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WHAT BANDWIDTH SHOULD i GET WITH THIS SET UP?
Hi Guys
Heres what I got
3 X FCP SYSTEMS KONA WITH XSAN AND FIBRE CHANNEL BASED
XSERVE
QLOGIC SWITCH,
XSERVE RAID ( ONLY 1 TB 4 sata DRIVES)How many streams do you think I should be able to get with only 1TB
Do I need to upgrade and fill the raid with drives ASAP?I have one machine capturing from digi beta and another machine editing and I’m dropping frames everywhere
Is this my problem?
Thanks for the help
Paul
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4 Replies
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You really need a fully populated Xserve RAID. Anything less is just not worth it for any kind of “speed” you also need other drives for a metadata volume for XSAN.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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I agree with Graeme. More spindles equal more throughput. Fill out the spaces and your performance will increase.
There’s also a fair amount of arcane settings when configuring your X-SAN. Did you have a qualified installer help you set it up?
mark
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yes i had someone install it but im wondering what bandwidth do I get if I populate it
can I use standard sata drives?
apple are giving me a 6 week delivery time on delivery on extra drives!
Paul
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Who installed it? An XSR should never be sold with less than a FULL compliment of drives. What are you using for your metadata controller? Where and how are you storing the metadata?
On a fully populated XSR you should be getting a conservative, reliable 300MB/s read and 200MB/s write when configured as two RAID5’s RAIDed 0, ie RAID50, direct connected.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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