[Mike Edel]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

In the foreseeable future we won’t go beyond 2 or maybe 3 main editing stations (these will be connected through 10gbe). We just want something more flexible than local storage – while having somewhat comparable performance.

The occasional previewing of files or encoding smaller projects can happen over 1gbe connections.

Btw: we are usually not working on uncompressed HD.

Our setup may even be a bit overdone but given the existing server and switches (4-port) link aggregated 1gpe won’t be that much cheaper and would still be slower.

Mike

[Mike Edel]

@Brandon: thanks for the pointer – seems like I haven’t expressed myself really well:
we deliberately don’t want to set up a SAN (mainly a cost and management issue).

Instead we want to beef up the server’s storage (with an external storage module since our 2 height-unit server is pretty limited in that regard) and share that as a managed share through the server.

You are implying that we only need meta-data controllers if we directly mount the storage – right?
Because that’s what we won’t do at any rate. The storage module is just a second chassis that’s connected to the server’s raid controller as far as I know.

Cheers,

Mike