Yep you would be hard pressed to make that work from a performance standpoint, unless your artists are mainly Photoshop etc. But if you had to...I would forget the RAID 6 and stick with RAID 5, get the artists to work locally wherever possible, and either render at night or if you have decent switching set up QoS to throttle back the renderfarm requests.

I had to support 15 Maya artists a few years back in a 'transition phase' that lasted 3 months! Used an IBM x445 and a single Xraid as DAS. Good times.

Dave

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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Darcy Danger Reno [peetoose@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:29 AM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: windows storage server

Agreed - It wouldn't work well and would be a disposable purchase.

This would actually be a good application for one of the BackBlaze boxes.

Once you get through this transition phase - the system would still be useful as a nearline backup or snapshot server of some sort.

darcy

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Terry Dale <Terry.Dale@starz.comTerry.Dale@starz.com> wrote:

With only 8 drives the load of 10 artists will grind your server to a hault never mind adding the 30 render nodes. You need to get your spindle count up if you want any kind of reliability.

Terry

Terry Dale Starz Animation Toronto Sent from Blackberry

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From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.comstudiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com To: discuss@studiosysadmins.comdiscuss@studiosysadmins.com Sent: Fri Sep 11 01:10:15 2009 Subject: windows storage server anyone have experience with windows based storage solutions? Something like Raid6 with 8 drives to serve 10 artists and less than 30 render nodes, 4 GigE ports?

i need to bridge a storage gap in our IT transition right now and need a temporary solution that is leans more on safe than fast.

thanks

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