Strategy for sharing media between Mac and Windows Premiere Pro

I hope that I write in the right forum, it's here or in the hardware forum.

I'll take the plunge and get a pretty high-end PC to increase my aging Mac Pro for Premiere Pro CS 5.5 (and probably 6 CS as soon as the kinks are developed). Right now my online media resides on several trendy readers fast eSATA RAID 5, on my Mac Pro through some eSATA PCI cards. It works well and I have pretty good bandwidth of 200MBS to 250MBS using this method, I think enough speed for the type of media that I use in my changes, a combination of XDCAM EX, AVCHD, H.264 Canon with maybe 4-5 rivers both in Multicam edits.

Adding from my PC to the combination will complicate things. I want to be able to access the media on my eSATA drives, which are currently formatted for Mac, using filesystem HFS +. I heard that the Mac drive can make Windows well read this file system.

The issue is sharing this media on drives fast enough for both systems be able to modify / access simultaneously. I do not have Gigabit ethernet, but I don't think it would be pretty quickly, I think that practically it tops on about 70 MB/second. I probably need more speed.

Also the Mac can share than the SMB protocol, but does not seem to the current Mac OS 10.7 sharing SMB very well but I test it with Windows. I know for my various boxes of media player, it does not work very well, or at any time to access my Mac 10.7 system via SMB. In addition, SMB seems to be a very slow network protocol. I can share via AFP or NFS, and I think that NFS is the speed you need, do not know if Windows out of the box can cope with this Protocol.

I know there is such a thing as "fiber channel" and other mainly tech to create a fast network, the Mac can also network via Firewire, but I don't think it will be enough or fast. I guess I could see if it was faster than Gigabit ethernet protocol using Cat 6 or what is the last type of ethernet cable. I am doing a shortcut here and see if the large number of people did and what they think works best.

Thanks for all the tips here.

Kind regards

-Keith

I guess there are a lot of variables, but change us on a network using the SMB and Gigabit Ethernet and working with fairly similar media (XDCAM HD 422, XDCAM EX, AVCHD or H264) and it works fine. We have two servers sharing between 3 and 4 editing suites. I think that if you are just sharing between two machines, it should be sufficient.

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