• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  XServ RAID as storage

  Posted by Fargoross on July 27, 2006 at 7:29 pm

  We are looking at implementing two FCP Systems into our Production house. We would like to get an XSAN, but that looks like it may be done ‘down the road’.

  In the meantime, if we purchased the two FCP Systems, and hooked up to to an XServ RAID (One system plugged into one side, one system plugged into another) and used that as our storage system, would that be fast and effective enough to work? My main concern is the speed comparison between a 2Gbit Fibre channel that would hook this up, and say a Rourke Data Galaxy RAID setup.

  We mainly edit uncompressed SD (Beta SP, Digital Beta), MiniDV, and we will soon be implementing DVCPRO100 (Via P2 Media)

  Thanks!

  -Ross Hendrickson

  Fargoross replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 27, 2006 at 7:33 pm

  Oh, it will be PLENTY fast enough. And you can hook one G5 to one side of the XServe, and the other G5 to the other. BUT…you cannot share the entire XServe without XSan, or MetaSAN, or SANmp.

  2Gbit Fibre is plenty fast for even uncompressed HD, given enough RAIDed drives. And you fall well within that range.

  Shane

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  Fargoross

  July 27, 2006 at 7:43 pm

  [Shane Ross] “Oh, it will be PLENTY fast enough. And you can hook one G5 to one side of the XServe, and the other G5 to the other. BUT…you cannot share the entire XServe without XSan, or MetaSAN, or SANmp.

  2Gbit Fibre is plenty fast for even uncompressed HD, given enough RAIDed drives. And you fall well within that range.”

  Excellent. That is what the initial plan is. With the hope of adding the elements of the XSan down the line.

  We would utilize a set of four 500GB drives on each side to tap into to start with, and then max it out, and reformat with the implementation of the XSan.

  Thanks Shane!

  -Ross Hendrickson

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