Kona2 and ability to do Uncompressed HD

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bob Zelin] “REPLY – you will get faster performance from the Fusion 500P, the ProMax array, or almost anyone else with 4-5 drives.”

Bob, I just received some benchmarks from LaCie with 2 S2S units striped together showing 370 MB/s Write and 390 MB/s running in JBOD mode. 245 MB/s Write and 244 MB/s Read in 1+0 Safe mode.

How does thish compare to the Sonnet 500P? Speeds running in JBOD mode are actually a bit faster than I’m getting currently with my 10 drive FCR2X. Even running in safe mode they are showing some very good speeds.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Ramona Howard]

Bob,

We have been shipping using 3Ware controllers for close to 2 years now and they offer RAID5 mode and just like Medea, Huge and others RAID all works the same :). Not familiar with XServe and why there is an issue but SATA and RAID is pretty straight forward, given you know what your doing.

(After initial testing of a slew of controllers we went with 3Ware because of their roadmap for development and customer support)

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Andy,

We are using 3Ware and these give us a variety of options for configuration, depending on the customers needs.

We are doing everything from a single card in either RAID0 or RAID5 to multiple (up to 3) cards in a system either running separate arrays or arrays striped in RAID0 or RAID5.

A software RAID will get the job done, given you have enough drives (depending on format) but the ideal solution is to let the hardware do the job.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Bob Zelin]

Walter –
the results you have posted are faster than the ProMax or Sonnet Fusion. I almost don’t believe you !

Bob

[Bob Zelin]

Walter – I just looked at your previous post, and you said in your previous post that you only got 135mb/sec – now you are getting dramatically faster results ? Whats up ?

Bob

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bob Zelin] ”
Walter – I just looked at your previous post, and you said in your previous post that you only got 135mb/sec – now you are getting dramatically faster results ? Whats up ?”

135mb/sec is a single S2S unit running in Safe Mode. The faster speeds are benchmarks from Lacie with Two units striped together running in both JBOD and Safe Mode. Hence the much faster speeds.

I just want to know if these speeds with two units striped together are comparable to what you’re seeing on your Sonnet units, either a 10 drive unit or two 5 drive units striped together.

Pricing on the LaCie’s would give me 5TB for about $5,500 which is incredibly cheap.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[David Slater]

Another option would be a couple of MacGurus Burly Boxes
https://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/BurlyPortMultiEncl.php
I have a 2 of the 5 bay models
I get +300MB/s

DAVE at Movies Rock in Toronto

[David Phillips]

How is the sound level on the MacGurus/Burly boxes? Say, compared to a G5.

thanks,
david

[David Slater]

bout the same as my quad

DAVE at Movies Rock in Toronto