Greetings,
Our bins average about 50MB each and our editors usually will have 4 or 5 open at a time. As our projects grow in size we experience very slow bin saves. By slow I mean a spinning beach ball for up to 10 seconds per bin. This is way too long for our workflow when we have a director in the room. All of our client systems are connected via 1Gb ethernet. We are using a Terrablock system but I hear people of the same issue on an Isis.
Next month we are planning on switching over the Avid Nexis system which gives me the opportunity to redo our switching environment. I've been thinking of moving all edit systems over to 10Gb ethernet with the intention of improving save times. I don't care about bandwidth as we only use DNxHD36 with at most 9 MC seats (at the moment).
Does anyone know if I should see improved save times with 10Gb vs. 1Gb? I would think so because 10Gb has much faster latency but maybe it's the server or MC software that actually slowing things down and faster networking may not help.
Thanks for any input regarding this.
-Cablet