Recent content by rgbaguy

Hey guys, my apologies for the very late reply, and wow, have I been gone a while, whole new look to the forum! Had so much to deal with lately. I'm back now! Thanks for the replies! Will have a look at paragon, thanks! Any luck on your research on the server OS? I'm afraid I'm the last...

Hey Laa-Yosh, thanks for the reply! Well have looked at a 6 x 1TB drive storage server in RAID 10 for storage. That gives us 3 TB, which should be fine. Once the drives are full we just backup... This will also be the server that runs our queue master and licensing... As for tape, I guess I...

Hey guys, all sorted on the hardware side :) Have got costs for everything we need including switches and uplink modules (finally!) One question on the network side of things, any standard CX4 cable will work? Will need a 50cm/1m CX4 for switch-to-server link and a 5 m for the...

Thanks for this Karoshi, that definitely cleared up some of the tech jargon :) Ouch, that must have pissed him off :D You make a good point, well this is pretty much the biggest supplier here, so no other options. Yeah, been struggling to find out what comes standard. Thanks for that, will...

Thanks for the reply MfA :) Ok, will look at those. Oh hardly, it's difficult getting information out of them! I have said to them, look, we need so and so. They aren't doing that, its getting annoying. Will tell them if they aren't prepared to find something that fits our requirements then I'll...

Hi guys, Is this card suitable (for workstation and server)? Intel NetEffect E10G81GP http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-030160.htm http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/320918.pdf I'm still confused with the switches, is this one suitable...

Hey guys, I'm having trouble finding a switch. I just can't seem to find switches with 10 gig uplink included (appears they come as a separate module?) 3Com Switch 4200G 48-port (3CR17662-91) with 1-port 10-gigabit Module (3C17666)...

Yeah, totally. Will definitely keep spares on hand. I'm close to getting a final spec together, still waiting for quotes from our supplier. Will post the specs as soon as I have worked them out fully. Thanks for help guys :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_10#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29 Thanks for your reply Blazkowicz, it helped alot :) I think RAID 10 will be perfect for us :)

Thanks for the replies guys! :) Sorry for late reply, got caught up with work Ah ok, I thought transfers were done at a constant 300 MB/s for SATA-300's and so on... Hmmm True, SATA should be ok then. Can you explain a bit how to setup caching etc on the fileserver? RAID 10, cool Woah...

Actually thinking about it, the render-lighting/compositing workstation will be reading/writing data to the storage server. This workstation should have a 10Gb network card installed to maximize throughput. A 10Gb card has a bandwidth of 1250 MB/s, and judging by how big some render passes can...

Thanks for the replies guys! :) Will have to work out how we will scale up the farm, might be cheaper to just get a 48-port switch, maybe not. Will run some numbers once I have more information. Cool, 2.6 MBytes/s is enough for each blade? Seems on the low side. 10 sec to copy over a 26 MB...

Thanks for the reply -tkf-! What you have said is very true. The last job we did, we had 3 machines rendering off a shared drive, saving the renders to the shared drive took as long as the actual render took in some situations. I think our onboard cards are 100 base, I can't be too sure. I...

Sorry didn't see your reply. Cool, ok. This is proving a difficult one for me

Woah, these 2 uplink 10GB switches aren't cheap. Perhaps standard 48-port gigabit will be fine?