Re: [Avid-L2] Adding RTR320X chassis's to XW8400 and alternative storage

Looks like it is a SCSI issue. Ass I remember, Videoraid RTR does not
support SCSI Chain configuration. Correct me if I am wrong.

Frank

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Nigel Gourley <
avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a reason for only one chassis per channel? I wanted to have 2!
>
> Thanks
>
> N
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> Dom Q. Silverio
> Sent: 22 November 2009 20:01
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Adding RTR320X chassis's to XW8400 and alternative
> storage
>
> If you have the 10 drive model, that is actually 2 arrays in one case.
> Each array consist of 5 drives (in RAID 5 in protected mode).
>
> You can only have one chassis per channel.
>
> Nigel Gourley wrote:
> > The RTR's we have have 10 drives in already so can we have 4 chassis's?
> >
> >
> >
> > N
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> Of
> > Dom Q. Silverio
> > Sent: 22 November 2009 19:16
> > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Adding RTR320X chassis's to XW8400 and alternative
> > storage
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes you can have up to 2 chassis (4 groups of 5 drives) per system.
> >
> > Nigel Gourley wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there a reason we couldn't add 2 sets of drives to one machine. I
> think
> >> it would be fine but I might be wrong..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So I mean 4 rack mount arrays striped together as one space, with 2
> >>
> > chassis
> >
> >> on each scsi chain. We have 4 chassis which would be 10TB in total. I
> >> imagine we need short as poss cables.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Also What are alternative storage solutions for XW8400 with Nitris
> >>
> > symphony?
> >
> >> Sata card and sata drives? Any recommendations?, If we wanted to have
> >>
> > remote
> >
> >> drives on fibre? Bearing in mind we have fibre connection to unity
> >>
> > already.
> >
> >> Can we have dual port fibre card for this? We want to do uncompressed HD
>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> N
> >>
> >>
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