From: Pascal Grosvenor <Pascal.Grosvenor@(email surpressed).au>
Subject: configuring Promise VTrak as a Mac OS X renderfarm volume - tips
   Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:49:45 -0400
Msg# 2093
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Hello,

I'm setting up a new Promise VTrak Raid for a new renderfarm i'm building (it's got 16 x 2 TB drives). It will be connected directly to an Apple Xserve. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for how to configure it ?

Given the nature of rendering (having lots of clients writing individual rendered frames back to the RAID) i reason that high write speed is probably the most important feature in choosing a RAID level.

I'm thinking 0+1 would give the highest write performance but then i only get 50% effective disk space. I'm thinking there's probably something in between 0+1 and RAID 5 that could be suitable ... That would give more disk space than 0 + 1 and better performance than 5.

Would love to hear other people's thoughts and experiences.

kind regards
Pascal


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Pascal Grosvenor
Faculty Computing Unit,
Design, Architecture & Building
University of Technology, Sydney
ph   9514 8944

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