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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Sonnet Qio + Mobile REDRocket

I'm the guy with the bad Qio right before the Alexa gig and had to network MBP and MP with cat 5 (cat 6 probably better but didn't have that cable on me). I was getting 70-90Mbps transfers to 3 RAID destinations with Shotput Pro. Not bad. Not Qio but not bad. One thing I found was it's better to eject SxS from my MBP first and let MP prompt that it's no longer available. If I ejected the SxS from my MP system got a little buggy and had to restart.

Good news was that Sonnet replaced my Qio on the spot no questions asked when I drove down to Irvine to also work on my iStoragePro mobile Raid cause it's been having problems and causing kernel panics. Guy at Sonnet said that beginning Qios had problems but they rarely hear anything now. Hoping mine was just a bad apple out of the bunch and reliable from here on out. I also can't daisy with Qio and mobile rocket raid.

As for the MobileRaid, I had to leave that at iStoragePro to continue to test. Dinh has been very helpful but I can't say I feel like the system is ready for prime time even though he said multiple others are using it on features, etc...

MBP 4,1 15"
MP quad 2008
OS 10.6 on both
 
I also had the Sony USB SxS from rental house just as a back up for the Alexa gig, btw.
 
I consulted this thread back in July in preparation for an intense shoot. I went ahead and purchased two Sonnet Qio units along with the connection cards for MacPros and Express34. I ran them on an intense 6-camera shoot with Sony EX3s and EX1s and GoProHD cams and Zoom audio recorders. So the SxS cards and SD cards were flyin' up to the Data Wrangling stations constantly for 7 days straight.

I had the Qios hooked up to a 17" MBP, an 8-core MP tower and a 15" older first generation Intel MBP. The older 15" was the only one that was finiky. It took 5 minutes to start up each time after installing the drivers. But it did work fine after that until the 5th day. That's when I put the Qio on the tower instead and all was fine.

Ingest was through ShotPut Pro to 2 attached eSata drives (attached to the Qios) and a third destination on an internal drive on the MP (through a local ethernet hub).

I will say that one of the express34 adapters was DOA, and I had to drive down to Irvine the day before the shoot to get it replaced. They were quick and helpful.
 
Thanks for sharing your experiences guys.

It would be great if you can keep us updated if the issues with the Red Station or MXO2 get fixed. Thanks.
 
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