[Tim Goodill]

Thanks for advice, I have checked forums but can’t find anything specific to using an iMac with aja io FireWire 400 and a drive connected using the Ethernet port. I know with only one FireWire 800 port I can’t daisychain which is why I am thinking of using the Ethernet port.

It’s fine if it’s not possible to edit up to xdcam 35 mbits on the iMac as I will sell it and buy an older mac pro. But it would only be for occasional use hence trying to do it with the iMac I already have (iMac i7). I’ve gone down this route because I was able to rent the iMac out to a production using edit share so it paid for its self. Maybe in my näivety I thought because I edited on the mac using the Ethernet port on the production that I could get some sort of nas/raid to work as well?

Is it not possible then without spending a small fortune?

Thanks
Tim

[Tim Goodill]

They want £100:

Thanks

[Tim Goodill]

Hi,

I recently purchased an iMac 27 2.93GHZ QUAD I7 4GB 1TB 7200RPM ATI RADEON HD 5750 1GB. It was purchased for a production company running in house post. It was the case of plug and play using their Ethernet which was running edit share. It worked fine using xdcam hd even for multi clips.

I bought the iMac as I was able to hire it to the production so it was a no brainer. My question though is now I am left with the mac what is the best small Ethernet based raid to buy?

I need to have external playback probably via aja io hd so I need Ethernet storage.

In this thread you mention i7 not been compatible with high speed Ethernet but I ran my i7 as mentioned on a network and it was fine.

I’m a bit confused. Any ways what’s the answer?

Thanks guys

[Tim Goodill]

I’m running FCP studio 2. I know the aja is discontinued, but it’ll do what I need it to do, I just don’t want to pay over the odds.

Thanks