Thunderbolt Storage

[joshfrog]

Hi Guys and LTT Team

 

I was watching some of you play lists on networking the other day and you guys like to 10X network speeds or use crazy fast networking stuff like the 40gbps and 100gbps, but was wondering why you havnt looked at thunderbolt for storage server. I know you have used thunderbolt for egpu's and other videos.

 

Now i am well aware of the limits of thunderbolt 3 such as super short cables, not being able to run cables in the wall, and not the cleanest option. 

But thunderbolt 3 cards for desktops are cheap, many laptops come with it or have an option to get it.

You guys did review an optical USB 3 cable that did have a thunderbolt 3 option in 60m so you could run long thunderbolt cables to your editors. 

Anyway just an idea

 

Thanks

 

 

[samcool55]

5 minutes ago, joshfrog said:

Hi Guys and LTT Team

 

I was watching some of you play lists on networking the other day and you guys like to 10X network speeds or use crazy fast networking stuff like the 40gbps and 100gbps, but was wondering why you havnt looked at thunderbolt for storage server. I know you have used thunderbolt for egpu's and other videos.

 

Now i am well aware of the limits of thunderbolt 3 such as super short cables, not being able to run cables in the wall, and not the cleanest option. 

But thunderbolt 3 cards for desktops are cheap, many laptops come with it or have an option to get it.

You guys did review an optical USB 3 cable that did have a thunderbolt 3 option in 60m so you could run long thunderbolt cables to your editors. 

Anyway just an idea

 

Thanks

 

 

Can you access 1 thunderbolt storage device from multiple clients at the same time?

If you can't, then there's why they don't.

 

It's a must for LMG to let multiple people access 1 file at the same time.

[joshfrog]

yeah i get that, i work for a media company it would suck if only 1 person could access it, but the cards you can buy for desktops have 2 ports on them and you can daisy chain ports.

[LunaP0n3]

The primary editing server that they use has NVMe SSDs with a 40Gb setup, so the 4 editors in the den that have 10GbE NICs in their towers aren't bottlenecked by 1Gb connections, and they use NVMe for the latency improvements. If you want to know more, watch this:

 

[joshfrog]

i didnt know it emulated 10Gbe, i have it sharing storage from my server. i get about 600mbps thats just with 4 WD Red Pro drives so i havnt gotten close to the 10Gbe let alone the 40.

 

I dont think thunderbolts the answer to everything i am just curious.