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Chris Vrakotas

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Hi,

I'm about to buy a storage server for my MacPro, after a research I have almost decided for the following:

1. Infortrend EonStor A16F-G2430-M5 19"Rack-3U; 16-Bay SATA HD; 2x FCAL-4gbit; RAID-0/1/5/6 (http://www.span.com/spanstor_system.php?products_id=8516)
2. Apple's Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card

The projects i'm about to deal with, is feature films and the material will be R3D, 4K 2:1.
The workflow will be:
1. Editing in FCP
2. Color grading in Redcine.
3. Color grading in Color (in needed)
4. Compositing and fx in AE CS4
5. 2K dpx output files

Is this configuration ok?
Do I need anything else?
Is the extra cost for Quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card worth it?
Is there any special settings for the storage device which will boost the performance of the whole system?

Any piece of advice is welcome:)

Thanks
 
Dear Evangelos,
Yoy're right, the 24-bay is better than 16-bay
As far as for the FC card, If the storage has connection for 4G FC, how can we take advantage from 8G FC?
 
i hope there will be one soon(thats affordable), I've been looking into 10G iscsi
 
Chris,

I did a feature documentary with the Facilis Tera Block & it preformed great!

Let me know if you need any information...in short it is an enterprise class cross platform storage solution for projects that require a secure level of redundancy.

Dave
 
David Birdy said:
Chris,

I did a feature documentary with the Facilis Tera Block & it preformed great!

Let me know if you need any information...in short it is an enterprise class cross platform storage solution for projects that require a secure level of redundancy.

Dave
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Hi Dave,

As far as redundandy is concerned, the storage has to be Raid 5?
What is the difference (in any) between Raid 5 & 6
 
Raid 6... to lose it, its 3 disks that have to fail...
Raid 5 is two disks and you lose it...

Raid 60 is the best performer... but 24 disks -4 for parity the capacity is 20 disks... but fast, very fast...
 
Evangelos Achillopoulos said:
Raid 6... to lose it, its 3 disks that have to fail...
Raid 5 is two disks and you lose it...

Raid 60 is the best performer... but 24 disks -4 for parity the capacity is 20 disks... but fast, very fast...
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Thanks for the info Evangelos.
 
The difference between RAID-5 and RAID-6 is that RAID-6 uses two drives for parity instead of just one. So, the array will operate even with two drive failures. You need at least 4 drives (versus 3) to build a RAID-6.

The distinct advantage of RAID-6 (over RAID-5): If one drive fails, the second parity drive will keep the array fully intact without risk of data loss while the failed drive is replaced and rebuilt, whereas there is no such guarantee of full data integrity during the rebuild of a RAID-5 in the same scenario.
 
CaptainChunk said:
The difference between RAID-5 and RAID-6 is that RAID-6 uses two drives for parity instead of just one. So, the array will operate even with two drive failures. You need at least 4 drives (versus 3) to build a RAID-6.

The distinct advantage of RAID-6 (over RAID-5): If one drive fails, the second parity drive will keep the array fully intact without risk of data loss while the failed drive is replaced and rebuilt, whereas there is no such guarantee of full data integrity during the rebuild of a RAID-5 in the same scenario.
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Thanks for the info
 
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