Install 10.6.8 on Thunderbolt Mac Mini & Promise SANLink

March 20, 2012Blog, Tips

With the new SANLink Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel adapter from Promise shipping recently. I wanted to add a couple Mac Mini machines to the XSAN for Tosh.0.   The problems?  The XSAN is running 2.2.2 on OS X 10.6.8.  That means the Mac Mini’s, which only ship with OS X 10.7, wouldn’t be a good … Read More

Qmaster Distributed Encoding on an XSAN

June 20, 2011Blog, Tips

A lot of people have set up their systems to utilize compressor’s Qmaster feature on their own system in order to use all available processor cores when encoding videos. But what if you have multiple machines with access to file-level shared storage, like XSAN.   All client computers can have access and write access to … Read More