g-raid firewire 800 raid

[samsc]

g-raid firewire 800 raid

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/...e.jsp?id=30850

[jasonrudolph]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.