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Ethernet sans server setup
Hi I’ve been reading the various articles and posts about SANs networks and wanted to run by what I was thinking for a setup based on what I’ve read here:
In my network I have 2 mac computers which I want to connect to my media server via Ethernet.
A. For the most part there will only be one person on the network at a time accessing media. Based on that, would having a gigabit ethernet connection provided an adequate amount of bandwidth for using FCP? (I wont be digitizing directly to storage, just playback)
B. I was going to get either a dual NIC or two NICS , that way i can bypass getting a switch / router. (since I will only be having two computers connect to the server, is there any benefits/ need to have a switch or router?
C. I have read about link aggregation. For my setup, would you only recommend me doing that for the instances where two users are on at the same time accessing data? From my understanding it doesn’t give me more transfer speed, but only each user get the max bandwidth?
I would appreciate your thoughts and opinons on this before I implement this into my network.
thanks!
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3 Replies
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MAC Pro computers have 2 ethernet ports. Why do you want to get another NIC card ? If you only have ONE computer working at a time (and not two computers reading from the same server), you can pull this off. The minute you have the second computer try to access the server, your system will hang up.
What you want to create is the simpliest Apple File Sharing network, just like any office would have, except you will only use one computer at a time. You don’t need to buy anything.
bob Zelin
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Yes, very simple setup. I actually will be using a PC as my server, so thats where i was thinking of putting the extra NIC cards into.
Now of course when two users are on at the same time it will bog down, but by having a separate ethernet cable running into each mac computer from the server, fix that problem?
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in my opinion, you will never get this to run with a PC server.
Bob ZElin
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