Hackintosh Guidance Requested

[Craig Allan]

Jeff

Referencing an earlier comment you made regarding the use of a SAN with seem less transaction between Mac and PC. In respect of using Resolve, is this as seemless as sharing project files and media files off a common storage system? If so what is your setup?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I have a rather diverse infrastructure when it comes to storage... But for SAN hardware I either roll my own and run Linux or will go with a server from QNAP. There’s a bigger QNAP thread on here, but I’ve had great success with their systems. Budget is a factor and so are the number of users, attached systems, etc.. One of my most recent setups with QNAP on a budget is at my house. Don’t recall the exact model number off the top of my head, but it’s a 16-bay SMB setup with 10G SFP port and I picked it up late last year on sale from B&H for about $1700. Running 6TB Toshiba NAS drives — on sale late last year from NewEgg for $130 each. I’m the only one that beats on the system so it has all the performance I need for an iMac Pro and Windows PC connected to the network via 10GE. The rest of the family uses it for extra general storage and time machine backups of their MacBooks. Real handy as I can access from anywhere with any of my systems/ devices.

As for using with Resolve, it works just fine. We have office installations of some of the larger QNAP systems that are being used for Resolve, Premiere, FCPX...

There are also other higher performance options out there, but the cost really starts to skyrocket with those. A friend of mine runs an animation and game development studio and they have gone with some of the Jellyfish storage systems. He has two workgroup clusters that all connect to a Jellyfish via Thunderbolt, which are in-turn linked to other large storage and I’m not sure if that’s multi-10G or something else on the server to server end. It’s really cool, but really expensive.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Jeff

Referencing an earlier comment you made regarding the use of a SAN with seem less transaction between Mac and PC. In respect of using Resolve, is this as seemless as sharing project files and media files off a common storage system? If so what is your setup?

Thanks in advance.

We run with this thing. Can sit as a hub between 6 workstations running 10GBe over Thunderbolt3 cable or cat6 or fiber. 4 tb3 machines and 2 10GBe machines. Our hacks does not like the tb3 network protocol so I swapped a TB3 card out so I got two 10GBe x2 cards and one TB3 card.

Anyway. It runs without hiccups and we got 3 PC's a trashcan and 2 hacks hooked up to it. One PC and the trashcan is using the TB3 ports.


We got it with 12 x9 TB drives in it. At the beginning speeds where full trottle over the 10GBe network but after a while things goes slightly slower. However it got slots for 6 ssd´s and there is software to run a cache for current projects on that extra cache raid. So that should, depending on what size projects you work on off course give you full 10GBe speeds atleast to one machine at the time and possibly more.