Dylan Penhale wrote:
Hi guys
We looking for post production houses that use EMC NAS based storage
systems, for both 3D and 2D as we are interested to hear how they
match up against Netapp NAS systems. We realise that EMC has a strong
foot hold in SAN markets, but we like the NAS simplicity and rem
aware of GFS based technologys (such as Netapp purchase of Spinniker)
that will enable NAS systems to inherit many SAN type capabilities.
Could anyone suggest any post houses that use EMC?
I know a few folks in town testing out EMC's Sledgehammer..
I'll take one of them out for a beer, and try to get the skinny for you.
The big question is, how well does it handle when >40 machines are beating on it.
~30 to ~40 machines all rendering dual proc on a gigabit net is usually enough
to make most PC based file servers go 'paws up'..
If EMC's box can handle the load of that and more (eg. >100 machines),
then they might really have a good alternative to the 'spensive NetApp's and BlueArcs..
which are probably worth every penny though.. cause we know they work well
in production at large shops under heavy load.
I definitely can't say that for the current state of any of the
"PC based" file servers; linux, windows and osx.
I believe EMC's product is Linux based, but if they've highly tuned the
kernel and file systems, it may well be the case it can handle the load..
I'll see if anyone's gone through a large production with it.
So far, I think I've only heard of people evaling it.. might be
a year before people have actually dragged it through a few productions
to get any real solid data. But I'll ask around..
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