I second that - the Facilis engineering staff is both knowledgeable and helpful. Even to their smaller clients....
John McClary
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--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Randall L. Rike <indypix4u@portablepost.com> wrote:
From: Randall L. Rike <indypix4u@portablepost.com>
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Facilis as server in workflow
To: "Avid-L2" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5:39 PM
When I worked at The Post Group I was looking for a storage solution that
could support every system we had, and deliver 4:4:4: to any that needed it.
We had Avid DS's , Avid Symphny Nitris's, FCP's , Clipsters, Prontos,
Nucoda's, and DRS's. TerraBlock was the only solution that would do this.
We ended up with 8 x 24D's for a total of 220TB's. All servers were
quad-ported to the SanBox 9000 switch. All clients were dual-ported to the
switch. We were able to have 15+ systems pulling 4:4:4 simo without a
hitch. Volumes were spanned across 4 servers. Much of the workflow was
DPX-based. Totally rocked!
Considering $/GB and potential throughput, it's a great product.
Also, Jim, Francis, and the entire engineering staff work very hard to
resolve issues and implement suggested feature requests.
Best regards,
Randy
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From: Scott Ham <scottham.list@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:12:47 -0500
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Avid-L2] OT: Facilis as server in workflow
Hey all,
We're an edit house that will be mixing Avid's and FCP on a Terrablock with
8 offline seats. We haven't upgraded to Terrablock 4.x but are looking to
do that shortly.
Currently, we use an XServe as our share point between graphics, sound,
offline, etc to transfer files for ingest into offline which are imported
and playback off of the Terrablock. We are now considering removing the
XServe from our workflow once we upgrade the Terrablock since we will have
greater read/write access and using the Terrablock as both the shared
offline media hub as well as the work server that passes materials between
departments.
Part of me is hesitant to bring the Terrablock into the workflow as anything
but a media server for edit stations but I think that just may be my own
paranoia.
Does anyone use a Terrablock as their main server/media hub? Are there any
issues I should be aware of before tearing down our traditional server from
the workflow and giving everyone access to the Terrablock? Do I need to
worry about slowdown or extra network chatter with more connections?
Thanks as always.
Scott
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