First off, my apologies for not posting anything in eons. I’ve been super busy… excuses, excuses… I know.
For those of you that don’t know, I’ve recently moved from Cape Town to Dubai, and am starting 2012 with a new long term contract as a producer/post producer/post workflow engineer/systems consultant/systems builder/(insert many other hats here) for the best production and post company I have ever known.
Muddville now has three Red Epic cameras, and a Scarlet on its way. Needless to say we generate huge amounts of data.
It’s come time to streamline our post workflow, and that means centralized storage and fast networking.
I’ve wanted to build a SAN for a long time, and each time the opportunity presented itself, the door closed for some or other reason. Not this time.
With careful consultation with Jac, Leigh and the team we have factored in all our post needs, such as a ton of storage space for 5K R3D media on active projects as well as uncompressed frame sequences, VFX assets and all this needs to be accessible to everyone on the network simultaneously.
We’re going Apple XSAN on 4Gb fibre channel, exciting times.
I also want to try out SANmp from SNS before finalizing the decision to go XSAN.
So stay tuned for write ups on the build, config, testing and deployment!
Is an Apple product a good idea for long term use as they seem to be dropping anything that is for the pro market?
I’ve actually decided against XSAN as it so happens. We’re going SANmp. The whole build is done now and running silky smooth, allbeit with a few hiccups along the way. I’ve had little time to document or write anything the past few weeks because of the pressure to get this fully operational. Now I’m wrapping it up I will have more time to write.