[Simon Leadley]

Dear Matt.
thanks for the response. We are using some small Tree Cards supplied by Robin Frost at 2 degrees frost. We have a small workgroup that needs to access common shared storage but with pretty low stress. The sessions are for animation and are typically no more that 30-40 tracks at 48/24. We have tried the 2 degrees stuff for our film work and that, so far seems to be OK. But I am looking for a lower cost simpler option. The A$ has dived and $25k is a no go. We hoped an old G5 as a server and some software and cards in the edit macs and a fast switch might work with iSCSI or MOE. We envisage 3 edit stations to the server and a few mountable volumes that can also be mounted read only for Video, this alone would save copying the Video files to local drives. Having the SFX library on the SAN would also be good. But the main thing here is low cost. The MOE drivers then the server software seem to be the missing link. How does your system work, and what ball park costs.
thanks in advance
Simon Leadley
http://www.trackdown.com.au