alternatives?

yoth · JBOD Joined: 08 Aug 2012 Posts: 4

So, I have a client that does video and podcast production with eight work stations connected to xsan 2.2 with everyone on snow leopard.

They are looking to move from final cut to premiere. from what i understand, there are some significant gains going to lion or mountain lion in regards to gpu acceleration in premiere if you have invidia cards. this will cause us to upgrade the xsan.

They would like to know what the other alternatives are to xsan and so they can decide whether to upgrade or jump ship.

What would you consider an alternative in a collaborative video production environment? 10 gig ethernet? But they lose shared file system. anything else you like?

Thanks.

cass5064 · JBOD Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 2

Have you looked at Quantum StorNext?

mark raudonis · Xsan Master Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 123

Stornext: Which is really just "windows X-SAN"!

If they have a system which is already working, why would they have to "jump ship"? An x-SAN would be just fine for Premiere. Now if you said Avid, that's a different story.

mark

ogminlo · Xsan Master Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 149

cass5064 · JBOD Joined: 18 Oct 2012 Posts: 2

Only reason I said that is because XSAN is now free so seems like there is uncertainty on long term support and roadmap. Plus you can archive down the road or access over LAN. Windows, XSAN, or Linux.