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Could any please provide best recommendations for Xserve with Ad Studio comprising Raid 5 3-6 TB storage, 10-20 Macs with 3 power uses wanting to work live on 2-3GB files. The xserve will also be connected to existing windows server for exchange mail. The other users are lite office users so main issue is to provide fast secure access for power users. As this is brand new site the only existing requirements is connectivity to the smbs server for mail as all data will be transferred to new xserve.

• A basic, low-end Xserve with two internal hard drives in a mirrored RAID, and a Fibre-Channel card
• a Promise Vtrak RAID with 6TB storage and room for expansion
Depending on your budget, you may also want to set up a Fibre-Channel network for the power users. This is expensive and maybe optional, depending on your performance needs. Gigabit ethernet might work for the power users' connection to the server, but maybe not. For a fibre channel network you'd need:
• a fibre-channel switch
• Fibre channel cards for each of the power users' workstations
• Xsan2 so more than one server/workstation can connect directly to the storage.
• cabling
And, of course, you'll need a solution for backing up all that data.
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