Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac local storage for Avid media recommendations

Both of those are good recommendations, thank you very much.  But now I'm wondering if having this Shuttle XL in Raid 6 is causing problems with it's initial response when a request comes in.  Any thoughts about that?

Jay


On Dec 10, 2019, at 2:15 PM, wilsonchao <wilsonchao@gmail.com> wrote:

Back in Nov. 2014 I bought eight RAID enclosures by Akitio as locally-attached media storage for Avids.  Here's the current version (mine are from the previous USB 3.0 generation):


So far (5 years) they have all been working flawlessly.  Each enclosure, with 2 spindles in a RAID 0 pair, will easily sustain 4 multicam streams of DNxHD 145, all the way from empty past 90% full.  I've been using only HGST and Toshiba drives (cousins, if not siblings, after the Hitachi - Western Digital shotgun marriage of 2012) and so far I have no complaints.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Jay Mahavier via Groups.Io <jay_mahavier=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote:
Looking for some local storage recommendations for a trashcan Mac.  We got a G-Tech Shuttle XL 


And it is just terrible.  I mean if I'm doing a finder level copy of a ton of data it's very fast, but as media storage it is just very slow to respond and scrub a timeline or clip.  This is comparing it to an identical MacPro with the same project and media that's on an ISIS.  The systems are being used as offline editors with DNx LB media, so the bandwidth isn't huge.  But it does need to be 30TB+ because the it's going to mirror the ISIS, just in a remote location.


Thank you for your recommendations.


Jay




Posted by Video Geek Squad at 2:49 PM

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