Start with something like this:
http://www.promax.com/Solutions/FastMAXMiniSAS/
Attach it locally to a single workstation. Share the volume out using AFP by doing the following:
- Connect both workstations to each other with GigE, this can be direct or through a switch. As long as they can ping each others IP addresses you're good.
- Set up the storage locally to the more important workstation, we'll call it Mac1
- On Mac1 go to System Prefs>Sharing
- Select File sharing and turn it on
- Under 'Shared Folders' hit the '+' button and select the storage you want to share
- You should see the other worksationk, we'll call it Mac2 under the users column on the same screen, make sure Mac2 has read/write previledges.
- Go to Mac2
- Open your Harddrive, on the left side under 'devices' you should see an option that says 'shared' with Mac1 underneath it.
- Select Mac1
- There will now be a 'connect as' button, hit that
- Put in your user name and password for Mac2 and hit 'connect'
You should now be able to read/write to that storage from both workstations. This will not give great performance, if you want to help it a bit you can use jumbo frames and add a GigE HBA. But you should be able to do light DV/HDV work sharing that way. It's a good solution if you need to keep costs way down.
Then when you are ready, you can take the same storage and dedicate a Mac tower to hosting out the storage. This will allow you to increase performance later.
Nate Cooper
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