Re: Is Gig-E too slow for FCPX shared storage?

[Oren Hercz] "So I guess XSAN is the way to go then for X so you can use the add SAN location feature as opposed to workarounds with disk images."

XSan is one way to go. I don't have XSAN so I can't comment on it.

SANs done right, can be costly, I don't want to steer you in a direction you aren't prepared for. XSAN takes more setting up and maintenance for users. We have metaSAN which actually can be used on almost any storage system. It is extremely flexible. It does take some setting up and there is some cost involved, but there are ways to make it more affordable.

FCPX, does not work with NAS right now, but it does work with SAN.

[Oren Hercz] "For your Ethernet SAN, do you have Project and Event libraries on the SAN? Is anything stored locally? And it still plays back snappy?"

Everything is on the SAN, nothing is stored locally. Yes, things are relatively snappy, not any worse than FCP7. I edit 1080 projects from ethernet, and I also have fibre clients as well. Both work.

I don't want to scare you away, but SANs can be tricky. I love our SAN, it's very easy to use, but I would suggest knowing what you are getting in to before jumping in.

Where are you located, do you have a VAR you could talk to about this?

How many computers/users do you have and what other applications do you need to work with? What kind of computers? Laptops, iMac, MacPros?

Jeremy