Best practices for multiple users on a network?

We have a centralized server storing all of our media, and a Final Share system allowing about 10 clients to connect. The details of the system aren't important, it mounts just like a local drive on each client and bandwidth is higher than FW800.
My question is what is the best way to handle cache files, sidecar files, autosave, etc. when passing edits between editors? What should be stored locally, what can be placed on the server? Of course all media has to be placed on the server, but can everything else sit alongside the footage?
The reason I ask is we started by pointing everything at the server, but now are having the good old Serious Error whenever two editors (in different project files) are referencing the same media. We'd love to resolve this... assistant editors can't log footage if doing so causes the editor's project file to lock up.
Thanks!
P.S. first tried called adobe phone support about this... not making that mistake again. The most apathetic customer service rep I think I've ever spoken with told me they wouldn't provide support because our Serious Error was the result of network issues and not their fault. And then that we should be storing our media files locally. I didn't see it necessary to mention that local storage on 10 machines isn't that viable with almost 50TB of data.

klonaton wrote:
The reason I ask is we started by pointing everything at the server, but now are having the good old Serious Error whenever two editors (in different project files) are referencing the same media. We'd love to resolve this... assistant editors can't log footage if doing so causes the editor's project file to lock up.
Hi Klonaton.
Are you using two Premiere projects or one Prelude project (for logging) and one Premiere project (for editing) ? I'll have to check tomorrow to be absolutely sure but we do sometimes have simultaneous logging and editing with -respectively- Prelude and Premiere through our small network, with no issues.
Changes to metadata and comment markers created into Prelude instantly appears and update into Premiere. Subclip don't and have to be sent from Prelude to Premiere on the same computer (or the media has to be imported again inside Premiere). I think it's normal considering how subclips work a bit differently in Prelude and Premiere.
Every files are on a thunderbolt raid drive shared on the network through an iMac. The Media Cache and Media Cache DB are on the network shared drive too, and common to every users and computers.
Also I don't get if crashes happen when your two projects are running simultaneously or not (in the latter case, that's a huge problem).

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