Media Server Options

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Andrew –
I am not familiar with the QNAP. If you get the QNAP with a 10Gig interface, then you need a 10Gig card that goes into your Mac Pro server, that will connect to the QNAP. What this really means is that you need to MAKE SURE that the interface card has 10Gig drivers. Most 10Gig ethernet cards to NOT have OS X drivers (which is why so few companies offer this !).

So yes – if you can confirm that you can have a 10Gig card for your MAC, that can connect to the QNAP interface, then yes, you should get teriffic performance. Again, I am not familiar with the QNAP, but there must be enough bandwidth in the box to allow for shared storage. I recently put together the usual multiport ethenet card with link agg and a drive array with only FOUR drives in it, and it was not fast enough to perform (like I am used to with an 8 drive array).

I would love to hear your results. And if you want to try a multiport card with your ES4528V switch, just let me know, and I will send you one. No charge if it doesn’t work.

Bob Zelin

[Paolo Castellano]

Hello Andrew,
have you tried to run the BMD disk test on both Macs at the same time? However I’d be happy if you will share the result of the QNAP-ES4528V 10GbE setup (if you will get it).
Cheers,

Paolo.Castellano@ivs.it
http://www.ivsEdits.com
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“Post Fata Resurgo”

[David Norden]

This is for avid, but perhaps interesting for you…
xmcorebeta.wordpress.com
Its a software we are developing that turns a mac into a shared storage/project server for Avid.

/David