We would only put our name on a solution that worked with all major creative tools (FCPX/FCP7, AVID, Resolve, Premiere, After Effects, Nuke, Pro Tools, Logic, etc.) and within multi-platform environments (Mac, Windows, Linux). The ability to run multiple high performance 10G users from a box that quietly sits in the room with you that allows your team to seamlessly cut 4k (and higher) video with no beachballs is now here and we built it. That changed a few years ago with the advent of 10G ethernet, and over the last few years, ethernet based NAS solutions have gone from feeling cheap, buggy, and poorly performing, to now being significantly faster, better, cheaper and easier to support than any shared storage in the industry. Fibre based solutions used to be the only things that could handle video and were the only game in town for media professionals. The reality is that technology has changed a lot since Xsan came out. After a few years of intense R&D, multiple prototypes and installations we developed an all Ethernet based platform optimized for real world collaborative workflow. Just like you we found it to be over-complicated, loud, inefficient, hard to setup and troubleshoot but what other options were there? Eventually we became so unhappy with the performance, lack of documentation and support we began looking for an Xsan alternative. LumaForge was founded by people who used to integrate Xsan systems. We know your pain we understand what you’ve been through. Worst of all, you’re sick and tired of calling in your Xsan person and having them poke around your unit for two hours only to suggest rotating it a bit so that it’s a little more in tune with the moon’s orbit. If any of this sounds familiar you’re in the right place.
#APPLE XSAN STORAGE MAC#
On top of all this, you’re completely dependent on a pair of aging Mac minis that better not fail leaving you and your team in a perpetual state of fear with no real understanding of how it all works. It’s extremely hard to set up new clients, there’s virtually no documentation, and the GUI is so inaccurate that you’d better be a command line expert to get the information you need. Maybe you’ve noticed that it completely falls apart with FCPX Libraries, Resolve, and Premiere projects or seen the performance issues with 4K whether you’re ingesting or doing any operations that require a bit of bandwidth. Today, however, the Xsan platform is increasingly unsupported, harder to troubleshoot, and the moment you start to push your Xsan even a tiny bit a beachball shows up.
#APPLE XSAN STORAGE 720P#
If you’re like a lot of people working in video today, you’re probably finding that your Xsan is no longer cutting it. It used to work great with your SD and 720p media in Final Cut Pro 7.
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