Hello everyone!
I am a Flame artist and a producer working for a new in-house build for a two-Mac workstation with a storage bay attached over a server which will also serve grading suites, and eventually also Nuke workstations. I would love to hear thoughts and experiences of Logik users as well, for solution providers such as Quobyte.
Is anyone here aware of their service in perspective of Flame integrations?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Alaz
How big is that facility? i mostly would think that for our usecases SDS and all the crazy features are just a bit… useless/overkill , what do you need what something like a beefy synology does not give you?
If you want enterprise grade SDS stuff maybe you want to check out pixstor - pixitmedia although be ready to say goodbye to your wallet , this is specifically tuned for the tools we work with, they are pretty great when it comes to support e.t.c but in the end its a supermicro or dell or whatever server with their software on it …
There are cost-effective options in the market. A combo Ravel Orchestrate object setup and Seagate server with HDD cold storage & SSD flash storage would be a potential game changer for your situation.
Much belated thanks! The environment’s long been fixed for other solutions, but out of ongoing personal interest, I wanted to check.
Is Ravel Orchestrate a commercial solution or an open-source setup? (Judging by the website, it’s a commercial solution ofc.) And have you used it with Flame’s wiretap/framestore environment directly?
I had a demo of Quobyte and it is frigging amazing, user friendly and awesome. The geek in me totally wanted to go down that avenue. We ended up going with PixStor as it was proven for our use case.
You could look at MooseFS as an alternative to Quobyte for distributed file system but if you wanted an enterprise version then I would recommend Quobyte.
We have been using a MooseFS setup for the NAS from which we ingest footage for the last 5 or 6 years. While it scales pretty well, we haven’t ever gotten the single stream performance out of it we expected. I’m not sure if this is b/c we haven’t built it out crazy enough, I wouldn’t want to run our framestores off of it.
That sounds like an absolute fail of infrastructure. A single NVMe SSD is 10x more performant than that, and a single 2U server could likely provide more storage than that.
It wasn’t ever meant to be a san replacement, but thanks.
That’s interesting because the results we saw from Quobyte were highly performant and I do know of people who have used Moose FS in HPC that have also had impressive results, Injust haven’t tried them for myself.
Ours is likely underbuilt, then. It’s worked great as a place to dump media from shuttle drives and offline prep, though!