Setting up a small Collaborative/Server on Mac OS for DR
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 4:18 pm
Hi there !!
How do you guys share your storage for collaborative editing?
Is a 10 GB-Ethernet-Network sufficient for R3D (5K), BRAW , ProRes editing/grading?
I'm going to setup a MacMini (2018 with 10 GB Ethernet) as a Fileserver/Sharing-Station.
Our Storage is a Lacie 8Big TB2 RAID (64TB).
We "only" have 2 , maybe in future 3 Edit-Stations.
I'm going to attach the TB2-RAID to the Mini and share it via 10GB Ethernet (we already have a 10 GB Network-infrastructure) and the edit stations are all 10 GB-Ethernet-equiped.
The Mini will also host the DR-Project-Server.
Any thoughts on this? Any tipps, recommendations on how to setup the Mac Mini ?
Is a "standard" AFP/SMB-Shared Network ok or do we need a XSAN or something special?
All Clients and the Switch are configured to Jumbo-Frames (9000) and all machines have fixed IPs.
Any other tipps on how to optimize network?
Here is our setup:
1) Storage: LaCie 8 Big Thunderbolt 2 RAID-Storage (which delivers around 900-1000MB/s bandwidth when connected natively via TB2)
2) Main Edit-Station: iMac Pro (18 Core,VEGA64+EGPU)
3) Second Edit-Station: MacPro (2013, 12 Core,D700 , Promise SanLink 10 GB-Ethernet Adapter)
4) DR-Project-Server: MacMini 2018 (10 GB-Ethernet)
5) NETGEAR 16 Port 10 GB-Ethernet Switch
Thanks for reading and any recommendations !!
Daniel
How do you guys share your storage for collaborative editing?
Is a 10 GB-Ethernet-Network sufficient for R3D (5K), BRAW , ProRes editing/grading?
I'm going to setup a MacMini (2018 with 10 GB Ethernet) as a Fileserver/Sharing-Station.
Our Storage is a Lacie 8Big TB2 RAID (64TB).
We "only" have 2 , maybe in future 3 Edit-Stations.
I'm going to attach the TB2-RAID to the Mini and share it via 10GB Ethernet (we already have a 10 GB Network-infrastructure) and the edit stations are all 10 GB-Ethernet-equiped.
The Mini will also host the DR-Project-Server.
Any thoughts on this? Any tipps, recommendations on how to setup the Mac Mini ?
Is a "standard" AFP/SMB-Shared Network ok or do we need a XSAN or something special?
All Clients and the Switch are configured to Jumbo-Frames (9000) and all machines have fixed IPs.
Any other tipps on how to optimize network?
Here is our setup:
1) Storage: LaCie 8 Big Thunderbolt 2 RAID-Storage (which delivers around 900-1000MB/s bandwidth when connected natively via TB2)
2) Main Edit-Station: iMac Pro (18 Core,VEGA64+EGPU)
3) Second Edit-Station: MacPro (2013, 12 Core,D700 , Promise SanLink 10 GB-Ethernet Adapter)
4) DR-Project-Server: MacMini 2018 (10 GB-Ethernet)
5) NETGEAR 16 Port 10 GB-Ethernet Switch
Thanks for reading and any recommendations !!
Daniel