Hello, I work at a facility that edits with Media Composer. However we have a new creative director that insists on working in Premiere, and would like to outsource editing to editors who work in Premiere. This is frustrating for me as we have an ISIS 5500 with a huge library of footage on it ready to... (read more)

Very frustrating issue we've come across. To set the stage...months ago we had a power outage that left our ISIS5500 with a lingering red "metadata error". All continued on as normal. Last week we had a drive fail and so I replaced it. But we keep getting errors like "FAILED TO GET... (read more)

There was recently a big thread on the ACSR line discussing a sudden rise in disk errors for ISIS5500...some were chalking it up to end of life cycle on drives. How long have you had your 5500? We've had ours for a little over 5 years now and have replaced 3 drives, with Dirty Block Threshold errors... (read more)

Avid ISIS Blue Square Event Message: Dirty Block Threshold Suppressed for Disk 1...Normal Ops... Dirty block threshold reached for disk 1! Beginning backoff... These two lines filled up an entire page of my System Logs in the ISIS 5500 storage manager. Has anyone seen this before? -Kyle (read more)

Hey all - I'm geting Disk Performance Degraded warnings on our ISIS 5500. It keeps referring to DISK 1. I'd like to replace the ISB but none of the LED indicator lights are red so I'm not sure which one to replace. A couple questions: 1) Is DISK 1 referring to the ISB in the very top left... (read more)

Hello all, I am being asked to build an ISIS 5500 build that I have never done before. I am hoping I can get some help here. I will have 5, Media Composer clients using the Ivy Bridge Mac Pro's with Sonit TB expantion chassis and 10gig Miricom cards. All five clients will be cutting in DNxHD 220... (read more)

I just received this warning on ISIS 5500 4.5. Should I be worried? WARNING 12/20/2016 11:41:34 Avid ISIS Storage Manager ISIS DISK 1 bn 3285639 LBA 0x64450e00000 seqNum 0x0 Long Disk IO on DATA READ DiskIOTime 1.382036 WARNING 12/20/2016 11:41:34 Avid ISIS Storage Manager ISIS DISK 1 bn 103085 LBA 0x3255a00000... (read more)