Quote Originally Posted by litemover
Apple's Xsan file system will retail for $999. The Xsan switches will likely range from $3500 to $10,000 to start and quickly fall as it is not proprietary technology. Xsan and Motioni both won for best of show at this years NAB.

Christian
With any kindof of SAN system, the important criterion for what we do is not the headline data rate - but the latency...

The latency of a system is how long it takes to get information out of a system after the request is made.

Our systems are crippled by latencies.

SAN systems can have high data rate, but also have high latencies that make them unusable for doing random frame accesses and seemless loops.

Remember christian -- all the non-linear editing programs can work from a timeline going in one direction - forwards - these systems know whats going to happen next - AND when its going to happen.

I dont know when you are going to hit the bump button , or run a cue.
I cant do the same optimisations as a non-linear editor.