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4 or 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel
We have been using Kona 2 for a while now in 10bit SD and DVCPro HD. Now we are looking to purchase storage to handle all formats of HD in a direct connect config (non SAN) to Dual 2Ghz G5.
looking for thoughts / suggestions between
Atto Celerity FC-42XS Dual 4Gb Fibre Card with
HUGE Systems 4GB Fibre MediaVault 4210 – 1.6TBApple Fibre Channel PCI-X Card with
Apple X-RAID 5.6TBconsiderations:
Apple X-Raid has been out in its current config for a while – is it soon to be outdated/upgraded ?
Is 4Gb Fibre too new ?
what better fits into a SAN config in the future ?
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Just to give you my input as I’ve been testing the same config of the Huge 4210 and Celerity 42XS and so far I’ve got nothing but high praise for this product. I’ve been testing it both under Mac and Windows and it works really well. I can even play 2K files out of the 4210 in RAID3 mode as the throughput on both channels when striped reaches close to 600MB/sec. You’ll have no problem doing HD 4:4:4 in future.
4Gbit is relatively new, yes, but Huge as we all know, comes out with fantastic products. I’ve nothing against the XRAID as I’ve used it before but the only thing I “hate” about it is that it takes forever to set itself up as RAID0 or RAID3 when you configure it. On the Huge, it takes two beeps to change from one RAID mode to the other.
As for SAN, I believe Huge has tested the 4210 with MetaSAN from Tiger Technology and I’m going to test it with SANmp when I get the chance. Will post findings when I’m done.
-chrispy
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Brookes,
let me add this. If you go to huge’s site and search the knowledge base for article 101 it will show you how fast the drive is as it fills up. Even at 90% capacily in RIAD 3 it will give you over 200MB/sec. it shows you single channel speeds as well. The aja speed tester raates the thing at about 490MB/sec in Riad 3 mode striped across two channels.
https://www.hugesystems.com/Support/
click on search the knowledge base and enter 101.
In Raid 3 you loose about 25% of your drive space so a 4 terabye turns into about 3 terabytes.
David
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