SAN storage practical list of options

[Stephen]

Not likely to be doing av edits directly but we will need some fair io

The server backend is likely to be a stack of xenservers. The best
part is we will be building the datacenter from scratch



On 4/19/09, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a bad choice
> on either, but be warned that you will be spending over  $100K  to get it up
> and running right. Are you going to be editing the video while it directly
> stored on the SAN or is the SAN just going to be a repository? If you are
> planning on editing directly from the SAN then be sure to get the 15K fibre
> channel drives. You will also want lots of drive to distribute the disk I/O
> across as many spindles as possible. The number of clients attached will
> dictate how many drives you will need. I don't remember the ratio, but if
> you want it I'm sure I could find it.
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of
>> the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why?
>>
>> it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the
>> markey speak...
>>
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Stephen