[Shane Sokolosky]

I would recommend them and EVO over Terrablock, with the terrablock solution your kind of tied to their hardware in a way.

With Evo you can chain an X Serve RAID, Promise RAID, or anything you want to it and it’s expandable in many ways, you can mix iSCSI with fiber channel expand iSCSI clients over Ethernet or add more through fibre channel.

With terrablock I don’t believe you have to pay for a per seat license which can save you a bit of money, but with SNS / EVO your not tied to certain hardware which can also save you money, potentially a lot more down the road….for example you can use an old X Serve RAID and a Newer Promise RAID and another 3rd party RAID (like https://www.activestoragelabs.com ) all in the same SAN.

Shane Sokolosky

Consultant / Systems Engineer

XSAN for Video Apple Certified Technician
Apple Consultants Network – Storage Area Networks
Apple Developer Connection

Office: 714-639-3767
Mobile: 714-599-1611

shanesky@santech.tv
https://www.SANtech.tv

[Shane Sokolosky]

Sounds like you do then, and to achieve those speeds, you’ll need storage that can handle that seed as well, if you plan on having both users simultaneously having that speed, there are a couple ways of doing that XSAN is one of them

https://www.apple.com/xsan/

as for the fibre channel cards, being an “Apple Certified Technician” I would say “Apple doesn’t support their hardware with windows”.

But if you must use windows and I’m just talking as a tech then perhaps these drivers on the windows side might help,

https://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/fibre_channel_hbas/lsi7204eplc/index.html

Shane Sokolosky

Consultant / Systems Engineer

XSAN for Video Apple Certified Technician
Apple Consultants Network – Storage Area Networks
Apple Developer Connection

Office: 714-639-3767
Mobile: 714-599-1611

shanesky@santech.tv
https://www.SANtech.tv

[Shane Sokolosky]

Think of it this way….

SAN = All Computer have a direct and fast connection directly to the storage.

NAS = All Computers go though a server then to the storage.

SAN = Faster, NAS = less expensive solution that will share.

The real question is, how much speed do you need to each client, what kind of video are you editing?

We’ve setup an Apple X Serve NAS system that could had about 7 clients editing HDV from it over ethernent with FCP, it does have it’s limitations though. The only way to tell is by how much bandwidth you need and will need in the future.

Cheers

Shane Sokolosky

Consultant / Systems Engineer

XSAN for Video Apple Certified Technician
Apple Consultants Network – Storage Area Networks
Apple Developer Connection

Office: 714-639-3767
Mobile: 714-599-1611

shanesky@santech.tv
https://www.SANtech.tv

[Shane Sokolosky]

HAHAHHA!
I’m sooo getting that blender!

Shane Sokolosky
Consultant / systems engineer /
XSAN for Video Apple Certified Technician

FibreWorks
1156 N. Batavia St.
Orange, CA. 92867
Cell Phone – (714) 599-1611
FAX – (714) 639-3523
Email – shanesky@FibreWorks.TV
Website – http://www.FibreWorks.TV

[Shane Sokolosky]

Yep, It should just not account for the extra Storage when you put thoese drives and the 300GB drives in a RAID mixed together.

Shane Sokolosky
Technician / Consultant
shanesky@studionetworksolutions.com
Phone – (714) 599-1611

[Shane Sokolosky]

Hey Rick, If your going to be using Gigabit Etherent, I’d have to recommend global SAN.
https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product.php?pci=10

It’s a nice solution all packed up for one price, I’ve put in many Shared Area Networks and the thing that can hinder production the most are when things just are not working right together. This solution is awesome because It comes with everything you need to get it up and running, it’s easy to use, it’s fault tolerant so your protected if a drive fails, and has more speed than you can normally get out of setting up a typical NAS (or storage shared through a Server via Ethernet.) The speed increase comes from using iSCSI over etherent, this will give you plenty of bandwidth to cover DVCPro 50 over one ethernet connection.

Overall It’ll give you more time to be productive and creative and a lot less time being an IT department.

Shane Sokolosky
Technician / Consultant

Studio Network Solutions
Email – shanesky@studionetworksolutions.com
Phone – (714) 599-1611

[Shane Sokolosky]

Yes, Good to hear some feedback Sean!

Shane Sokolosky
Technician
Studio Network Solutions

Email – shanesky@SNSla.com
Phone – (714) 599-1611

[Shane Sokolosky]

[Shane Sokolosky]

[Shane Sokolosky]

Is your firewire drive formated as an HFS+ volume? or did you format it as FAT32? If it’s FAT 32 it will show up on both OS X and Windows if it’s HFS + it will only show up on OS X, unless you use a utillity called mac drive.

https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/

Obviously if you have a place to transfer the data from your drive now, then format the drive as FAT32, then put the data back on the drive then you wouldn’t need this utility.

Hope this helps,

Shane Sokolosky
Circuit Access

Email – heysomthin@aol.com
Phone – (714) 599-1611