Trevor Cable
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Oh, and as a side note my previous thread, if your company depends financially on your edit bays working then seriously consider spending the money the Nexis. You really do get what you pay for when everything is considered.
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I’ve had a fair amount of experience with Unity and Terrablock and just this week purchased the new Nexis E4 with 120TB. It was nice to see the cost for 120TB from Avid finally be at a price that I think is fair (approx. $60K without without switch). However, I did have an opportunity to test San fusions product and was really blown away. If you have someone on staff that is tech savvy with Unix you could build a system for far less than any other system. I had a 24TB retired server sitting on a shelf so we put FreeBSD on it and within an hour I had a multi seat Avid bin locking system using San Fusion. They don’t put any software on the server itself, it’s all done through the client software. I was very impressed. The product worked well and when I had a recommendation for the client software the support staff took interest and I believe it’s now part of the software. The only reason I chose to go with the Nexis over San Fusion is that our company requires 24/7 uptime. This means for support I only want to call one company and not have anyone suggest it’s not their problem (switch, server, OS, etc).
Anyway, my 2 cents.
-Cablet
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Hi,
About a month ago I built a small server using FreeNAS. I love it. The speed is fantastic. I can finally move files around my house from system to system at 100MB/s. It was confusing learning about Jails and other features but now that I have the hang of it I’d highly recommend FreeNAS. I’m using it now for backing up 3 computers (2 mac, 1 windows) and Plex for media streaming.