Bob Zelin
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I saw this at NAB. It looked fine.
Why would you not consider the Thunderbolt solutions available from Promise, Maxx Digital, and Areca, which offer the same thing ?Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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Hi Brad –
I wish you had the Areca ARC-1883x !Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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ok –
you have some “unknown” 10G card in the Dell server. this connects to the Netgear GS752TXS switch (one of the 4 10G SFP+ ports on the switch). You take another 10G SFP+ on the switch and connect to the Solarflare PCIe card in your Mac Pro. Now it’s clear.The Mac needs the Solarflare tuning file for increased speeds. Solarflare has one, I can assure you. What I don’t know is if there are any tuning requirements on the Dell Win server side. I never setup a PC as the server with a 10G port – I have only used Mac’s as the server.
Contact me privately if you want more info on the Solarflare.
Bob ZelinBob Zelin
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ok Stephan, you have now made yourself clear.
You have a Dell server, with a single port Solarflare card going into the 10G port of your switch. You now connect your client computers via 1gig Ethernet to this switch.You are NOT going to get more than about 100MB/sec R/W speed over 1GbE. Just because you are using a 10G card in your server, does not mean that this will give you faster speed over regular 1GbE to the client computers. The theoretical bandwidth (line speed) of 1GbE is 125MB/sec, but no one gets this speed. How you were measuring even faster rates than this is beyond me. If you want faster speeds, you get a full 10G switch, and 10G cards for your client computers.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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you must live your life paranoid. You should go to sleep every night, with a sick feeling in your stomach – “will my media be there tomorrow morning – will by boss fire me – will my clients never use me ever again”. If you don’t live your life this way (destined to have ulcer surgery one day), then you don’t belong in the video business.
You seem determined to use your FREE WD Caviar Black drives in the most efficient way, so that you dont’ have to spend one penny. what can I say. The more drives you have running in a RAID 0, the better the speed you will get. But the greater the risk that you have of losing your data. Want better piece of mind – buy an external drive array, that will cost you MONEY. Want to spend less – run on single drives, and back up. Want to have good performance, and still have piece of mind – BACK UP.
there are no miracle answers. You backup or one day, you will lose your media. This applies to everyone on Creative Cow. There is no “what is the best thing I can buy, so that I never have to worry about this” – the answer is NOTHING. You MUST back up to something, or one day, you will be screwed.Bob zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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as long as you don’t have the “Apple RAID card” which was a piece of junk, you can simply stick your 4 drives into your Mac Pro and go to work. If you simply use the Apple Disk Utility to create a RAID 0, just remember that all drive today, including Western Digital Blacks, have a high failure rate, and you risk losing your media – so make sure to back up. The more drives in your RAID 0, the more risk you have of losing more media – but of course, with the RAID 0 on multiple drives, you get better performance.
Nothing wrong with your 2010 5,1 Mac Pro.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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ok, hang on Stephan –
so let me get this straight – you have a single port Solarflare card in the Dell Server and you have a single port Solarflare card in your client computer ? Or are you going into a switch ? All these little details make a huge difference !
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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I hope Brad posts – I hope he says what OS he is using, and what his speeds are.
Looking forward to it!
bob zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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MLogic MTape running PreRoll Post from Imagine Products. One little thunderbolt cable connection.
How simple can you make this ?Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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