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Share the raid over Gigabit network
I have quad G5 connected to Xserve Raid. I am buying a new G5 and want to use the same xserve raid with it. (as you would guess, I am working with uncompressed HD) I know that I would need a Fiber channel switch for that and Xsan software and xserve. But I was thinking if I could just use the the xserve raid over the usuall network? So do you think it is possible? or should I drop the idea?
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3 Replies
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For uncompressed HD? Not a chance. For DV…possibly, but I doubt it. But no way will it work for HD. Need XSAN, or MetaSAN, or SANmp…some video SAN network.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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This doesn’t help you, Levan, but I wanted to confirm for Shane that, yes, DV will work just fine!
I have a firewire 400 RAID on my G5 Powermac. The Powermac is connected to an intel iMac over a gigabit ethernet network. Accessing media on those firewire drives, I’ve edited 3 camera shows using the multicam feature on the iMac. It works just fine!
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Remember that the network connection is only telling the software what files it needs to play back. It is not actually sending all the data thru the pipe, only sending commands to the drives which files to play. In the old Stratasphere editor the Mac Host sent signals across 10 BaseT Ethernet to a PC based Media server. The Mac only had the video processor, the media server had the RAID and the media. So the Ethernet connection is pretty efficient at shooting these commands across to the Xserve.
Uncompressed HD? I doubt it, but you can probably edit quite a few different formats using the ethernet to access the media files.
Try it. Let us know if you get it to work.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media
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