[Yov Moor]

Hello I manages San server in my post office with metasan (fiber 8g, qlogic switch 8g) and also metalan for some computer attach with Ethernet 1g.
I like metasan and metalan for the simple deployment. But I manage feature film with almost 120000 sequence file in one folder! We use osx and windows, on Mac we avoid using finder for copy or move file because about latency and also sometime the volume hangout, so we most use the terminal for doing copy and move.
On windows part the explorer are more faster and stable but the cmd is also better.
The metasan configuration are not more stable or faster about latency than metalan, just faster for the bandwidth with fiber or other.
I think this latency problem are more about of the nature ntfs or hfs+ manage by metasan or metalan between computer, because ntfs and hfs+ are not made for sharing throught San structure compare to cxfs or stornext fs and so one.
Metasan and metalan are the same latency because they both used the Ethernet for metadata reading write acces to the volumes.