Re: MetaLAN -- ProjectStore -- FCPX

[Matt Trubac] "Thanks Jeremy. I have no experience with SAN's but think I need one. I'm hoping to setup something small to start that will increase efficiency between 3 workstations. We edit a mix between FCP7 and FCPX... more and more with X. With FCP7 we got by doing things over gigabit with AFP. We typically push files around to bare sata drives in esata/fw800 docks and it is getting crazy trying to keep track of everything. I would like a central pool for media, projects and events."

A SAN will certainly help. We were at a point where we needed to buy more storage for our main edit suites as they were always full or near full. We were constantly juggling projects on and off and between the two main rooms, and it was a major hassle. I started looking at two new fully stocked RAIDs, then started looking at SANs. We then figured that we can add the other satellite stations as well, so the SAN started to make a lot of sense.

Local storage is cheaper and easier, certainly, but the SAN has made us more productive.

Our SAN is an "all-in-one" turnkey system from Sonnet. The metadata controller is a windows box. It's been very good. There's this NTFS/FCPX hiccup and I hope Tiger (metaSAN) can fix. Even with a big raid, the space fills up. I hope it can get sorted too.

If you have any questions, I'll try and answer them.

Jeremy