the port so its hidden once one connects a cable.
For this particular (2-bay RAID0) drive, its speed should be nearly the same over Thunderbolt 3 vs USB 3.1. Provided, one uses a Thunderbolt 3 cable with a Thunderbolt 3 port, and a USB-C cable with a USB-C port. The Mac’s Thunderbolt 3 ports double up as USB-C ports, but work as USB, and have optimal USB 3.1 speeds only with USB-C cables. Preferably the supplied USB cables.
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Did this get sorted eventually? I’m curious because the speeds for write and read you’re getting are unusual.
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I don’t have direct experience with the BM Multi-dock, but I have a large collection of USB-C Thunderbolt 3 SSD enclosures and even multi-bay SSD enclosures, so I’m reasonably certain it will work just as well as any other enclosure. Its rack mount and has a built-in power supply so it seems to be made for pro use.
It’s not clear from your mail if you’re using an intel Mac or a M1 Mac. The reason for knowing that is that, M1 MacBooks have some issues with external USB-C SSDs. They seem slower than Intel MacBooks. Even with RAIDs, M1 MacBooks and Mac Minis have mixed reviews.
So, if are using an M1 MBP, then if possible check your LaCie 2Big dock with an Intel Mac, just to be sure.
The sleep issue you’re seeing is unusual. We have used LaCie 2Big docks in the field to offload camera cards and they’ve run for hours without any slowdowns.
As for editing and working 4k (vs HD) it also matters what codec you’re working with. Many compressed codecs like XAVC-S, XF-AVC and others, don’t have huge data rates so, a 2-drive RAID 0 should really suffice for those codecs. Unless your input media is Red Raw, or Sony Raw, or Alexa Raw in which case, a 2-drive RAID 0 may be insufficient.
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Your iMac USB-C port is actually a Thunderbolt 3 port.
The USB drives you have, if they are portable drives, then they will top out at about 120 MB/sec, and if they are desktop drives, then they may go up to 200 MB/sec or more depending on model.
You do get USB-C to 4-port hubs where the USB ports are USB-A USB 3.0 ports, so, totally about 600 MB/sec shared between 4 ports.
If you connect 4 portable drives via USB-A to USB-C cables to this kind of a hub, you’ll still see full speed on all 4 drives. Even if you connect 4 desktop drives to this hub, you’ll still see full speed on all 4 drives as long as not more than 2 drives are simultaneously reading or writing.
If you need even more speed or of any of your USB-C devices are SSDs or RAIDs, then you can look at getting a Thunderbolt to USB hub. Caldigit, Sonnet, and OWC make them.