Big Hard Drive Arrays

[Arlene Glass]

Caldigit S2VR is highly recommended by many people, and we can see why after we’ve used it
About Two weeks ago, we got one HD unit from them.
The installation went very smoothly with no troubles at all. The module was easy to install and worked exactly was advertised.
We plan to buy another 2 units soon.

the feedbacks on their site may help you to make decision.
https://www.caldigit.com/Testimonials.asp

hope this helps.

[Gary Adcock]

[michael Belanger] “Has anyone had the priveledge of using either the new G Tech G Speed or the Caldigit HD raid solution? I am looking to upgrade and these two solutions came up in conversations”

Michael,
I have had one of G-Tech’s G-Speed Fibre arrays since they started shipping, and I have to admit that I was originally skeptical on the unit, BUT it out performs both my Xraid and my Medea arrays. I am getting=in the neighborhood of 215 mgs a sec. sustained with RAID 3 protection. If I choose to use one of the 6 drives as hot spare I still maintain over 180mgs a sec with RAID 3 and Hot Spare.

I am currently testing the MetaSan software with my G-Speed that allows me to connect 2 G5’s to the same array for small shared storage solution. Fibre channel is the only way to go if you are really thinking about working in HD, it is easy to add additional storage to with a fibre switch, something not possible with SATA.

gary adcock
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[Walter Biscardi]

I would also look at the Ciprico Media Vaults as well (formerly Huge Systems). We just installed a 5TB 4210 4gig FibreChannel array that’s giving us almost 500mb/sec in RAID 0 and should come in over 350 in RAID 3. Also has a RAID 6 option.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Nikolas T]

I choose Caldigit’s 5 drive RAID. But I think both Caldigit and G-Speed are good. While both of them are using the latest serial ATA HDD, Medea and Ciprico(HUGE) use old PATA drives.

If you intend upgrading to SAN, G-Speed is good choice. But you need to buy expensive fibre channel PCI card like ATTO.

Caldigit comes with PCI host card. So you can get much more capacity at the same budget.

[Neverhome]

I have just received an enews from caldigit, see https://www.caldigit.com/eNews/10-25-2006.html

talking about 2g limitation with Mac Pro. They seem to resolved this issue?
has any people tried their sata card in Mac Pro when installing more than 2GB meory?

I have 8GB ram in my new Mac Pro, waiting for an external RAID to get the new project done.

Cheers!