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samsc
18-02-2005, 07:19 PM
g-raid firewire 800 raid

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=30850
jasonrudolph
19-02-2005, 02:42 PM
Are thee fast enough to actually use for playback in catalyst? If so, how many layers do you think you could do at the same time?
samsc
19-02-2005, 03:02 PM
these things always give around 3 layers.
whether they are fast enough to do what you need to do - you will have to try and get a demo and test it.
it is not the benchmark data rate transfer rate that is important - it is the access times and rotational latency of the drives.
these things are dependant on the drives inside the raid, not the raid itself.

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We are currently testing xserve raids for speed, and getting at least 6 dv layers.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/
jasonrudolph
20-02-2005, 02:56 PM
We are currently testing xserve raids for speed, and getting at least 6 dv layers.
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/


Have you tried using the one xserve RAID with multiple machines yet?
samsc
20-02-2005, 03:23 PM
no.

Im trying to get an xsan demo asap at apple- to do this properly,

I think you need to run a fibre channel network between computers as per apple docs-

this is apple's 'video workflow' node configuration:

http://www.apple.com/xsan/videoworkflow.html
samsc
20-02-2005, 03:26 PM
Have you tried using the one xserve RAID with multiple machines yet?

Peppe was very interested in this configuration as well for an upcoming show
jasonrudolph
21-02-2005, 04:37 AM
Yeah, am doing a show with 5 servers as we speak, and am prepping for another one in a few weeks with 5 or 6, and might have the budget to purchase some disks, just trying to figure out the best route to go with.
samsc
21-02-2005, 07:49 AM
do you have any relationship with apple locally to you?

( and can you check your email address on here- email to you keeps getting bounced )
samsc
21-02-2005, 07:57 AM
Yeah, am doing a show with 5 servers as we speak, and am prepping for another one in a few weeks with 5 or 6, and might have the budget to purchase some disks, just trying to figure out the best route to go with.

Jason.

Do you know anything about fibrechannel switches?
jasonrudolph
21-02-2005, 10:44 AM
do you have any relationship with apple locally to you?

( and can you check your email address on here- email to you keeps getting bounced )


Don't really have much of a relationship with apple here yet.

Fixed my e-mail.
samsc
21-02-2005, 06:07 PM
jason.

whats the cost of fibre channel switches that work with xserves raids where you are?

have you looked at the approx cost of doing a raid network?