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Tyler Henry
July 4, 2013 at 7:24 pm in reply to: Archiving to Hard Drives: Bare Drives vs. Enclosed External Drives

I came across these Seagate drives:
The Seagate SV35
https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/sv35/

They’re advertised for surveillance video systems but they seem basically like enterprise-class SATA drives minus the RAID features, which are unnecessary anyway for archiving. The price is right – $85 at B&H for 1TB.

Any thoughts on this drive?

I’m still on the fence about bus-powered drives vs. bare drives. I want the archive to be a bit idiot-proof.
It seems like a tradeoff between shock protection and drive quality.

We did experience an LTO drive failure and now can’t access our LTO archive without paying a ton to fix or replace the unit. We feel like Amazon Glacier is a better deep storage solution for us right now. Either way hard drives are a necessary evil for quick retrieval.
Tyler Henry
June 26, 2013 at 4:45 pm in reply to: is there a solution to turn my Promise thunderbolt RAID into a SAN/Server?

Thanks for the info –
Bob, is that MAXX Digital solution the Final Share 10G?
That looks surprisingly simple and we have a Mac Pro available.

What’s the advantage to installing sanMP if it’s not necessary? Is it only necessary for larger bandwidths?
Tyler Henry
June 25, 2013 at 6:59 pm in reply to: is there a solution to turn my Promise thunderbolt RAID into a SAN/Server?

Hi –
I was wondering about configuring a similar setup and just stumbled onto this thread.
We have 4 editing stations, though only 2-3 are in use at a time.
– Mac Pro 2010
– iMac 2011
– iMac 2013
– MacBook Pro 2013

All are running FCP 7, editing multicam (4-track) projects in a mixture of XDCAM EX 35MBps and ProRes 422 HQ. Right now we just use sneakernet for project sharing. We may also switch to Premiere soon.

The MacMini Server/Areca Thunderbolt Raid/Small Tree ThunderNet/SNS iSanMP solution is definitely intriguing.
It seems that it might make more sense to get an all-in-one solution like the ProMax Platform Studio.
https://www.promax.com/s-226-platform-studio-features.aspx
I’m not sure what the price difference is though.

Are there any advantages to either system or incompatibilities with our editing setup? We’re a pretty small, seasonal operation so we don’t have an IT admin or even always permanent editors. We’re able to get our feet wet setting something up but it needs to be pretty low-maintenance so new hires can keep it running. Something more plug-and-play would be ideal.

Thanks for your help! Your forum posts have been a huge help in the past.