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XServe RAID copper fibre cable distance
Ah, it’s been so long since I’ve been to the Cow…
Way back in 2003 I had originally installed FCP, AJA KONA and XServe RAID via copper fibre to a G5 (Now a Mac Pro) and was told that the copper fibre limit was 1 meter. Now, the edit rooms have moved around a bit and the 1 meter copper fibre length is a problem. I have found longer cables available online, but I do not know if there would be either a data integrity or data speed problem (or both) if I were to use a 5 meter length:
https://www.cs-electronics.com/apple-xserve-cables.htm
Anyone having a problem with >1 meter copper fibre to XServe RAID?
thx – Steve Covello
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4 Replies
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Why not get some fiber optic transceivers and a fiber optic cable?
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We tried to do a 5m copper run… and it seemed to work 90% of the time, but then 10% of the time we’d get all sorts of weirdness on that particular station.
Go fiber optic. it works beautiful. You’ll need a fiber cable with LC/Duplex ends and a pair of SFP transcievers (Finistar makes all that I’ve ever used)
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I was hoping to avoid buying new host cards on both ends. I’ll look it up. Any suggestions, or am I confined to just Apple cards?
Steve
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You don’t need new host cards – just a fibre optic cable and one of these at each end:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFP_transceiver
-Simmie
6 MacPros – Kona 3 & Kona LH
1 G5s – Kona LH
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