All their products are going to TB breakout boxes. Just look at the new products from AJA and Blackmagic.
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If there is ever a replacement of the Mac Pro (I am in the camp that believes the product will be quietly retired with no direct replacement) it will be a double sized mini with 4 TB ports, dual ethernet, and no expansion slots. I don't know, but Apple's drive toward smaller and smaller products, driven by the desire to kill the PCI architecture, points in this direction. Does that mean a TB XSan will no longer need a second ethernet port for metadata? So does that mean that the future holds a Thunderbolt switch and Xsans can be build with TB storage? We already know that TB can push Ethernet, video and data over one cable. And oddly enough, when you connect a Thunderbolt array to a Lion system, the Xsan pref pane becomes visible. Meanwhile, we see Thunderbolt storage coming in significantly cheaper and potentially faster. Xsan is still based on FC storage and FC storage is expensive. And I challenge anyone to find Lion specific Xsan documentation outside of man pages. Now that there is no "enterprise" software, there is no "enterprise" support. Don't expect any help from Apple if you do Xsan under Lion. All this stuff produces a rats nest of cabling behind the mini but it is doable.Īlso, here is the next concern. Sure, you need a lot of extra "stuff" like USB to Ethernet to get dual ethernet and the SanLink to get FC. After all, compare this to the G5 Xserve you likely built your first Xsan on and the mini eats the G5 for lunch. Now the crazy reality is that the mini is more than capable. Couple that with the change from FCS to FCX and there are a lot of pro shops that feel abandoned. The loss of "server room class" hardware has really taken the wind out the sails of most places considering Xsan. The concern I have and the trends I see is that no one is building new Xsans.
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But the Avid migrations are junking the Xsans that have run perfectly for these past few years. For the Premier migrations, Xsan has some legs. I can not speak for Final Cut X as I am seeing an erosion of my customer base as they are jumping to Premier and (gasp) Avid. And, it is my opinion, there is still no better solution out there when building a collaborative environment for Final Cut Studio. That is a big statement coming from the early 2.0 days and before when who knew. It has been stable, predictable, and reliable. So Lion Xsan is just as good if not better than that of previous versions. What are the other options? How successful are they at handling a 15 seat Fiber Editorial House? Etc.Īny other info would be greatly appreciated. I would really love some input on this stuff, because the XSan Discussion Board is not very busy these days and the current posts sound like the Permissions Problems that plagued version 1 have not been resolved.
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Is it realistic to plan for the Producers to be able to mount the XSan Volumes via AFP and be able to playback Prores 422 files successfully over the network or would the Producers Machines need to be Fiber Connected also? the Plan (if we go to XSan) would be to build and XSan Volume from six 4Gig fiber controllers stripped together, so throughput on the fiber Network should not be an issue, but what about the Ethernet connected machines, can they handle Prores 422?Īre people successfully using the new Mac Mini with the San Link as the MDC and Backup MDC? Is there another approach? Is it worth investing in XSan at this point when we migrate up to new machines, FCP 7 and Prores 422 HD? This really has worked quite well, even now, we rarely have any problems except for Hardware that gets replaced, but it obviously doesn't handle HD. Up to this point we have been nursing along 16 Fiber Connected Edit bays and another 12 AFP Connected Producer machines that run FCP 5.1. The reason I am asking these questions is because the editorial company I work for is considering migrating up to FCP 7 and newer Mac Pros, so we can Edit in HD.
#Apple xsan ebay free
So, how well does the free version of XSan that is included in Lion work? Any new issue to look out for? is the configuration pretty much still the same, MDC, Backup MDC, dedicated Metadate Volume, etc. I kind of still understand the big picture, but the day to day problems I am not up to date with. I was XSAN Certified when Version 1 came out, but haven't used it at all since then.