ridiculously great.
Managing a Terrablock was frustrating for me. The past 3 years managing
multiple EditShare servers has been cake.
Just my 2¢...
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Christopher Lowden <
christopher@fearlesstv.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> 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 Also, Unity is obsolete,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
> > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > Greg Huson
> > > Secret Headquarters, Inc
> > > Post Production / Production
> > > Culver City, CA
> > > 323 677 2092
> > > www.DigitalServiceStation.com
> > > greg (at) SecretHQ.com
> > > facebook.com/greg.huson
> > > www.SecretHQ.com
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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