This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Unity 5 to Terrablock upgrade

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Unity 5 to Terrablock upgrade

Could you be more specific about what you call "breaking in"? I worked on Terrablock for many years without a hint of "losing everything" but this was several years back. I've heard there have been some "growing pains" when multiwrite volumes came out and I did experience some occasional mac firmware incompatibilities that Facilis was quick to fix. I've heard a few people poo poo Terrablock because they had heard of people "losing all their projects etc...." Given that was never my experience I've never been able to find out where this information comes from. Many times I've heard these rumors/stories/accusations from resellers as a reason to go with other product solutions, but in those cases it always was coming from someone with a vested interest in selling something other than Terrablocks.

Your experience on a new Terrablock setup points to issues with the initial configuration that was rectified once the Facilis folks worked their magic. Did Facilis have any insight as to why you had your initial problem and lost everything?

Many years back I mistakenly deleted my entire project volume off the Terrablock and while I don't recommend it as a testing method a quick call to Facilis and they were able to snap shot the system and told us to not create any new volumes until they worked their magic. A few hours later they sent us a file that returned the directory to before my errant deleting of the volume. It all came back as well as my breath. With the exception of creating no new volumes the Terrablock worked fine for everyone on the system while Facilis rebuilt the directory. Perhaps this is why I feel strongly about the Terrablock solution. I do not work for Facilis but when you save my ass like they did I don't forget.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <namyrb@...> wrote :

One thing that I noticed after we moved to the terrablock was that it took about 3-4 weeks for it to "break in." We were having many problems with the terrablock slowing to a halt and having to stop production while restarting the server.

Also, at one point in those first couple of weeks, we lost everything after making changes to most of the volumes. We were testing out renaming volumes and changing volume sizes and facilis had to remote in and wipe and recreate all of the volumes.

After enduring all of that pain though, we haven't had any of those sorts of problems and it's running pretty fast off of the 10gig switch. Now we're just having some linking issues where we'd have to unmount and remount volumes to get media back online. But that's also happened on the Isis so I don't hold that against facilis.

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:16 AM, <tcurren@...> wrote:

The current version of Terrablock allows downsizing volumes which was the last missing feature that separated it from Unity, There are some caveats though.

On PCs, it works just like unity in the scaling and decreasing of partition size. On Macs, you need third party software to handle that feature as the ability to handle the scaled partition isn't built into OSX.

Mount and unmount is basically the same. You are just talking about network drives.

Terrablock "Multiwrite" volumes show up in MC as Unity drives.

We have been using Terrablock for many years now and are very happy with the performance.

If you get roped into 4K, you can go all the way to 16 gig with your existing fibre runs. You just need to upgrade switches and workstation cards.