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teatimebing
10-12-2006, 12:54 PM
The environment I currently work on is on a windows domain, over a CAT5 cabling to gigabit switches, on a fibre backbone. Currently CAD and DTP designers are using a single RAID 10 SCSI server for all their work.

We will soon be implementing a video editing/comp workflow.

My question is, is it just as fast, faster or slower to use a network setup as I have described above for saving/storing video than say an internal SATA 2 or PATA hard drive? 2 Users will be accessing the video storage.

Cheers
Rich
payton
10-12-2006, 01:14 PM
are these CAT5 cables gigabit compatible? i think it needs at least CAT5e to support gigabit. if we dont know the performance of your ethernet, we cant tell you what will be faster.

payton
teatimebing
10-12-2006, 01:37 PM
Sorry yes Cat5e :D where needed they can be changed to CAT6
payton
10-12-2006, 01:45 PM
well, it seems like you are fairly deep into these technical stuff, but there are so many different SCSI standards that its impossible to say what the performance of your network is.

just test it. there´s a tool from canopus, called "rextest". this will test the read/write performance of your harddisks. maybe it can check your network drives, too. its free - google for it.

the transfer rate of SATA harddrives will be available on the internet. i think it will be approximately about 40-50 MB/s.

good luck,
payton
teatimebing
10-12-2006, 02:23 PM
I can't seem to find Rextest anywhere, I will try emailing Canopus, going to go and try the old fashioned method witha stop watch!

Cheers for the advice dude ;D
payton
10-12-2006, 09:58 PM
i think this is allowed here, because its free.

after checking it i think it will not recognize network drives. :(

you will need to check both types of connection with your stopwatch to get reliable/comparable results.

payton
teatimebing
10-12-2006, 10:36 PM
That's awesome thank you! will try it first thing in the morning
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