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[Bob Zelin]

Alex,
I now have a better understanding of the situation. You said “when I came here” – which means that this is not your personal equipment. It’s your bosses, and he said “I spent a lot of money on this equipment, and I am paying you a lot of money, so you better make this expensive equipement work for uncompressed HD and 2K”.

If you email me your phone # or your bosses phone # at maxavid@cfl.rr.com, I will be happy to set your boss straight as to what his EXPENSIVE equipment can and cannot do.

A MODERN 8 bay SAS/SATA drive array can do over 500mb/sec. A modern 16 bay SAS/SATA drive array (like a Dulce ProRX) can do over 800mb/sec. Let me assure you of something – with a 24 bay array, if you can’t do over 218mb/sec, SOMETHING IS WRONG ? Don’t know what is wrong – well, YOU BETTER HIRE SOMEONE THAT DOES, because you are not going to get painfully detailed diagnostics on a user forum.

I can tell you one fact, however – you are NEVER EVER going to be able to do 2K at 218 mb/sec – EVER !!!

Now, it’s easy for us to say “go out and buy an ATTO 42ES” – but it’s not our money, and its not your money – it’s your BOSSES money, and he doesn’t want to spend a penny of it, because he already spent a lot of money on the Infortrend, and useless LSI Logic host buss FC adaptor. WELL TOUGH S#$% – it ain’t gonna work, unless he throws some cash at it.

The Infortrend FC chassis is “industry standard” in LA, but not many other places, but it can certainly be a FAST product (certainly with 24 drives) if you use the right host buss adaptor (like ATTO), and if it is setup correctly.

Bob Zelin

[Christopher Tay]

Hi Alex,

May I know where I can find info on the incompatibility between the Apple LSI FC HBA and the Infortrend A24F-G2430 RAID storage ?

-chrispy

[Alex Varas]

Hi Chrispy,

Give me a shout alexin (at) thechimeneypot.ru and I will send you the XLS I got from their support site, you have to be registered to enter there.

Best regards,

Alex

[Alex Varas]

Hello!!

Thanks again for your posts, its very kind from you all the advices.

Now its time to get the ATTO, install it and make some tests. anyway if the infortrend wont work, ATTO wont be a waste of money.

It will take time to take it, however I will post my tests here to let you know or to ask for help to a proper ATTO config.

All the best,

Alex