Each edit suite had 12TB of local Thunderbolt 2 storage with a Pegasus2 R6 drive configured in RAID 5 which was used to hold the working daily FCPX library, as well as an archive of previous days’ libraries. Each edit suite had access to a daily growing file of the incoming feed from France and was connected to the SAN via a dual 4GB fibre link using the SANLink2. Softron Movie Recorder was running on two Mac Pros which gave Vsquared TV up to 8 channels of HD recording. Vsquared TV had four edit suites with high-end Mac Pros linked to a 70TB SAN where all of the media was stored. The Fastest & Most Advanced Editing Suites Vsquared also decided that some fast locally attached storage would be needed and PROMISE had the ideal solution for this as well – Pegasus2, the industry’s leading hardware RAID 5/6 storage solution with Thunderbolt 2 that comes in 4, 6 and 8 bay models in addition to the compact and portable M4. SANLink2 was critical to this project as without it Vsquared TV could not use the immense power of the new Mac Pros as there would be no way to link them to the SAN. This was the first time Vsquared TV would be using a Thunderbolt bridge and Apple advised them to approach PROMISE for the SANLink2, a compact device that allows a Thunderbolt 2 host computer to directly connect to a Fibre Channel SAN. It was determined that the software would best be run on Apple’s new Mac Pro computers which required a Thunderbolt™ bridge in order to connect to a high-speed Fibre Channel SAN. When Vsquared was considering a switch to Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) for the 2014 Tour de France there were a number of challenges to be solved. In 2005, Vsquared TV was amongst the first to use Apple’s Final Cut Pro software connected to a SAN in live and near live situations.
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