[Ross Garrett]

thanks guys, do appreciate your time, we went with the Terrablock

[Ross Garrett]

Bob!

firstly, 2 different dealers, 1 selling the ex demo but I wont go into that, clearly too much hassle for you..
the other pushing the edit over TB

so this is what I have determined:

you are the almighty know all here, well congratulations..

no Im not the tech, Ive never said I was the tech and I dont like your tone. we are small company and we dont have a tech. but you probably know that. we have about 4 people working in house and all our editors and directors are freelance. In fact I have only been here 2 weeks.

I doubt very much that XYZ brands work very well, I have over 15 years selling and distributing hitech audio brands including AVID and have installed systems into high level customers and things DO break, you need a tech and we just dont have that here.

In fact the situation we are currently in with an untrustworthy RAID 5 is obviously what I am trying to aviod… but yea! buy any they are all great right?

last of all, I am in Australia so I cant just pick up the phone and call terrablock because they dont have offices here, small tree are barley known and a lot of the resellers who rarely sell these systems hardly know the in’s and outs of each let alone how to compare..

We are buying the terrablock and were really testing the water with other peoples thoughts on the systems we were offered.

I thought with a “community” such as this people would be able to offer some slight experience, not almighty assumptions…

don’t worry I wont reply here again..

Nice one!

[Ross Garrett]

Hey guys, thanks for the input so far, just to add we are usually working in ProRes but some files will be native XDCam, we also use a P2 and lots of other cameras. but generally ProRes. there will never be more than 4 computers using the share and the current RAID is on a 1Gb network, its a self built thing from an old IT person, its unreliable and we really do not want to go down the path of a DIY server.
what we do want to do is buy a turnkey solution that doesn’t give us extra’s we wont use. the small tree is what the old IT guy suggested, I have had good experience with the terrablock and Im leaning towards that. the Terrablock seller was pushing the editshare so we thought we would look into it, its the most expensive and I dont know if we need it.
in terms of media management software are we going to need that?
as I imagine the terrablock will just let you assign space to a drive name?

also the terrablock is a ex-demo unit that is cheaper than the other 2 so it is winning on price. I was just hoping for someone to sat NOOOOO!
the editshare is amazing because…

or buy the terrablock you are on the right track it will never give you any problems 🙂

thanks again!