storage for Resolve Studio on Mac Pro trashcan

[Andu Radu]

hei guys

i have a question for all of you Resolve users: what type of storage do you use for Resolve running on a Mac Pro trashcan?

when i was using Lustre i had a 24 bay Rorke Aurora with a 8 Gbit fibre channel. i tried to move it on the Resolve system but the guys from Rorke said they don't have a workflow / support for the new systems on trashcans.

now i'm using a Synology NAS but i'm not satisfied with it mainly because of the speed. anything above 2k is not being played in real time.

so, what are you using?

thanks in advance.

cheers

 

[Tom Evans]

Hi @Andu Radu

Nothing adavanced here, I'm on a z820 with 4x internal 6TB disks and a connected LTO drive for long time mastering. Works like a sharm.

[Orash Rahnema]

Can you play the same footage real time on the internal HD?

My expirience with any level of Apple trashcan is that above 2k i can't play anything real time, no matter what. 

As far as i'm concerned is not a storage Speed problem. 

[Margus Voll]

Trashcan is limited on many ways this is people are moving to PC now.

Look for something like this:

http://www.caldigit.com/T4/

http://www.maxxdigital.com/thunderraid2.html

[Nikola Stefanovic]

On 3/23/2017 at 9:43 PM, Andu Radu said:

hei guys

i have a question for all of you Resolve users: what type of storage do you use for Resolve running on a Mac Pro trashcan?

when i was using Lustre i had a 24 bay Rorke Aurora with a 8 Gbit fibre channel. i tried to move it on the Resolve system but the guys from Rorke said they don't have a workflow / support for the new systems on trashcans.

now i'm using a Synology NAS but i'm not satisfied with it mainly because of the speed. anything above 2k is not being played in real time.

so, what are you using?

thanks in advance.

cheers

 

Promise Pegasus2 R8 24TB

[Игорь Белецкий]

Hello. 

Im using Areca ARC-5028T2 6-Bay 

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1109509-REG/areca_arc_5028t2_arc_5028t_thunderbolt_2_nas.html

hybrid raid offer.

if i was smart i wouldn buy 8bay,

[Margus Voll]

Why is 8 bay bad?

 

[Игорь Белецкий]

2 hours ago, Margus Voll said:

Why is 8 bay bad?

 

nonono i meant. "if i was smart i would buy 8bay"

ps, not wouldnt ))

Edited March 28, 2017 by Игорь Белецкий

[Andu Radu]

thank you all so much for the anwers. they were really helpful.

for now, i'm doing some tests to see if i can make one myself with top components and compare the price with the ones you gave me.

i'll let you know the results. 

[Marc Wielage]

I'm using an 8-bay G-Speed Studio XL in RAID5, and it's doing almost 800MBps with Thunderbolt 2, which is more than fast enough for 4K. It's rare I get any performance issues from the drive. The Trashcan has its own problems. 

[kristian ozer kettner]

I can vote for the Areca system I have had the 8 bay system for the last 3 years without a hiccup, and it has great speed 800-1100 mb/s  depending on how full the system is. With it current disks.