| | | | Service: Eureka Pacific
by Kathryn Franco on Jun 26, 2012 at 12:13:54 pm
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Eureka Pacific is the distributor of best-of-breed high performance storage and technology for rich media companies and professionals across Australasia. Our brands offer solutions that respond to each stage of media business - from pre-production, p | | | | |
| | | | Eureka Pacific
by Kathryn Franco on Jun 26, 2012 at 5:13:54 am
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Our expertise and product range includes technology suitable for broadcasting, film production, post-production, internet content creation, high-volume video production and distribution, effects and Hollywood-standard Blu-ray DVD authoring services. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Small scale Avid shared storage
by Frederic Vanderheere on Jan 30, 2012 at 2:07:16 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi guys,
regarding this small scale shared storage. I have another question for you. We are currently working with two editshare fields. One in an OB-van which we will replace by a bigger editshare server. The other field we use in combination wit | | | | |
| | | | Re: mac shared storage
by Bob Zelin on Dec 15, 2011 at 4:04:43 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Fibre -
Facilis Terrablock
Studio Network Solutions
(old) AVID Unity
Apple XSAN (using Promise or Active Storage arrays)
Tiger Technology MetaSAN
Command Soft Fibre Jet (with Rorke Data storage)
JMR (with Command Soft or MetaSAN software)
So | | | | |
| | | | Re: CalDigit SuperShare
by Bernard Lamborelle on Jul 28, 2011 at 4:23:36 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi Rui,
I think there might be two different problems and they may or may not be related...
I forgot to ask: what version of metaSAN you are running?
There should be no problem with Nuendo. If it is hanging while playing, there has to be som | | | | |
| | | | Re: CalDigit SuperShare
by Rui Peres on Jul 27, 2011 at 9:42:16 pm
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Doug Basset said
"It sounds too good to be true. There must be something I'm missing." and i totally agree.
A month ago I bought a Caldigit Supershare with 2xHDPro 16Tb to work with 2 Avid Media Composer 5.5, 1 Final Cut, 4 After Effects. I have t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Support
by Bernard Lamborelle on May 31, 2011 at 8:29:49 pm
in the metaSAN Forum
Hi Matthew,
It is probably best to fill up the support form:
http://www.tiger-technology.com/support_request | | | | |
| | | | Re: Question regarding performance...
by Bob Zelin on Apr 21, 2011 at 1:44:40 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Mark writes -
Kind of the same principal as in your "Build your own affordable SAN" article, but using 10Gbps links (instead of an aggregated 4x1Gbps links) & a custom server, instead of a MacPro
Mark,
you are very innocent, and I can see t | | | | |
| | | | Re: SAN Networking Questions
by Dave Barnard on Mar 7, 2011 at 2:32:51 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi Vik
When looking for ways to improve your SAN on a very tight budget make sure to look at all the variables in the equation to get the things you really need at an affordable cost.
I would recommend getting an independent consultant/systems | | | | |
| | | | Re: SAN Networking Questions
by Bob Zelin on Feb 21, 2011 at 1:46:56 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Vik writes -
for the post production of a locally syndicated travel show edited using ProRes 422, is fibre storage an overkill? Are Gig/10 Gig storage networks significantly cheaper for comparable performance for the bandwidth I am pulling, or do t | | | | |
| | | | Re: SAN Advice/Recommedations
by Bob Zelin on Jan 13, 2011 at 4:44:30 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi Justin, Hi Nate -
I have had several legnthy emails privately with Justin before I saw this post, and Nate's replies match up with what I said to Justin privately - but I wanted to respond publically to what Nate has just posted, on certain com | | | | |
| | | | Re: Too early for copper 10GbE?
by Shane Winter on Dec 16, 2010 at 4:32:23 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Ok..whew....first let me acknowledge how valuable all your guidance and discussion have been here. Read a lot but never posted, so...thank you!
Second, in NO WAY DO I INTEND TO DO THIS MYSELF...have great vendors to source and install this, and i | | | | |
| | | | Re: Too early for copper 10GbE?
by Shane Winter on Dec 16, 2010 at 12:44:01 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Wow, thanks for the lightning fast response....and first let me thank you for putting so much info out here. I've reaped the benefit from volumes of your guidance and discussion here. So...thank you!
Second let me clear up that I in NO WAY intend | | | | |
| | | | Re: Too early for copper 10GbE?
by Bob Zelin on Dec 15, 2010 at 11:06:06 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Tasked with upgrading the ethernet NAS shared storage for our tiny 3-bay FCP/mgfx house, I've been boning up and want to confirm one of my conclusions with anyone willing to comment here:
REPLY - as always, you want to "build it yourself" without | | | | |
| | | | Re: SAN advice
by Bob Zelin on Nov 12, 2010 at 4:16:57 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
I looked up Equal Logic, and once again, ask the question - how does a VIDEO PROFESSIONAL wind up with a DELL SAN solution -
these are the manufacturers of professional Video SAN systems - choose from this list, and if you stray from this list, y | | | | |
| | | | Re: What Rorke Hardware do You Have?
by Bob Zelin on Oct 29, 2010 at 8:25:54 pm
in the Forum
your original question was "so now Rorke has file level shared storage software". I think Rorke has been promoting Tiger Technology MetaLAN for a long time, which can run on your existing system, without spending any other money, and give you instant | | | | |
| | | | Re: CalDigit SuperShare
by Bob Zelin on Sep 22, 2010 at 4:16:50 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi Doug -
when you buy Super Share, you need the following -
you need a Cal Digit HD Pro
you need a Super Share hub/switch combination.
Now, in EACH of your computers, you need a fibre channel card to connect to the Cal Digit
Super Share to | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is OSX based RAID reliable
by Bernard Lamborelle on Sep 13, 2010 at 9:08:12 pm
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BTW If you were striping two RAID units (as opposed to two disks) that are each internally configured as RAID 5, you would end up with what is called RAID 50. In this case, you are far more reliable. In fact, you can lose one drive on each RAID and s | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is OSX based RAID reliable
by Bernard Lamborelle on Sep 13, 2010 at 9:00:46 pm
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Rob,
The RAID0 will be reliable as long as:
- one of the two drive doesn't fail. If one drive fail, you're out of luck.
- you do not overfill the volume. If you fill over 80% of disk capacity, performance will drop and files will eventually st | | | | |
| | | | Re: Simple SAN
by Bernard Lamborelle on Sep 9, 2010 at 8:15:45 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
As Bob said, AFP will work fine for file-level sharing. It is pretty efficient and you might only get marginally better performances using an iSCSI initiator.
Windows servers usually make poor servers for video editing on Mac. But using metaLAN Se | | | | |
| | | | Have you ran out of disk space lately?
by Bernard Lamborelle on Sep 3, 2010 at 5:34:35 pm
in the - ARRAYS & RAID Set-Up - Forum
Greetings all,
Tiger will soon release poolIt for Mac, a new software tool that allows you to create a virtual storage pool by dynamically adding (or removing) live HFS+ volumes into (from) it.
The pooled volumes are hidden and replaced by a si | | | | |
| | | | Tiger Technology
by Bernard Lamborelle on Sep 2, 2010 at 6:29:22 pm
in the Forum
Director of sales at Tiger Technology Ex-Director of technical marketing at Matrox Video Products Group | | | | |
| | | | Re: SAN advice needed
by Bob Zelin on Apr 30, 2010 at 2:57:05 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Hi Alex,
my replies below, but the G5 is an old computer. You probably have a MAC Pro, not a G5, and don't say "oh big deal" - because it is a big deal -it's your money, and every mistake you make like this can cost you money.
You want a cheap | | | | |
| | | | Re: Looking to determine BW requirements
by Chris Blair on Jan 22, 2010 at 7:10:12 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
I think Bob's point is that a lot of people come to the forum with proposed solutions in mind and are often just looking for validation of their choices. I'm not saying that's what you were doing, but in the original post you said a couple of things | | | | |
| | | | Re: slightly ghetto san - hey David !
by Matt Geier on Dec 30, 2009 at 4:11:02 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Chris Said..
Perhaps this is a Mac thing...but in our Windows based facility using the Apace vStor, we can share our office IT network right along with the vStor's shared video storage using just one 48-port switch. I don't recall the brand or anyth | | | | |
| | | | Re: slightly ghetto san - hey David !
by Chris Blair on Dec 30, 2009 at 5:44:18 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Bob Zelin: you CANNOT share the office IT network along with the shared storage (which needs to be a dedicated network), using Ethernet port 2 on your MAC Pro's, with static IP addresses.
Perhaps this is a Mac thing...but in our Windows based faci | | | | |
| | | | Re: shared storage for 3 seats of FCP
by Chris Blair on Dec 19, 2009 at 4:24:58 am
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
You should also at least take a look at Apace's offerings. They're very affordable, they work with Final Cut/Mac, they're scalable, and their customer service is the best I've ever experienced in 25 years working in this business. Contact their resel | | | | |
| | | | Re: Storage soution
by Bob Zelin on Oct 7, 2009 at 2:58:27 am
in the Forum
I guess you don't like the answers of
AVID Unity
Studio Network Solutions
Facilis Terrablock
EditShare
Apace Systems
Tiger Technology MetaSAN
You want something a LOT cheaper, don't you - something that you can build yourself. Something t | | | | |
| | | | Re: What am I doing wrong?
by Ian Liuzzi-Fedun on Sep 16, 2009 at 9:47:21 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
I am the only one on the network so I cannot possibly believe that someone else is overwriting bits. I have two Xserve's with a plethora of external drives. I have tried all of the drives on all of the systems to no avail. I am hopefully looking f | | | | |
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