Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 64641

> Making everything local is not always logical/practical. We're working off a 77 TB server with 30 machines. Should we get each machine its own 70 TB array?

You must have missed my previous post on Tuesday about this – it goes over this. All 30 machines don’t need all 77TB. It’s intelligent infrastructure and workflow design.

At my IMAX’s film production Max Q, I have 25 machines and 250 TB on servers. All 25 machines worked 100% local. Networks only mirrored/synced/backed up depending on workflow.

Workstations working directly off network storage is slower, more expensive, more prone to failure and a huge waste of time and money.

From: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 2:29 PM
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] Constant hangs when switching between apps

On Nov 14, 2018, at 11:20 AM, Stephen van Vuuren <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Yeah, on the biggest projects for the film (the ones that took 2 days to open) we disable the prefs in AE to check any footage at all for changes. Turn that off if you have files on network or much better yet, get all that stuff local.

Making everything local is not always logical/practical. We're working off a 77 TB server with 30 machines. Should we get each machine its own 70 TB array?

While this AE hang thing is annoying and should be addressed, my guess is trying to synch up local storage on a whole bunch of machines would be even more annoying.

That said, with our NFS network setup the Macs cruise along but the Windows machines are much slower to access files on the network. We pretty much only use AE on Mac for this reason. Switching to SMB might fix Windows, but then maybe the Macs will be slow? We're contemplating it.

Brendan