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Q: FCPX Thunderbolt 2 Ethernet question

Greetings,

 

I have a seriously techie question.

 

I work in a school in India and we get really humid during monsoon season. Think like living in a cloud moisture.

 

Our new Pegasus RAID is a concern of mind. Currently it sits in-between two iMacs connectives via thunderbolt.

 

The IT guy says we can move it to the server room as its dry there. 

 

At the very least we need to go and use a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter, which concerns me with bottlenecks.

 

He is installing 10 Gb switches near by, so he thinks it won't be a problem, but I am not entirely sure.

 

What are we overlooking? Will the students need to "Connect to Server"? Or will it come up as an external drive?

 

What do we need to do to make sure speed wise we can still use the RAID for editing, not just storage.

 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advanced.

Posted on Apr 25, 2016 11:01 PM

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  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Apr 26, 2016 7:50 AM in response to froghead2
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    Apr 26, 2016 7:50 AM in response to froghead2

    We have Ethernet/Thunderbolt bridges and we have Thunderbolt/fiber bridges. There is no way I would attempt to hook these up on my own and I find asking the server guys questions only gets me answers I only pretend to comprehend.

     

    Pegasus should be able to suggest a few products they like to use. Their own software should be helpful in establishing a good connection to and from your server room and through your switches. However, you are complicating your system by an exponential amount and you will need time to test, fix, retest, and then train your students on the new way to log in to the remote server, if that proves to be necessary.

     

    In our case, the server lads spent weeks researching, writing, installing, and rewriting scripts in Terminal that lunch at startup and connect our FCPX MacPros to the remote servers by establishing IP addresses behind the scenes and providing network credentials. While this works on 99.9% of our startups, we sometimes have problems finding our dedicated editing servers because someone else in IT has made a change to one of the many switches somewhere in the path and failed to tell the server guys. That can take two to three days to hunt down and fix.

  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB Apr 26, 2016 8:21 PM in response to froghead2
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    Apr 26, 2016 8:21 PM in response to froghead2

    Contact FCPWORKS, they can give you some definitive information.

    http://www.fcpworks.com/contact/