PC time. Nvidia ftw.

LTO is the obvious cold storage choice, a ZFS dataset for final projects that also syncs to Backblaze B2 is a solid system in my head as well.

We’ve tried it on a few occasions. I haven’t tried it with the purpose of this problem.

This is one of those situations where I’d call an integrator, like ALT Systems or Northshore Automation, who does a lot of sports work with archive/data implementations.

CatDV would be my top choice though, as I’ve used it at 4 sports institutions and being basically a MySQL database, flexible to the workflow you want to build.

It can certainly be…

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I decided I’d take a swing at building my own ZFS solution out of spare parts and some drive purchases. Part learning experiment, part cause we need some extra storage for long term client project.

I’m trying to figure out the best test/lab method for bench testing the unit before I actively hit it with a bunch of edit bays. I know there are a…

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Not really, there’s a lot of mixed media in the workflow, no proxies. Editing is fine, it’s just opening a project on another client that’s the problem.

No, these projects are across many volumes, but even if all the work is linked to just 1 volume, it still happens.

We have a number of editors who pass projects back and forth, sometimes, depending on the project, these can take hours to load. We’ve seen this happen many times over the years. And empty project loads instantly, so I’m assuming it has something to do with path mapping and the project looking for files.

Any ideas where to begin troubleshooting?…

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