[Tony Spiraletti]

Yes bob, I know how to use the internet.

Have you lived in Australia?!

If you had, you would realise that when you look at Australian sellers online, they often state that they have items in stock when infact if you ring them, they do not have them in stock. When I was putting together my NAS (which is working extremely well with 6 suites and 4 production computers hanging off it despite you saying I was bound for troube) there was no 817T’s in Australia let alone anyone with any experience in using one.

Thanks for pointing out the differences between the 817T and EC880 but I’m across how they differ. I was more interested in why you love the 817T so much, your personal experience rather than the technical differences.

My plan was to buy the 10Gbe NIC card for the EC880 and run 10Gbe into a 10Gbe switch (and I will still do this) but as the system needed to be installed within a week, that was not possible as the NIC cards and Switch were not readily available in time. So, we decided to temporarily use 1Gbe to each suite and aggregating the 4x1Gbe ports on the NAS giving us 4Gbe into the switch. This has worked extremely well. I have also spoken to some of the Guru’s at Videocraft Australia who have put together very large scale SAN’s and networks and they advised me they use 1Gbe exclusively for Edit suites. While the 817T looked great, we don’t use thunderbolt so not missing that feature.

[Tony Spiraletti]

Thanks Bob,

Due to my company getting extremely busy extremely quickly and the TVS871T not being available here in Australia at the time, we went with the TVS-EC880.

Also, due to lack of availability of the Netgear xs712 we have connected 6 editors to the NAS just via Gigabit for now. We used the 4 1Gbe ports on the NAS in aggregation to a 1gbe switch and hung six edit suites of it. It’s all working really well!

So, I’m assuming you have tried the simultaneous 10GBE and Thunderbolt access and liking it’s performance?

Care to elaborate on what rocks most about the 871T?

Cheers

[Tony Spiraletti]

Thanks Bryce,

I’m in Australia. I’m assuming you guys are U.S. only?

[Tony Spiraletti]

Yep, I’ve read it all before Bob. SmallTree are great, support is wonderful…… etc etc. And they are, but when things stop working, I like to be able to fix them myself straight away if possible rather than rely on a 3rd party support tech to fit me in when they can. If I don’t give it a go myself, what will I learn then Bob?

I have a few IT guys I can call if need be…..thanks for your concern.

The Switch i listed was a cut and paste error on my part and I’ve now abandoned that idea anyway and we are going 10Gbe all the way.

And yes, I posted here first…..noticed that this NAS forum didn’t get much love, spotted the QNAP NAS/SAN and thought I’d post in the SAN forum as it seems more active.

I’ll let you know how the install goes. I have a little IT knowledge and i’m not expecting to just plug everything in and it work on its own (and there may be a little hair pulling involved)……… but that person WILL be me Bob.

[Tony Spiraletti]

Thanks Bob,

To be honest, iII’ll be setting up a 10Gbe network with switch so probably don’t really need the Thunderbolt for now, just thought it looked like a good a option and Qnap do state that tow edit suites can connect to it via TB2 and share the drive, editing at the same time.

I think ii will probably go for the regular TVS-871.

In terms of choosing between i3, i5 and i7 versions does the processor play a big part in delivering content from the drives and out the 10Gbe ports or are Qnaps faster processors only for transcoding and running their apps?

Cheers

[Tony Spiraletti]

Thanks for your reply Bob.

Qnap state that you can connect two thunderbolt enabled computers and share the same material at the same time. They also state you can also use the 10Gbe connections at the same time and access the same material. They make mention that you get full bandwidth of 10Gbe and TB2 at the same time…… Or am I missing something?