[Tim Jones]

The latest drivers have been very stable for me under 10.8.3, however I see better performance with OpenCL.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

If something like that would work for you, you could also take a look at NeoFinder. Very mature and robust, but far less expensive than the traditional DAM / MAM solutions. Of course, it’s not as feature-rich, either.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

[John Cummings] “Regarding media cache database, there is the option to “save media cache files next to originals when possible.” Do I disregard that?”

I do. I let them go to the Cache assignment drive.

“What about the project file itself? Does it take up a lot of room?”

They are pretty minimal. I save them on the same striped array as the clips.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Of course, you can use TOLIS Tape Tools to create and read tar tapes on OS X…

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Here’s where I would go (assuming Windows 7,64bit):

Add the second 160T SSD and assign it as your Cache / Render drive
(remember to clean it after jobs 🙂 )
Add all three 2TB drives and Stripe them (it will work even though they are different vendors)
– (this will give you around 300MB/sec sustained on that striped volume)
Use the G-Tech for backups until you can justify tape (LTO4/5/6)

Your next step would be to sell the 40TB drive and use that revenue as seed to replace the GTX 570 with a GTX 650 or 660.

A similar configuration has proven to be a very robust and good performing CS6 system for me.

I also did some fancy stuff with moving my Program Files and Program Files (x86) to partitions on another 2TB drive to free up space on my 250GB SSD boot and mounted those (rather than assigning drive letters), but that was a headache that may not have been worth the effort.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

As Rolf alludes, it actually appears that you’ve been caught by the standard OS X glitch^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfunction that occurs if a volume is not unmounted properly due to a system crash or a fiilesystem lockup. We see this a lot with Firewire and USB disks or Xsan volumes that get dismounted because of a FC fabric failure.

Normally, when you disconnect a disk volume from the system, the filesystem manager will delete the mount point created under /Volumes. However, if the drive is not properly dismounted, the mountpoint folder will still be there when the drive volume is next connected. Upon reconnecting, the system sees the original folder as already existing and therefore creates a new mount point with a -1 (and -2, and -3…). This will confuse all applications that expect the path of a mounted volume to remain consistent. We reported this to Apple as a bug back in 2003 and were informed that this was not a bug and is what their users expect.

To resolve this, we have customers rename the original mountpoint to something else, remount the proper drive (the system now creates the correct mount point) and copy any files / folders over to the now properly mounted drive. I would use the terminal instead of Finder like this:

cp -rv /Volumes/new_name/* /Volumes/Correct_Name/

Rolf, how will CatDV handle this after the files are copied to the proper mountpoint folder name instead of “Library-1”?

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

You could download the 30 day free trial of CatDV and give it a spin to see if it works for you. As for free, there’s nothing out there that’s free that we’ve found.

Tim

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Trying not to sound like a commercial here, but BRU will allow you to backup the entire array as one job, using each tape until it’s full and moving on to the next. Also, BRU will keep your catalog for ALL of the data and tapes online so that you can search for a file, folder, or any combination, even if the tapes are in the vault.

Tim

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

The -1 error generally means an I/O write error. Is it possible that your render destination drive needs a bit of tender loving care?

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

The answer to your question is always YES. Add as much RAM as your system allows.

To simplify this, I recommend Other World Computing’s site as they can tell you EXACTLY what RAM you need and I’ve always found their RAM (and other product) pricing to be very competitive with even the lowest of the price vendors (Frys Electronics, usually).

HTH,
Tim

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!