Might as well for a bit - no high capacity/bandwidth storage

is available for the new machines.

I've come into a bit 'o coin with the sale of Denver house and have been wanting to do that record album I've been meaning to record for the past umpteen years. So I started looking for the core of a killer digital audio workstation with massive disk/size and speed.

So looking at the super duper quad with 8G of Ram, now I need something to feed it fast. The obvious high end solution is the xraid over fibre channel. However, at 5k for a half filled rack of disks adding up to a terrabyte of striped storage, its a mite pricey.

Hearing great things about sata II but the new macs have pci-express slots - 4x the throughput of the older pci-x - would try to find an 8 port card and load up a couple [link|http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2600|minig's] to do mirrored striping (for safety).

Anyhow, the pci-express cards are simply not there. Apart from xraid there doesn't seem to be any really high bandwidth redundant storage suitable for pro audio recording on these babies yet.

It's got me waiting to write the check. Were a solution available, I'd place an order today.

Post #233,973 by tuberculosis 11/14/05 2:09:10 AM 8/21/07 5:53:31 AM Reply	Might as well for a bit - no high capacity/bandwidth storage is available for the new machines. I've come into a bit 'o coin with the sale of Denver house and have been wanting to do that record album I've been meaning to record for the past umpteen years. So I started looking for the core of a killer digital audio workstation with massive disk/size and speed. So looking at the super duper quad with 8G of Ram, now I need something to feed it fast. The obvious high end solution is the xraid over fibre channel. However, at 5k for a half filled rack of disks adding up to a terrabyte of striped storage, its a mite pricey. Hearing great things about sata II but the new macs have pci-express slots - 4x the throughput of the older pci-x - would try to find an 8 port card and load up a couple [link\|http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2600\|minig's] to do mirrored striping (for safety). Anyhow, the pci-express cards are simply not there. Apart from xraid there doesn't seem to be any really high bandwidth redundant storage suitable for pro audio recording on these babies yet. It's got me waiting to write the check. Were a solution available, I'd place an order today. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:53:31 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #233,979 by broomberg 11/14/05 6:30:26 AM Reply	Even older SATA is faster than FC for sequential FC kills SATA on multi-user acesss random IO. A 3ware raid card and a bunch of SATA disks will allow you to write at around 380MB per second (IIRC, I posted those numbers about a year ago). Site search should show them but I gotta run
Post #234,044 by tuberculosis 11/14/05 12:51:18 PM 8/21/07 5:54:44 AM Reply	But is it pci-express? that seems to be the issue, there are no mac compatible pci-express multiport sata raid cards on the market just yet. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:54:44 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #234,046 by tonytib 11/14/05 1:01:03 PM Reply	Areca is PCI-E x8, but no Mac support [link\|http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pciE-sata.htm\|http://www.areca.com...tml/pciE-sata.htm] [link\|http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20051031/index.html\|http://www.tomshardw...051031/index.html]
Post #234,097 by tuberculosis 11/14/05 4:03:55 PM 8/21/07 5:55:52 AM Reply	Yep, heard of that one - they could sew up the mac market if they'd hurry up and add support. All the pros are gonna want that. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:55:52 AM EDT Expand All History

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