Best alternative for central storage of a NAS

Hi All,
I own a macbook pro and an Imac.
Next to that I use a NAS from QNAP to store my data centrally. That should make it easy to use my data on every device that I have.
But in reality the NAS is very slow in relation to my apple products. With a windows machine it's fine. But showing up in Finder is a pain in the ash.
When looking to the competition, also Synology has lots of issues on that part. As can be read on all the user forums.
So, if I want to have an alternatieve solution with the following features:
1) Store all my content centrally and use it on my apple products (so data is only on the central location)
2) Backup the data from my central location to a location that's not in my house (for cases of theft or fire).
3) Where the connection with the apple products is fast.
As far as I know there's not something within the apple product range, but that could be my misunderstanding of the product line.

When I saw 2TB, it triggered these questions:
ISP
Sufficient upload/download transfer caps to achieve your goal
Sufficient bandwidth between you and your cloud services provider to achieve daily backups
Edge device upgrades for higher bandwidth performance to ISP
Cloud Services Provider
Assurance your data remains on servers in your country
Sufficient storage expandibility and fits expense budget
Sufficient cloud performance to achieve 1.2, and subquent document access
Adequate cloud management software interface
Reviews and other documented evidence of cloud service reliability
Personal Document Security
One can place password protected documents in a folder
With Disk Utility, create new disk image from folder
Compression
256-bit AES encryption
Protection against 2.1 disregard

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I am looking for suggestions/how-to on the best setup for media storage. We have two editors (and two computers - Mac Pro PowerPC and iMac Intel). We are currently using an internal 500 GB slot on the Mac Pro along with 1 additional external 1.5 TB drive. Then, on our iMac we use a 1.5 TB external drive. We use, for external drives, LaCie.
Here's our problem. We are running out of space. So, what is the best solution for media storage? Should we get a small rack for our external drives from LaCie and daisy chain them? Or, should we get a server? The only problem I have with a server is connection speed...we, most of the time, have a slow connection at our college.
p.s. here is a link to LaCie's website listing a rack...and we have the d2 drives. So, do you daisy chain them or plug each one in individually?
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10172
Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance.
zanm
Message was edited by: zanfardinom

Hi Everyone!
Thank you all for your suggestions. I agree...Drobo looks great, but I am finding more and more bad news when it comes to editing. It looks like a great solution for archiving. I received another solution with great reviews from one of my colleagues contacts. They work for a big company.
Hope this helps...something else to add to the mix.
*Our edit suite storage solution is a Facilis Terrablock 24EX unit. (http://www.facilis2.com/24ex.html) It has 18TB of space and is connected on 4GB Fibre channel to both suites. On top of that we have an Apple X-Serve running Final Cut Server that sorts and catalogs all the video we put in so network users (Mac and PC) can search and look at media from their workstations. We just put this in a few months ago. Before that we had a Rorke Data Galaxy HDX with 6TB of space on a 2GB Fibre Channel connection. ( http://www.rorke.com/av/galaxy-hdx.cfm ) It’s now a backup storage unit. Both systems have excellent performance though, we upgraded mostly for space and the server software.*
Again, thank you all for your help. I will research all suggestions.

Best Format for Additional Storage

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I'm trying to make the best decision for additional storage for editing with FCP 4.5. I have a new project for a new customer that will require a significant amount of video storage while I am still doing my current projects (so I can't make room/stop what I'm doing, I'll be doing projects concurrently). This storage solution will just be a capture scratch disc.
You can see below what I've got, system-wise. My current storage consists of 2 internal drives and 3 external fw800 drives. This setup has worked effectively for a number of years, but I'm now a little nervous (after reading some other posts on this subject) about adding another fw800 drive to the mix (such as the 1.2 TB Lacie Bigger disk).
Here are my questions:
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3) Is a SATA card, such as the Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA (http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo-x_esata8.html), a viable option?
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Yea. The site is www.granitedigital.com if you didn't get that. I would probably go with them for heavy-lifting video jobs or go with Glyph (www.glyph.com) if you've got the means. They've got great flexible rackmount stuff in addition to enclosures. (They are, in the opinion of many, simply the best made external drives on the planet, used in almost every audio recording studio. You get what you pay for.) I would also check out G-technology. They all make great stuff; it's a matter of what fits your budget and needs based on what each company can offer you in terms of flexibility.
Those notes being said I have had good experience with the LaCie drives I have encountered. I have an external CD-RW drive which is several years old and is still cranking out my CD masters for me without fail. I have a great deal of friends who use the D2 drives as well... they are solidly built (all metal) and use an Oxford chipset (I believe the more dated 922 but it's a decent chip) and like someone else said probably whatever batch of drives they can get cheapest. Inevitably, like any other drive, there are bound to be duds and drives that will fail prematurely. All things considered, in my experience they are workhorses and great "all-around" drives for doing whatever needs to be done in your everyday life.
hope this helps,
bret

Seeking advice on Best Practices for XML Storage Options - XMLTYPE

Sparc64
11.2.0.2
During OOW12 I tried to attend every xml session I could. There was one where a Mr. Drake was explaining something about not using clob
as an attribute to storing the xml and that "it will break your application."
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{code}
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Hi,
I suggest you read this paper : Oracle XML DB : Choosing the Best XMLType Storage Option for Your Use Case
It is available on the XML DB home page along with other documents you may be interested in.
To sum up, the storage method you need depends on the requirement, i.e. how XML data is accessed.
There was one where a Mr. Drake was explaining something about not using clob as an attribute to storing the xml and that "it will break your application."I think the message Mark Drake wanted to convey is that CLOB storage is now deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore (though still supported for backward compatibility).
The default XMLType storage starting with version 11.2.0.2 is now Binary XML, a posted-parsed binary format that optimizes both storage size and data access (via XQuery), so you should at least use it instead of the BASICFILE CLOB.
Schema-based Binary XML is also available, it adds another layer of "awareness" for Oracle to manage instance documents.
To use this feature, the XML schema must be registered with "options => dbms_xmlschema.REGISTER_BINARYXML".
The other common approach for schema-based XML is Object-Relational storage.
BTW... you may want to post here next time, in the dedicated forum : {forum:id=34}
Mark Drake is one of the regular user, along with Marco Gralike you've probably seen too at OOW.
Edited by: odie_63 on 18 oct. 2012 21:55

Best practice for video storage?

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Best practice for centralized material planning in distributed environment

Hi All- Hope everybody is doing fine. Things are going fine,at my end.
We are debating on the organization hierarchy decision at our current utilities client. We are proposing that:
1) We will have central warehouse as plant/storage location/warehouse.
2) Create one plant (it will be virtual only) and 65 storage locations. Plant maintenance orders will be created at the storage location and it will generate the reservation at the plant level. This reservation will be converted into STO during MRP run. Central warehouse plant will use this STO to create the outbound delivery and then the shipping documents. APO will be ok with arrangement as all the requirements are centralized. Now my problem is, the reservation doesnt have any delivery address to copy it in the STO. To populate the delivery address automatically, I believe we will need the modification / enhancement. Am I right? If this is right then what type of modification we will require? I mean effort wise (hours etc.) & time wise.
ANy help is highly appreciated.
best regards,
KHAN

Hi,
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The reason you are having problems with addresses is that in a Plant to Plant reservation the plants have different addresses.
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Yes there will be more master data if they are all set as plants, but how many times does master data change compared to how many receipts, issues and transfers etc. will occur. I would rather compromise on the master data maintenance than have to compromise on EVERY movement.
I can't stress this strongly enough, if you use storage locations when you should be using plants you WILL lose major functionality and the SAP implementation will be seen as a poor one.
I have seen many implementations at first hand where this has been the one influencing factor that has resulted in a poor implementation instead of a good one.
Steve B

Best option for file storage

I want to archive some of my CAD files and other files on a 'by year' basis. Is a flash drive a good option? They seem neat but then again they are a bit small & could get lost. Any ideas on the best option these days?

A 2.5" external hard drive will hold MUCH more and still fit in a shirt pocket should you choose. Lots of storage for a reasonable price. Remember to make backups of whatever meda you choose. You don't want your files to be in just one place.

Best practices for additonal storage devices in a clustered container

I am wondering what is considered as best practices related to adding more storage devices. I have a Solaris Cluster 3.2, a failover resource group with a SZBT resource and a HASP resource for the zone root path. Now i have to add more storage devices (for Oracle to the zone). The additional storage devices are in the same metaset as the zone root. I see the following options:
-> Add it to the zone (simple not managed by HASP)
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Fritz

Hi Fritz,
no matter which option you take it should resoult in lofs mounts.
I in person would not mix the concepts, you started with HASP, so I would continue with HASP.
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1 add the file systems to the HASP resource,
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Best option for MBA storage capacity

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WHERE OrderID = @i % @max_OrderID
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David
David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/

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tt2

Best solution for usb storage mounting ?

Hey there
i installed arch on my wifes computer, keeping it xfce4 for right now to conserve resources. my daughter has a usb camera that i can mount via fstab (sometimes) and mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 yadda yadda.
is there a way i can simplify this so that it automounts ala ubuntu style ?
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nephish wrote:cool, does sda1 stay at a permission that will allow users to mount / unmount ?
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Hi,
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suggestions please?
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Best way is to maintian data(growing data) on R3 and use JCA to write a simple portal application(JSPDynpage or WD) to get the data back on portal.
Using JCA, won't affect noticeable portal performance..
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I kept a lot of original AVI footage from the original DV Tapes. I see these as the MASTER material.
I also have the same footage on MPG.
My new Smart TV will link to ny network and can see the AVI files but not play them.
It seems i need to convert them to a Divx format of AVI in order to play these files...
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1 - I want store/keep and have as 'masters' the highest quality of the orginal recordings. So is the best 'original', the orignal DV Tape AVI files or would editing these via CS6 and outputing an MPG or MP4 format be as good as the 'original'.
Despite 15 years messing about with digital editing, i remain baffled by what constitutes 'ORIGINAL FORMAT'.
2 - How can I convert the AVI files from current set up to a Divx Codec that my SMART TV will recognise and play. WIll CS6 do this or Encoder ? I cant see an option.
I've tried all AVI outputs and the SmartTV cannot read any of them.
Regards
Kev.

About 4 years ago I transferred all my old 8/Hi8/DV tapes onto my PC exactly the same as you have done.
The AVI is a standard introduced by Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave gives the detail and history
Smart TV's in 2012 could play AVI's or at least the youtube demo I just watched did so you may want to check the manual to find out precisely what your TV will play
Keep the originals as they are, do nothing to them.
Editing and output to whatever the TV can play, MPG and MP4 should be OK and as future proof as possible.
Try exporting a short say 1 minute of mixed footage to MPG and MP4 and view these, I did just this with my network and Sony TV and they streamed great, then I edited all that old footage to MPG and MP4 (I saved the same movie to both formats just in case).
Do remember that your AVI's will be SD and these will be upscaled by your TV to fill the HD screen
Divx is great but quite lossy and there has been a myrad of types over the years so future proofing may be an issue.
I cannot advise on CS6 as I use CS5.5.
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