Re: XRaid/Cinewave - RAID levels

[ chrispy ] Do you think it would be possible to configure the XRAID in a split setup, meaning two G4s or two XServes connecting directly to the XRAID which each CPU taking half the storage and run CinewaveHD...as according to the specs each CPU should get 200MB/sec throughput but even not sustained we should be able to get at least 160Mb/sec for HD.

This setup is described in the Deployment website of the XServe RAID. Each half of the array would give 200 MB/sec, since each half has a 2Gbps fibre channel port. So basically on a 2.5 TB array, each machine would have 1.25 TB to play with and a dedicated FibreChannel port.

What I want is somehow for both machines to have access to the entire RAID, though, but that would require some SAN software, and so far I haven't heard of people trying it.

--rune