AM I looking for SAN and thinking NAS?

[Igor Babic]

I am courious what did you do? At the time that you start this tread I was already gone your route, dedicated xeon with 3ware 9550 sata raid controler on raid 5 and 8 new sata2 WD250 with 16MB cache, dual intel pro1000 Glan, and open-e operating system with nas software on chip that goes in pata port ( very cool thing ). Today I have receive all components and in a 2 hours I was up and running. I am doing audio for video on 3 nuendo workstations, and fourth is for in/out ( also with nuendo ) and some. All those machines are standard P4 Asus with onboard glan. First tests are very good. So far I was testing the speed of copying to NAS from workstations. I was getting from 20-30MB/s per machine from 3 machines. Fourth was busy localy today, so tommorow NAS will bu half full and I can make real tests. Switch is d-link office Glan switch, nothing fancy. I am waiting for d-link managed glan switch. With this switch I am planning to use link agregation and jumbo frame, so I can make biger thruput. I am also wating for a Intel dual glan cards for workstations. My bussines is noth RT SD video editing or even HD. Video that I use is mjpeg compessed 13:1 320*240, and just a couple of audio channels. I was very scared when I have seen answers to your thread. I am not encourage you to do anything similar, those big guys are shurely right, but just for your info I am also thinkig that this can work for you at some level. If you are intrested in some specifics about my project please leave an e-mail. And check out https://www.open-e.com/data_storage_solution/server/service_and_support.php?lang=en&subserv=prodcomp and find ther system requirments and compatibility. PS They dont know anything about video, I have ask them, so be carefull… I will test this with 3 uncompresed SD workstations in my friends studio with procurve switch next week.