I have run macs off Unities for years. I also have a terrablock 5 that
supplies media for Avids, smoke and Adobe on pc and macs. Project
sharing on both is identical as the system is the same. The difference
is a choice between performance and admin security. Terrablock has much
better performance and speed but its admin is very rudimentary. In
short, log in is based on the machine user and not the actual user.
Therefore, each editor has to have a machine user to exist on the
server. You can set read / write per volume per user. Unity has far
more advanced admin / IT tools. Terrablock machine monitoring is done at
windows level with the exception is disk errors. It is a case of what
you need. They both do the same thing. Also, Unity is obsolete,
Terrabock has a future and Facilis are extremely helpful.
Terrablock has made lots of headway with macs and it is stable. I have 6
avids amongst other things hanging of it and we work only in HD. Unity
is far more flexible with volumes as you can reduce and extend.
terablock cannot reduce volumes and extention is rather labourious.
Other thing, terrablock is much cheaper than an Avid equivalent.
Sorry for the ramblings. Hope it helps.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
>
> That's an interesting question. I'm not much of a shared storage
administrator but from an editing room setup kinda guy I'd be more
concerned about the issues that might crop up with multiple users on a
workstation. I'm only speculating but doesn't that really open up the
potential for things like fonts and apps to end up being only accessible
to a certain user. I know sometimes when if not all when I install
software on macs there is a prompt for "all users." What happens if
"Headphone Separator A" loads in their special font and later "Headphone
Separator B" need to use that font on the same system? Will it be
available. I know there are choices as to how fonts etc... get managed
but I've never paid much attention to the specifics because I've always
set up bays with one main user. Curious what I can learn from your
experiment.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson Greg@ wrote:
> >
> > We have 7 or 8 Macs on a Terrablock 5.0.3 which has unity-style
multiwrite drive. Currently our systems are set up so that any user
logs into a computer based on the computer's name, not the user's name.
> >
> > If I copy all users to all the computers (making everyone an
administrator,) can we then log into our machines by username, rather
than computer name? Is anyone doing this and how does it affect your
workflow?
> >
> > Further, does the computer log in to the Terrablock by the computer
name, or by the user name? Ideally I'd like to be able to set
permissions by user, rather than by workstation.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any tips.
> >
> > gh
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> >
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