Backblaze has done an amazing job over the years of analyzing drive life span and failures. 100TB used to be $100k, these days, you can drop a zero off of that cost! The right question to ask is how old is my storage. Storage gets more and more affordable every year. Hopefully you have more than the 2.5TB that was included in the original Xserve RAID storage array! Many older Xsan systems have between 16TB and 200TB of storage space. Plus no need for a metadata controller! Re-purpose Your Xsan Storage Array? This is mainly due to the fact that with a high speed NAS the data and metadata both go over a single connection. At least not in a 10GbE high speed NAS enviorment, which is the most common type of storage network for video production teams now a days. No, your Fibre Channel HBA's & Switch won't work. Many facilities already have copper cabling in place ready to go. There is no performance difference in most cases and often the cost of a copper 10GbE switch + cabling is less than a 10GbE fibre optic switch. The exact same Fiber Optic cabling used for Xsan clients is commonly used for 10Gb Ethernet.ĭespite cabling already in place, many facilities have opted to switch to Cat6 copper based cabling. The same FIber Optic cabling can be used for Fibre Channel - or - Ethernet. Click Here for a video on the difference between Fibre Channel & Fiber. I would like to go back in time and slap the person who named the Fibre Channel protocol, it's confusing. Here are some practical items to look at when replacing your Xsan. Here we are, all these years later and many still need to migrate away from what was once the gold standard of fibre channel networks and collaborative workflow. Crushed! Betrayed! At least we have Avid, right?!? Damnit Avid don't do that! Video editors everywhere were crushed when after months of not hearing from Apple we saw pics posted on Facebook with an iPhone. We texted Apple, there were read receipts, but no replies. Finally it was here! A storage area network designed specifically for Final Cut Pro. Apple launched xsan clients for the Mac OS, purpose built Xsan storage, MacOS Server, a metadata controller and even fibre channel HBAs. Apples Xsan changed the world for video editors forever.
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