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Chapter 2 About Building a Final Cut Server System

About RAIDs and SANs

Although Final Cut Server can use a wide variety of local and network volumes as

devices for storing and working with your media, a couple of storage solutions work

particularly well with Final Cut Server.

A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) can have some advantages:

Increased performance:

 One of the primary limiting factors in transferring large media

les is the hard disk’s input/output speed. By splitting the data among several hard

disks, you can reduce the impact of this limitation.

Increased reliability:

 Hard disks have the potential to fail at any time. RAIDs can be

congured to supply protection against a hard disk failure, making it possible to

recover the media lost when a hard disk fails.

Having a fast reliable RAID connected directly to the Final Cut Server computer allows

that computer to take advantage of the RAID’s performance. This does not benet the

Final Cut Server clients, however, which must still get the video data over an Ethernet

cable. This is where a SAN can help.

A storage area network (SAN) allows multiple computers to connect to a storage device

as if it was a locally connected device. This allows you to use the media on the storage

device (typically a RAID) exactly as if it was on a local hard disk.

Final Cut Server includes the ability to congure a storage device that is part of a SAN

as an edit-in-place device. Clients that are directly connected to edit-in-place devices

have the advantage of direct access to the device’s media—the clients do not need to

cache a local copy of an asset before being able to use it in a Final Cut Pro project. This

can be a huge advantage when working with large video les.

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