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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