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

Ah Ok… I'll take a look at the guide

N

From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Dom Q. Silverio
Sent: 23 November 2009 01:38
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Adding RTR320X chassis's to XW8400 and alternative
storage

Not sure, I think it is the limitation of the built in controller. I
never actually tried. It is just mentioned in the User Guide.

Nigel Gourley wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a reason for only one chassis per channel? I wanted to have 2!
>
> Thanks
>
> N
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> Dom Q. Silverio
> Sent: 22 November 2009 20:01
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto: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 <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Of
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>> Dom Q. Silverio
>> Sent: 22 November 2009 19:16
>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto: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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