Re: [Avid-L2] Centralized Storage

Greg pretty much covered it!

We are a mixture of PC and MAC over at my facility and everything works flawlessly.
We have it configured into 6 partitions that show up as 6 drives on our desktop. We hold 5-10 shows and projects on each drive.


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On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Greg Huson <Greg@SecretHQ.com> wrote:

> I've never used editshare so can't make comparisons.
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> Terrablock uses unity-style management, Media Composer sees it as a unity. You can have bin-level sharing, both Mac and PC connected to the TB interchangeably. It's a win7-based server, but we're all mac, and it works flawlessly. You can connect fiber or ethernet - or a combination of both. No charge per seat for 'clients,' but you need to spend money to connect to those clients. Fibre cards, switches, etc. With ethernet I assume the costs are lower, but we only have on system connected by ethernet so we don't have special switches or anything - it just uses the server's native port. More systems, you need to connect
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> Facilis does some firmware on their drives, so you have to buy replacement drives from them. We run our boxes in Raid 5 - 'dynaraid,' and you can also do 'mirroring,' but you get half the published storage if you do that. Both my boxes are way past the end of warranty, and as the individual spindles fail, and they will, I swap in a new one, and it rebuilds. In nearly 10 years - I think we bought our first one around 2004? - the only data that was ever lost was a project file - two drives failed simultaneously. THAT WON'T HAPPEN TO YOU for the first 4 to 5 years of your system's life - if EVER. And even though 2 drives failing simultaneously is a recipe for disaster in any raid 5 system, the fine support staff at Facilis managed to save everything. (In retrospect, I probably shouldn't keep our attic folders on the server - but I've literally never lost anything as even the attic wasn't corrupted - just the current project folder, so we got back to work quickly.)
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> The management is simple and doesn't require too much IT expertise- plus support from facilis is excellent and they can do almost any of the uber-nerd stuff, if needed, by connection through gotomypc or teamviewer. Limit the number of people that are allowed to make partitions, etc., but that's just organizational. It's not difficult to manage. I've done my own system upgrades, etc., when new releases come out, but I generally just call them and double-check my work or confirm my plans. Because one of my systems is very old, I'm pretty regularly getting drive failures how - plus we have weird vibrations from heavy traffic in front of our building - and I can STILL strongly recommend the Terrablock. I'm in 'worst case' scenario
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> I bought two raids from another company for use as local storage - I won't mention any names because they're friends still and I like and buy their products - but those raids died after about 3 years. And the terrablock just keeps going.
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> Also, it's NOT a unity - and works great for FCP and AE and just about everything else we do.
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> Did I answer your question?
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> GH
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> On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Michael Kedor <mikedor@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> We are a reality TV development company. Many of our seats would be story producers pulling selects. The aim is to build the department out to have as many as 20 seats, but we're starting with just 5.
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>> We will be sharing bins and media, and likely use 90% of the storage for Avid use, and the other 10% for After Effects work.
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>> Greg & Zach, what are your experiences with the back end management on Terrablock? I am very familiar with the Editshare environment, and I wonder if anyone can make the comparison.
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>> MK
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>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Greg Huson <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:
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>> +1 for terrablock. Thinking about ordering my third! Can answer specific questions, but if I just start gushing, it will sound like advertising. I've never regretted any cash I've spent with them.
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>> GH
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>> On Dec 6, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Michael Kedor <mikedor@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hello Listers,
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>>> I'm in the process of updating our storage situation from shuttle drives to a centralized solution. We are looking to start with around 12 TB and 5 seats, but want to be able to expand, if necessary.
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>>> We have been looking at Terrablock and feel Isis is probably bigger than our britches.
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>>> I'd love to hear your feedback regarding your centralized storage setup, and what kinds of questions I should really be asking the folks that are quoting their products to me.
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>>> Best,
>>> Michael Kedor
>>>
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