Apple RAID card for MacPro – did I miss this? Walter?????

[Walter Biscardi]

[Peter Wiggins] “This is new, right? Walter, tell me you’ve been on the beta all this time.”

Nope, never tested it. We’re installing the ATTO R380 SAS cards for our two main suites to run our new SAS/SATA Raids from MaxxDigital.

That card sounds just like what Ciprico and CalDigit were showing at NAB in April.

[Peter Wiggins] “RAID 5 Three or four hard drives Data protection, up to 199MB/s of sequential read performance, and efficient capacity utilization”

That’s too slow for me. We’re getting close to 500MB/s in RAID 5 with the units we’re about to install (8TB each). That’s 8 drives so it’s more drives, but over twice the speed.

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[Peter Wiggins]

https://www.apple.com/macpro/expansion.html

Peter

[Peter Wiggins]

[walter biscardi] “Peter Wiggins] “This is new, right? Walter, tell me you’ve been on the beta all this time.”

Nope, never tested it. We’re installing the ATTO R380 SAS cards for our two main suites to run our new SAS/SATA Raids from MaxxDigital.”

I did say it with tongue in cheek 🙂

Its a lot of RAID5 internally – this will be right up a lot of peoples street, maybe not full on HD editors, but a lot of other people.

Peter

[John Foley]

That’s a new one on me. They must have OEM’d a card from some vendor that provides on-card RAID setup. Interestingly, there must be a way to use the internal drives not connected to the SATA connections on the backplane?

Their price is about triple what you can purchase a similar card from Highpoint!

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Peter Wiggins] ”
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Definitely looks like what Ciprico was showing at NAB, but their card works on an external array.

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[Mitch Ives]

This morning they released a special version for the Xserve that doesn’t use one of the PCI expansion slots… that should help speed up file transfers and backups as well…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
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[Christian Glawe]

Probably too slow for folks who want to work in uncompressed HD.

From HDForIndies.com:

“Key thing of note – 199 MB/sec read speeds under RAID 5. Magic number for uncompressed 1080i60 10 bit 4:2:2 video: 200 MB/sec is the usual recommended number. For 1080p24 10b444 RGB: about 230-240 MB/sec. Whither write speed, Apple? Write speed is almost always slower in RAID 5 than read speed, so if read is about 200, and that’s the minimum for uncompressed HD, where’s the write speed? It is probably lower, and that’s a bummer.”

Also, is the 199 MB/sec over the whole array, or only the outside portions of the disk(s)? Again, could be problematic for the beefier flavors of HD.