From: Jeff Yana <240vac@(email surpressed)> Subject: SledgeHammer HDIO System For Sale Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:56:02 -0400 |
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Dear List-For sale is a SledgeHammer HDIO System with HD playback capabilities and 4TB of high performance Fibre Channel SCSI storage. For additional information please email or call me at 213/446-6205. Thank you. Jeff Yana |
From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: SledgeHammer HDIO System For Sale Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:33:18 -0400 |
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Jeff Yana wrote: Dear List-For sale is a SledgeHammer HDIO System with HD playback capabilities and 4TB of high performance Fibre Channel SCSI storage. Yes, those Sledgehammers are supposedly decent and cost effective file servers for high load environments. I believe Jeff has done some extensive tests with these boxes and found them to be fairly stable under load. (YMMV) I forget how large a network he used to test with, you can get details from him. |
From: Jeff Yana <240vac@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: SledgeHammer HDIO System For Sale Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:20:13 -0400 |
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Thanks for the helpful comments, Greg.:-)Yes, they are extremely robust, cost-effective solutions. Note that this particular model comes with the IO option, which means it can be used for capture (as a DDR) and/or playback in either Standard and High Definition. Just hook it up to one of your favorite VTRs via the SDI interface and away you go. This is in addition to it's primary role as a NAS appliance (over NFS or SMB). This system previously supported a farm of 45 dual proc nodes (under Samba) quite easily. Another client of mine (City of LA) has one of the latest generation SledgeHammer NAS products with 8TB of storage and even with 72 render nodes pounding on it 24/7, it has yet to complain. The load barely registers under CPU utilization graphs. Of course, YMMV depending on your application. To maximize performance, I suggest using NFS mounts if you can, and move over to Jumbo frames if your network can support it. Jumbo frames are a particular advantage when you are doing 2D intensive renders where you are moving a lot of data across the network. This can seriously degrade the performance of any server, regardless of brand or cost... RANDOM Read/Write Aggregate throughput approaches something like 300MB per second on this unit, IIRC, while sequential reads are over 500MB per sec. It is a fairly easy to maintain system with a GUI administrative console. If you are comfortable with Redhat (the SledgeHammer OS is based on a lightweight distro of Redhat vers 7), you can drop into a remote terminal for CLI administration at any time. If you are interested in seeing a demonstration of this unit, please contact me for an appt. Thanks. Jeff Yana Greg Ercolano wrote: Jeff Yana wrote:Dear List-For sale is a SledgeHammer HDIO System with HD playback capabilities and 4TB of high performance Fibre Channel SCSI storage. |
From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: SledgeHammer HDIO System For Sale Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:31:57 -0400 |
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Jeff Yana wrote: Thanks for the helpful comments, Greg.:-)Yes, they are extremely robust, cost-effective solutions. Note that this particular model comes with the IO option, which means it can be used for capture (as a DDR) and/or playback in either Standard and High Definition. [..] Cool, Jeff, thanks for all the techno details, which is I think what all the sysadmins watching this space want to see. -- Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed) Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/ Tel: (Tel# suppressed) Cel: (Tel# suppressed) Fax: (Tel# suppressed)(new) |