Uncompressed Hi Def Video?

Hi guys,
We are intending to capture uncompressed Hi Def Video via SDI into a Quad PowerPC G5(woodcrest), with 8 gigs of RAM. We have the a 1.5 year old Xserve RAID, 2.73Tb, and were looking to capture with the Blackmagic HD Extreme Card.
Do you guys foresee any problems/dropped frames/crashes/etc?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Joe

Make certain you do EVERYTHING what Apple recommends:
Qlogic Fibre Channel Switch
Any Gigabit switch just for the metadata network
Apple Fibre Channel cards - dual fibre channel attached
Latest and greatest firmware on all Apple Xserver RAID's
Latest Xsan client
Latest supported OS
RAID 5 (this is recommended by Apple as the algorithm has been optimized for it on the Xserve RAID's)
You will need a minimum of 2 Xserve RAID's (2 for the Data LUN and 1 for the Metadata LUN). Remember each side of the Xserve RAID or each RAID Controller can comfortably support 80MB/s (2 LUN's using all drives or all drives minus one hot spare x 80MB/s = 160MB/s). Uncompressed 720p HD is 110MB/s. You also have to turn off some settings on the Xserve RAID's to not effect the Xsan. You have to turn caching on one of the settings and disable the notifications of when a hard drive goes online or offline. Read the manual, it'll help a lot.

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