Re: Will and SAN built for AVID also work with FCP 7 and Premiere Pro

Hi Dustin,

When it comes to specialized applications and platforms like what Avid (and real time media and video solutions in general), you've got to pick the "just right" solution for it to work with your workflow.

I know that Small Tree has a new real time video shared storage solution launched this year that supports FCP 7, FCPX, Avid, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, just to name some.

All in all you'll find some great solutions that are feature rich, and some that are not so much but still work and are reliable to accomplish your needs.

Regarding your question on LTO --
When I was at SGI I sold a lot of LTO Tape solutions. Mostly those from Storage Tek at the time....now owned by Oracle. You have options of tape solutions from Single Tape drives like those which are common among us now, or larger enterprise type of tape libraries and autoloader products that have massive amounts of storage space.

LTO is a great way to put something away safely for a very long period of time. It's long lasting and dependable.

You're budget probably only allows you to do something small....but take a look around and see what you can find. Again, lots of options for you that utilize LTO.

I wish you luck!

Happy Hunting!

Matt Geier
"I LOVE High Performance Computing and Shared Network Solutions"