How would you build a server?

[samsc]

hugh just got one.
it looks like a mini g5 tower. dont know which one it is.
he had 5 scsi drives inside it.

i got mine from granite digital. they do pro-quality scsi cabling.
http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg03_cases.htm

glyph, and medea also do rack mount units.

http://www.medea.com/

glyph do nice rack mount cases. road tested for audio application.
http://www.glyphtech.com/site/home_intro.html

im sure other people have suggestions.

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10.3.5
hugh and i are working through the last bugs right now.
we are almost there.

[samsc]

Highend thinks it has the answer.

But they have only answered the question from their own point of view.

There are many variations on this theme

http://www.highend.com/support/digit...tsupportguide/

[litemover]

hugh just got one.
it looks like a mini g5 tower. dont know which one it is.
he had 5 scsi drives inside it.

i got mine from granite digital. they do pro-quality scsi cabling.
http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg03_cases.htm

glyph, and medea also do rack mount units.

http://www.medea.com/

glyph do nice rack mount cases. road tested for audio application.
http://www.glyphtech.com/site/home_intro.html

im sure other people have suggestions.

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10.3.5
hugh and i are working through the last bugs right now.
we are almost there.

The Mini G5 tower looking racks sound like the Huge systems MediaVault u320R available from hugesystems.com. They are awesome and the single channel version will get you well over 200 mb/s reads. They are reasonable, I got a quote of $2800USD. The downside to them is that in order to get the max performance, you must put them in turbo mode which partitions the drives so only the prime areas of each ATA drive is used. This lowers your capacity.

Still a great product.

Not sure if that is what Hugh bought.

Christian Choi

[Spam Butterfly]

http://www.hugesystems.com/Products/...=MVault-U320-R

I bought one of these. Kick arse video performance and good value for money. On a good day, I can get 8 (yes 8) streams of DV PAL wiggling around out of it. I can get 4 streams of SD uncompressed video...

Hugh

[samsc]

i heard a rumour that the xraid works quite well- though i have never tested one.

they are very expensive but they have huge caches - 512MB/channel, and i think they must do some command priority processing as well.


http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/