How would you build a server?

[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/

[litemover]

I would build a simple sompact server using:

1. Macbook Pro 17" ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM dual link(current highest grade model with latest Radeon Video Card)
2. FirmTek SeriTek/2SM2-E dual SATA output card (up to 300mbs transfer)
3. FirmTek SeriTek/2EN2 Dual SATAe enclosure with 2 148gb Raptors
4. Matrox Triple head to go digital.
5. AJA I/O for SDI/composite/component input
6. Zandar DX 16 for multiple viewing
7. 1 30" Dell 3007 Flat Panel Dual link LCD.
8. Enttec Datagate 8 port UDP to DMX output.
9. Artnet 2 port input box.
10. Rolling carry on case.
11. Wireless Apple bluetooth Keyboard and mighty mouse

Larger system
.Macpro dual 3ghz
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 SDRAM (2 x dual-link DVI)
.5 Raptor 147gb Drives (Removing the second optical drive and using it for a raptor boot drive) Stripe 4 of the raptors in Zero mode.
.Firmtek Seritek Sata card to drive the boot drive.
.Matrox Triple head to go digital.
.Zandar DX 16
.30" Dell 3007 Flat Panel
.Decklink HD STUDIO PCIe HD/SD switching input card with sony deck control
.Geffen DVI-D Switchers
.PCI-e USB Card with internal USB port for dongle.
.4gb Ram
.Kensington Expert laser trackball.
.ADC to DVI converter
.Imagepro HD/SD
.PCI-E 8 port serial card.
.Cisco 24 port GB Ethernet Switch
.Artnet in.
.2 Datagate 8 port
All cables and adaptors.
Compact Rackmount case.
Multi System I might include an Xserve, Xserveraid and Xsan with fibre distro system, fibre channel cards for each system etc...

Christian Choi