I am in the processing of setting up a HD video editing system for on the road purposes
and have a couple of questions which I hope you guys can help me out with...
Basically I want to set up a shared lacie drive the 2 editors can work off...
1st idea is
2 mac laptops connected to a 4Tb LaCie Ethernet Disk RAID
via ethernet cables.
Is this gonna be fast enough for DVCPRO HD footage 100 Mb/s..?
this setup requires some networking skills though, i'm thinking..?
2nd idea is
1 mac laptop connected to a 4Tb LaCie Biggest Quadra
via fw800 and the second laptop connected to the first laptop
via ethernet...and networking that way
the other factor to take into account is that I need to connect a card reading
device to ingest footage...
the Pana card reader isnt smart enough to talk to a drive by itself. you need software to move the media off the cards and onto storage drives. ie, you have to connect the card reader to one of the 2 notebooks:
one more thing
Bob Zelin posted hear about constructing a cheap 2 system shared storage array using Gigabit ethernet. He is a respected editing and hardware guy, and he posted it less than a month ago
BTW
you sure you want to be doin all this? it can get kinda hairy, and it sounds like you are kinda new to this. Dont let me discourage you, but sometimes its better to delegate stuff that you are not comforatble with, espacially if its in a mission critical application.
Re: HD portable network by Matt Geier on May 28, 2008 at 8:23:12 pm
Michael,
Hi -
I wanted to give you my two cents also. With regard to DVCPROHD over a Gigabit port, your talking about pushing anywhere from 12 - 20 MBytes / sec for a single stream, depending on what compression you're using etc. Doing the math, you could fit 3 streams over a single gigabit port using Jumbo Frames on your clients, maybe four if you're lucky, but that's pushing it.
With that said, a lot of it comes down to how fast the storage is going to read and write off the disks. I'm not personally familiar with the product you mentioned to figure that out, so maybe someone else can chime in.
My main point is, regardless of your storage, you want to match your network bandwidth that your storage reads and writes to it's potential, because ultimately, that will be how fast you can go on the network over gigabit. You want to make sure you use the storage to it's fullest capabilities, otherwise, you're leaving money on the table for whatever you decide to buy.
