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Review of the Sonnet E4P
Here is cool article the guys over at http://www.barefeats.com found. It’s on the Arizona Macintosh User’s Group site. The reviewer actually tested port multiplication with several chassis.
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/sonnet/e4p/
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Hooking mine up this weekend with the new Fusion. 5 500 gig drives. I’ll let you know how it runs…
KW
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These tests were run several times as I wondered if the results were correct. Each time you run any disk testing program the results will be a little different. However, in this test the PCI-X Sonnet X4P was able to substantially beat the PCIe Sonnet E4P write speeds in every test completed with a PM enclosure. When you are using a striped RAID for HD video editing the difference between 196MB/sec. write speeds and 224MB/sec. can be important. It seems odd that a port multiplier enclosure with a PCI-X Sonnet Tempo X4P inside the original PowerMac G5 2.0 Dual provides better write speeds than when using a PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Quad with a Sonnet Tempo SATA E4P.
REPLY – I am BLOWN AWAY by the fact that the Sonnet X4P will run FASTER in the “old” MAC dual 2.7 gig G5, than it will in a new Quad G5. That means that the LUCKY folks that own “old” MAC G5’s can get XServe RAID performance at 1/5 th the price of the Apple, using the Sonnet solution. In the same way that AJA and Blackmagic are kicking the asses of AVID, I am amazed that the “standard, well known” storage companies are not racing to embrase SATA, and let these “new guys” kick their ass.
I hope that the newbies on the list can appreciate the fact that they can get amazing storage, and incredibly cheap prices today, for the first time in our industry.
Bob Zelin
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I figured you would get a kick out of that article. Truly amazing perfomance at that price. Don’t worry though, in just a few weeks someone will be complaining that it is too expensive!
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Hooked up mine today with 5-500Gig drives. What an easy set up. I’ve never done a RAID/Array before and it was a snap. Sonnet has a really nice system between this new card and the Fusion box. I’ll have to do some speed tests this week, but man is it nice seeing a drive with 2.3 TB on it on my desktop.
Not sure I’ll ever max out the speed, as I work mostly in DVCProHD. So, it should be great for me.
More later. Thx.
Kevin
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Hi Kevin,
Keep us posted on your testing. How you tested to see how many streams you can pull from the array?
Thanks,
Gary
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