Ryan Ackland
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Maxx Digital offers a 10gig Final Share system which is a very simple, accelerated ethernet system, that allows multiple users to share the same Hi Def Video media, all at the same time.
An off the shelf Mac Pro with a lot of RAM is used as the server computer. Using the regular MAC OSX operating system, it can have up to 10 users working at once. If using OSX Server software it can have as many users connected as the ethernet switch has ports. Inside this Mac Pro are two PCIe cards - one is a disk drive host adapter that supports the new 6Gb SATA drives. The new drive arrays that support 6Gb drives are running at 1600 MB/sec read speeds, which is really, really fast. The drive arrays can be as large as 128 Terabytes each, and can daisy chain up to 8 of these together. That's a LOT of storage.
The other card in this MAC Pro is a 10Gb Etherent NIC. This 10Gb card hooks up to the back of a special ethernet switch that has 10Gb ethernet ports on it.
Plug in your MAC computer's ethernet port to this special switch. They can be MAC Pros, iMacs, MacBook Pros, MacBooks, and even old G5 computers. Without jumbo frames enabled, it can get about 90MB/sec read times for each computer attached. This means that every MAC computer attached can do any ProRes HD resolution up to and including ProRes4444. And there are no issues with large data transfer, or large render files - it allows render right off of the shared drive volume.
And if that is not fast enough, put in a multiport 10Gb ethernet card in the server. This will allow it to have the extra ports connect directly to other MAC Pro computers that have a 10Gb ethernet card in them, and it can get about 300MB/sec to just these computers, which means that these computers can do uncompressed HD, or multiple streams of ProRes422HQ for large Multiclip jobs.
Maxx Digital Final Share works with all NLE editing software, like Final Cut Pro, or Adobe Premier. It does NOT work with multiple AVID systems; however we can have one AVID connected without issue, that can share media with the other editing systems.
Lifetime support of the system with no hidden fees!!!! Out of the box and ready to go!