SAN reccomendations for FCP

[Matt Gottshalk]

I recommend Edit Share.

https://www.editshare.com/

[Phillip Powell]

…we talking here? Very interested for my facility, and would like to pitch to management,
but some ball park cost range would help.

Any idea?

Thanks

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[Russell Lasson]

It really depends on your setup, but a 4 seed SAN could cost somewhere between $25-$35K. I went the ebay route and spend about $17, but ebay isn’t for everyone.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Sean Oneil]

I spent about $5k for an iSCSI SAN. It’s about 4TB, and there is dual-gigabit ethernet going to 4 seperate machines. MetaSAN software for 4 seats was another $4k. “Small-tree.com” sells dual channel ehternet cards.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[mattziegler] “We are looking at 3-4 seats on the SAN all running 1-2 FCP with DVCProHD and ProRes HD Streams. We want to move to a 4GB solution. Can the Cow Guru’s point me to a solid SAN solution?”

Facilis is one of the priciest but the absolute easiest to run. You only need a Fibre Channel card for each seat. No management software as the entire SAN is managed by the hard drive array itself.

Ciprico makes very solid SAN solutions as well and I will be testing a ProMax solution probably next month with 2 units running off one of their Fibre arrays.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[David Jahns]

I asked this exact same question and got a lot of responses over at the SANetworks forum.

Go check it out….

[Phillip Powell]

Just the input I was looking for.

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