As an FYI, on my project and media status, we have settled on the Events and Projects being on an internal 4TB 2-drive RAID and all media is linked on the SAN volume. Renders are local to this internal RAID, which is fast enough for rendered ProResHQ files. I tend to render as little as possible. When it's time to back things up, the session folder with all the media and elements is copied from the SAN volume to a removal drive. On that drive, I also create two folders for "Place in Events" and "Place in Projects". These are where I copy my session Events and Projects folders. Before I do that, I will have dumped all render files. Seems to be working well, so far.
On the SAN performance issue, I have been in touch with Command Soft's tech support and they are investigating the network traffic issues we discussed in another thread. The network should be plenty fast to have E&P folders live in the SAN volume, but for some reason the system isn't happy when you do that. Maybe in the future.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
