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 to the SAN. More than enough speed to cut using Apple’s ProRes codec all day long. At the moment we’re cutting two feature documentaries (over 300 hours of material), 3 PBS series and a multitude of other projects all on the SAN simultaneously. It’s been a very stout performer and when we need to do Uncompressed or 2k work, we have two local 8TB RAIDs directly connected to two workstations giving us 500 to 650MB/s. So for our needs, we’ve got everything set up to handle whatever comes in the door and need to allocate the uncompressed workstations as necessary. Well at NAB 2010, Bob Zelin brought me over to the Maxx Digital Booth to show me 350MB/s coming off a single 8TB RAID connected via ethernet. Now we’re getting into Uncompressed HD territory. Albeit a single stream of Uncompressed HD, but that’s perfectly fine […]
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