Ok, so Digital Asset Management is the topic. Some of you might be thinking “well that’s not nearly as sexy as having the ‘four A’s’ on stage at the same time like you did last month.” No, quite honestly it’s not but if anything, this month is even MORE important to the stability and longevity [...]
NOTE: Updated to correct the cards brought for the install. As I reported a few weeks ago, Small Tree replaced our original ethernet SAN we’ve been running since December 2008 with a new system including an all new 48TB Granite Stor RAID II. I also reported that we discovered some things about the Macs that [...]
Ok, I got a bunch of emails today asking to explain exactly how an Ethernet SAN works. I’ve done a full article on this in the past, but here’s a quick primer on how it works. 1 – The SAN controller computer. In our case, a Mac Pro 12 Core machine with 32GB RAM. 2 [...]
Today we completed the installation of the new Small Tree Ethernet SAN featuring the 48TB ST RAID II storage system. The thing that continues to blow me away about these guys is their knowledge all ALL things Mac. In particular the inner workings of the OS. One thing they did with our SAN computer was [...]
It was a very hot and sticky Sunday here in Atlanta today, but it was nice and cool inside the shop. A great day to install a brand new SAN. Steve Modica, Chris Duffy and I all met up bright and early at 8am to get a nice early jump on things. Turned out to [...]
This week we’re finally going to be upgrading our ethernet based SAN, which as most of you know is a Maxx Digital Final Share system. And of course most of you also know is that Small Tree Communications came up with “secret sauce” to make editing HD video via Ethernet a stable reality. So Final [...]
If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ll know that we installed an incredible Ethernet based SAN back in December of 2008. It’s the Final Share SAN system from Maxx Digital which features some ethernet wizardry from the folks at Small Tree Electronics. We’ve been pushing the heck out of this system with two feature [...]
Most of you know that we’re running an ethernet based SAN here at BCM. It’s the Maxx Digital Final Share SAN which runs a combination of their drive arrays with Small Tree ethernet wizardry and some stout Atto Host Bus Adapters. We generally get around 100 – 120MB/s to the 7 workstations that are connected [...]