Soldato
Hello,
Im currently trying to research ideas of how to deal with the storage of our video editing macs here at work. We currently have 4 Mac pros, 2 with 250Gb storage drives and 2 with 120Gb storage drive. all of them have an additional 20 Gb system drive.
The Macs are for the students to use Final Cut Pro and iDVD to do video editing. At present we assign a machine to a group when they start a project, they then have to stick to this machine throughout their project, and are themselves responsible for booking time on this machine. Now this works fine most of the time, except sometimes we will end up with a couple of the machines not being used, and a couple of them being in demand as some groups work faster than others.
My ideal solution to this would be to have a central NAS system where all the work is stored. The students could them jump on any available machine and access their work. The only downsides to this are the potential cost, and also the speed of the system needed to be able to handle at least 4 real time video editing systems, with potentially more in the future.
So does anyone know how this is handled in industry, or have any relatively low cost solutions or ideas?
Im currently trying to research ideas of how to deal with the storage of our video editing macs here at work. We currently have 4 Mac pros, 2 with 250Gb storage drives and 2 with 120Gb storage drive. all of them have an additional 20 Gb system drive.
The Macs are for the students to use Final Cut Pro and iDVD to do video editing. At present we assign a machine to a group when they start a project, they then have to stick to this machine throughout their project, and are themselves responsible for booking time on this machine. Now this works fine most of the time, except sometimes we will end up with a couple of the machines not being used, and a couple of them being in demand as some groups work faster than others.
My ideal solution to this would be to have a central NAS system where all the work is stored. The students could them jump on any available machine and access their work. The only downsides to this are the potential cost, and also the speed of the system needed to be able to handle at least 4 real time video editing systems, with potentially more in the future.
So does anyone know how this is handled in industry, or have any relatively low cost solutions or ideas?