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Re: Metasan Recommendation
by Allan White on Sep 23, 2009 at 9:45:56 pm

The product is good, I think - I've been having trouble with my network so it's hard to tell. I really like the product philosophy (floating metadata masters means fewer required servers than XSAN, the Gig-E LAN client is cheaper, management from any machine, you can format the RAID as you wish, etc.).

My problem is basically that I didn't budget enough for proper support, which I plan to remedy. Support contracts are around 30% of the cost of the licenses for a year. It sucks, but if you do it get the support. There's just a lot of complexity around file-level SAN storage, and no free lunch. Take it from me, I've learned the hard lessons...

- Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.

Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, MetaSAN, CatDV Server

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Metasan Recommendation by William Morales on Sep 17, 2009 at 6:14:40 pm
- Re: Metasan Recommendation by Allan White on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:18:43 pm
  - Re: Metasan Recommendation by William Morales on Sep 18, 2009 at 11:27:29 pm
    - Re: Metasan Recommendation by Allan White on Sep 23, 2009 at 9:45:56 pm
- Re: Metasan Recommendation by Bob Herzan on Sep 21, 2009 at 3:28:21 pm

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