A few Kona 3 Questions

[Walter Biscardi]

[Colin McQ] “I know of Walter’s experience with the S2VR HD, although I have read many good things about it too! (Really!?! you had 3 units go south on you?!?)”

3 died in 6 months and CalDigit could never recover the media for us. If it wasn’t for us religiously backing up the data to a LaCie FW800 unit, we would have been totally screwed.

Bob still likes them though.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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[Gary Adcock]

[Bob Zelin] “Gary’s response suggests that you purchase a QLogic Fibre Switch, plug all your fibre workstations into it (along with your Fibre array), and VOILA, everyone sees everything including the storage, just like a simple ethernet network.”

Tough Bob,

The reality is no, there is no such thing as plug and play with any kind of Multiuser environment, and I never said that all I did was snap my fingers and “poof” everything was config’d

However, I was able to configure the array, install software, switch and fibre connections in about 1/2 day. This is about what YOU would need for 2 of your own machines considering how many machines the both of us have configured for the usage in the past. This was not blind faith, it was just experience.

If this was an Xsan it would have taken 2 days and 3 computers to do what I did with my 2- Macs, the Metasan software and a single Gspeed ES unit in less than 6 hours.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Gary Adcock]

[Colin McQ] “The more I read… the more I like the GSPEED… According to them you can get write speeds up to 560MBs and read speeds over 600MB/s!! (with 4 units striped together in raid 0.)”

I have NEVER been able to attain that kind of throughput with less than 10 drives in an array- it cannot be done.

My speed tests on the 6 drive unit were about 295 MBps sustained asynchronous transfer – more than fast enough for 1080 4:4:4 RGB but not enough for 2K.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Colin Mcquillan]

[gary adcock] “I have NEVER been able to attain that kind of throughput with less than 10 drives in an array- it cannot be done.”

Should have been more clear,, by 4 units I meant 4 GSPEEDeS stacks (each with 4 drives for a total of 16 individual drives in 4 units)

each unit/stack (4drives) in raid 0 is rated I think 207MBs write and 227ish read, but apparently you can add up to 4 stacks to the G-Tech 4-Port, PCIe x4 RAID Controller for a total of 16 drives to get the 600+MBs read speeds

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC

[Gary Adcock]

Sorry Not a Sata guy,

I prefer fibre because I want a redundant backup, I cannot recommend any storage for HD that does not have the ability to be redundant in case of drive failure.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Walter Biscardi]

[gary adcock] “I prefer fibre because I want a redundant backup, I cannot recommend any storage for HD that does not have the ability to be redundant in case of drive failure.”

That’s why all of the major SATA units run RAID 5 to RAID 10 these days. My Maxx Digital units are both set up in RAID 5 and during testing we popped a drive out during 10bit Uncompressed HD capture. The units kept right on humming.

So if redundancy is your main concern, you can achieve that with SATA today.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.

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