Raids at NAB…

[Bob Zelin]

there were many wonderful storage products at NAB, and i will write an article for Cow next week, about what I saw. As always, there is a wide range of prices for the new products that are out. There are lots of variations of how you can do things – depending on what you want to do, and what company you trust, there are different solutions.

Many companies are relying on the ATTO FastStream to do 4 seats of shared storage via fibre. These products require MetaSAN or XSAN to run. Others like CalDigit, use a PCIe switch to hookup to multiple computers and multiple HD Pro drive arrays. And others like Maxx Digital are using gigabit and 10Gigabit ethernet for connection. And coming soon is the 6 Gig drive products, which will change everything for a lot of people.

Wait for the article.

Bob Zelin

[Simon Blackledge]

Cheers Bob will do.

See Walter got a sneak peak at a 10GigE option ?

Also see enhance finally have an expander in the desktop 8 bays..

Never made NAB.. maybe meet ya nxt year finally! 🙂

Cheers

Si

[Bob Zelin]

In my opinion, buying a RAID array without an expander option (so you can daisy chain in case you run out of room) is just crazy today. Everyone needs more and more storage, and saying “I will never use more than 8 TB of storage” means that you never intend to be successful, with lots of projects.

10 Gig is pretty amazing, and once the 6 Gig products come out (drives, expanders and host adaptor cards), 10 gig will be a simple reality for cheap shared storage for uncompressed HD and 2K in our business, and in my opinion, obscure any small FC based system. And this stuff should all be fully released sometime in 2010. Seeing 2K DPX files running over a 10Gig twinax ethernet cable with no dropped frames is pretty amazing. Once the drive speeds increase with 6Gig technology, doing 4-6 system like this will be as simple as normal ethernet networking.

Bob Zelin

[Matt Geier]

Simon,

Don’t forget, 10GB for Mac has been around for a very long time.

It’s only been since the introduction of 10.5 / 10.6 and Small Tree’s FCoE Development for Mac OSX that is driving a lot of connectivity now.

As the performance improved in AFP, it because viable to move larger data sets on the network / not so much for video editing although 10Gb has been being used for that as well …. (for example if you had multi clip, or the need to edit more then just a couple of video streams per client at the same time..)

As the introduction of 10Gb hardware comes out on Motherboards, the prices will start to drop making it a viable installation for most…

Also with convergence happening, people will need to take the backbones and revamp them with thing like 10Gb where they have Gigabit and so forth!

Just my $0.02

Matt