Ethernet Storage

Hi All:

Are there less expensive alternatives to small-tree and edit share, for shared ethernet storage.

Thanks,

G.

The Small Tree solution is the cheapest. It is a BREAKTHROUGH in inexpensive shared storage. Sorry, but shared storage and SANs are NOT cheap things. The Small Tree option is good as there is NO SEAT LICENSE for each connection.


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Thanks Shane,

Do you own, or have you used one?

Thanks,

G.

Sorry forgot to ask,

Will small-tree playback uncompressed SD 10 Bit?

Thanks,

G.

I don't own or use one. At work we have a regular old Fibrechannel SAN. At home, miniSAS and eSATA stuff.

Uncompressed SD? CAKEWALK! How about 2K ProRes on a MacBook...non-pro? That's what was demo'd last year. 4 machines playing Red 2K from the Ethernet SAN.


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We're testing a huge 32 TB Small Tree ethernet storage set-up centered on 5 FCS Stations.

Had a lot of problems at the onset...had the entire rack filled with those bad Seagate 1.5 TB drives...were losing a drive a day for a few weeks (red lights popping on all over the chassis) and the switch kept kicking us off network. They finally pulled the entire chassis and replaced it all with 32 - 1 TB Hitachi's (32 TB) and a faster switch. No issues after that. We are still testing it. Our main format is 1280 x 720p ProRes / ProRes HQ with some 1080i projects.

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