G Raid Mounted on Two Comps?
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Well you could always hook any fw drive up and see ...
Think you'll find that the protocol doesn't allow that.
I've been looking at doing something similar and keep coming back to Xserve (if you on a mac) and prolly with fibre channel. Expensive ? you betcha.
In your case though - for just drop box ,why not good ol ethernet ? Though that might not be too practical if you want to edit as well ....
Think you'll find that the protocol doesn't allow that.
I've been looking at doing something similar and keep coming back to Xserve (if you on a mac) and prolly with fibre channel. Expensive ? you betcha.
In your case though - for just drop box ,why not good ol ethernet ? Though that might not be too practical if you want to edit as well ....
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Graeme_Nattress
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With FW drives, the first computer to see the drive takes it. For shared storage, there's basically two options:
1) A server style network share solution (NAS)
2) A SAN, where the storage is connected direct to all machines, but there's some special arbitration software to stop clashes.
SAN's are expensive, but if you need one, then you need one. Here's what I'm using: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/metasan_nattress.html It's not cheap, but it's very good and very fast. I'm guessing if you don't need the uncompressed HD speed, a NAS might be appropriate for you, or just file sharing over gigE.
Graeme
1) A server style network share solution (NAS)
2) A SAN, where the storage is connected direct to all machines, but there's some special arbitration software to stop clashes.
SAN's are expensive, but if you need one, then you need one. Here's what I'm using: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/metasan_nattress.html It's not cheap, but it's very good and very fast. I'm guessing if you don't need the uncompressed HD speed, a NAS might be appropriate for you, or just file sharing over gigE.
Graeme
Graeme_Nattress
Red Team
A beast and no mistaking..... Noisey as hell too. Trying to get some longer fibre cables to move it to another room....
Graeme
Graeme
Graeme_Nattress
Red Team
MetaLan is like a SAN over Ethernet, where your shared storage has a fast connection to one computer and a faster than normal GigE connection to the others. It's cheaper than a SAN, but not as fast. The demo is free, so it's worth looking at though to see if it's faster / easier for you.
As for better than fibre - there's 4Gb fibre becoming more and more common. There's also 10GigE. We'll have to see what happens.
Graeme
As for better than fibre - there's 4Gb fibre becoming more and more common. There's also 10GigE. We'll have to see what happens.
Graeme