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So I don't a appear as the paid plant that I am, I thought I would chime in and mention some things that would be nice additions to DigiDelivery.
1-Physical noise- This box has the loudest fans on the face of the earth. It is an absolute must to have a machine room to contain its outrageously loud fans. Perhaps in the future a larger case with some larger, low velocity fans.
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I 100% agree. The fans are so loud that it is ridiculous. I had them in our equipment rack that is one door from the studio (and the racks have doors on them, and it was still too loud. On friday we moved it to the electrical room to get it away from us.
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2-With the addition of the Server to Server relay feature, there is less feedback as to what stage a delivery is in. Before the Server to Server function, a delivery would require the client software to receive a delivery which did give some (but limited) feedback as to the progress and speed of a delivery. This is only an issue if there is a DigiDelivery box on both ends. The Server to Server function can be turned off. Perhaps if DigiDelivery could send an e-mail when it negotiates a Server to Server connection with an estimated time of arrival and or a small application could be created to display connection conditions and estimated time of arrival.
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Good point
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3-In the extremely rare occasion that a delivery gets partially delivered but fails, it would be advantageous for DigiDelivery to have the smarts to decode or open a partial delivery, create a list of the files that didn't make it and allow the remaining files to be send again in a new delivery. Currently if a delivery gets 99% received and fails, you have to start over if it can't figure out how to recover. This is a very rare condition.
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Good point. I had a delivery that failed (as the assisitant moved the server {see above} while an upload was in progress) and I then had to redo the delivery. There was little or no feedback to indicate what the problem was except an innocuous error message in the Delivery log.....
"Error:
What's a '38663163'?"
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4-Forwarding - Might be nice to add a feature that would allow a received delivery to be forwarded to another Digidelivery server. This might be a feature in the GT server already, I don't know I have an LT server.
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5-Alternate use -DigiDelivery would make a great temporary backup storage device. Please give it the smarts to track a session and back up at predetermined thresholds like Mezzo is supposed to. Then if sessions could be archived to multiple DVDs, life would be perfect.
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Yes, but you are extending the usefulness of the server past what it was designed for. But I hear what you are saying and yes, it would be great, but then the 80GB drive in LT would be too small. However, it does touch on the bigger problem of Backups for ProTools. I am seeing most projects now are 'backed up' on drives as they are too large for CD/DVD's and this is not a real 'archive backup' as we know. I spent nearly 2 hrs the other day , creating DVD Backups of 8 Jazz tracks I had mixed, the clients don't like paying for the time and I hate the extra mind numbing work that it creates, and I am too nervous too leave it with the assisitants in case it is wrong. So, lets get a good backup system in the works Digi. Perhaps a "Save as" that can backup (and verify) to DVD media (The hooks exist within OS X and I am sure within XP), Feeding the disks would be less of a problem. I would even buy an LE system if all it did was this!
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Since Digidelivery doesn't allow you to mix, edit, compose, or convert audio but just sends and receives files in a simple and elegant manner, Digidesign just got this box 99% right. There really is very little to complain about. I know that is counter to the fun that everyone has on the DUC. Sorry, it just works. Buy one and see.
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If only it would make a good Cup of tea, mind you it runs hot enough (given the fan noise) to boil water so they are almost there.
My 2c
Simon L.