XRaid Setup for Facility-Questions

We are a small production facility and I'm moving towards shared storage. Here is the system I was thinking of getting, so if anyone wants to give any advice, I'd be happy to accept and very appreciative.
-We currently have 3 rooms: 2 G5's and 1 Intel 3.0 Quad all running Final Cut Pro regularly editing DVCPro HD and SD Uncompressed and DV.
I'm going to lease:
-XRaid fully populated with either 500 or 750gig drives (advice?)
-3 Dual Channel 2Gig Fibre cards
-Qlogic SANbox Express 1403 Fibre Switch
-Cables-Need 2 runs of over 25 feet to rooms
-MetaSAN software
-Placement: Can the XRaid live in our edit suite in our rack? Is it too loud to have in a suite? (We don't have a dedicated machine room.)
-Cable? Fiber optic or copper? Our rooms are all next to each other, but obviously, just to get cable up the wall, over the ceiling, etc, we will definitely be more than the 3 meters limit of copper. Am I correct on this that we have to go optical with these transceiver units??
-Size:750 versus 500's? Anyone have any negative experiences with the 750's? Greater chance of problems with them? Run much hotter? It seems way cost effective to go 750's for only an additional $1400 to get an extra several TB's...
-RAID: Best setup? I've only started researching, but it sounds like I should Raid 0 both sides individually and then stripe them Raid 50 together. How much drive space will I lose doing it this way for safety? Is this correct?
Thanks a lot for any help. This stuff is a little out of my techy comfort zone...
Kevin

Your setup sounds fine. As for specific questions:
>-Placement: Can the XRaid live in our edit suite in our rack? Is it too loud to have in a suite? (We don't have a dedicated machine room.)
To be honest, I'm not certain about the noise since all my RAIDs are surrounded by XServes, CRAC units/air handers, etc., etc. Anecdotal evidence says they're noisy, If it's too noisy for you, something like the XRack Pro might be an idea solution.
>-Cable? Fiber optic or copper? Our rooms are all next to each other, but obviously, just to get cable up the wall, over the ceiling, etc, we will definitely be more than the 3 meters limit of copper. Am I correct on this that we have to go optical with these transceiver units??
Copper cables can run up to 50 meters, so the choice is yours.
I've purchased long copper cables from CS Electronics before and have been very happy with them. They'll even make custom length if you want/need that.
>Size:750 versus 500's?
750's. No question. As you note, the price difference is small compared to what you get.
>-RAID: Best setup? I've only started researching, but it sounds like I should Raid 0 both sides individually and then stripe them Raid 50 together. How much drive space will I lose doing it this way for safety? Is this correct?
Ordinarily I'd say RAID 50, as you hint (although this is a striped (RAID 0) array of RAID 5 volumes, I'm guessing your 'RAID 0' comment was a typo.
However, if you're using a SAN product you should check with the vendors. Presumably the SAN is going to virtualize the storage and therefore it might not matter how the RAID is configured. In most cases I'd recommend RAID 5 on the XServe RAID itself, so it's the RAID 0 element that's most questionable.
You might also need to take performance into account. Ordinarily RAID 50 gives best performance, but only for a single host. If you have multiple hosts contending for disk access you might find that separate volumes, with individual servers weighted towards one array or another gives you a better solution since each machine is unaffected (or, at least, less affected) by what the other is doing.

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My issue began because I could not get my Comcast setup to work for outgoing email. So I was advised to setup for the Edge port settings by an iPhone support person from ATT...this was a huge error. Because I attempted to do this it actually kept the phone from smoothly converting settings as needed. I only discovered this after resolving the actual problem with my WiFi (Comcast Broadband settings) issue which was actually the setup that MUST HAVE a user ID and Password, at least when using a Comcast Broadband account. Unlike the rest of my XP and ME computers on my networks which do not require this info, the iPhone DOES.
Because I could not get outgoing mail to work with my broadband setup I attempted to setup two accounts for each email address...one for Cellular and one for WiFi for when I would figure out my problem...or for just sending email more quickly. This does not work as the conflict causes a nightmare. This is something the iPhone support folks should have explained but failed to do so, perhaps as they didn't know this?
Bottom line: Let the phone do the choosing...it works great and will avoid YOU wasting TWO DAYS and more than 12 hours on the phone with iPhone Support as I did. I eventually figured the port switching issues and solutions on my own through trial and error and luckily one bright iPhone support person advised me that he knew for sure that when using the iPhone with Comcast you must setup "outgoing settings" using an "ID" and "Password" which I was provided by Comcast in only a few minutes. I don't use their emial account but I setup one just for this purpose. Once done, my email accounts began working normally. Once I resolved the conflict issues listed above the phone now works great both WiFi and Cell.
-Rich

fullspool,
Comcast offers an authenticating SMTP server that should work for you on WiFi and EDGE both.
The settings are linked in this Apple knowledge base article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306074
The Comcast link is:
http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=Emailtop18913
From that link the settings are:
Your email address: [email protected]
The email server type (POP)
Incoming mail server: mail.comcast.net
Outgoing mail server: smtp.comcast.net
With SSL on for both incoming and outgoing.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

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Best setup for iMac with SSD and HDD? Best location of scratch & home folders?
Computer:
iMac 2.93 GHz Quad core i7, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD
There is not much info from Apple about the best way to set up an iMac with a Hard Drive and Solid state drive. I’ve looked at a few of the forum posts across the web and came up with a plan and lots of questions. (I do use photoshop frequently, but not on a professional level):
1. I will keep OS and Applications on SSD
2. About moving the home folder: I saw some posts about moving the whole home folder, but it makes more sense to me to only move selected fodlers withing the home folder tomake the best use of the SSD. So will keep the home folder on SSD, but move certain folders (document /music/iphoto/download) to 1 TB HDD via instructions I found on the macintoshperformanceguide website:
cd
sudo cp -r Documents /Volumes/Master
sudo rm -rf Documents
sudo ln -s /Volumes/Master/Documents Documents
3. I would like to get 8 more RAM when I can afford it
4. I will attach an external hard drive for most of my documents and backup storage
5. Now here is where I’m not sure what’s best:
a. Should I partition my internal 1 TB hard drive and use the first partition as a scratch disc for photoshop and other applications? How much should I partition? Is there any benefit to this if the rive is partitioned?
b. Should I use an external drive as a scratch disc?
c. Any advice on a good 1-2 TB external drive?
d. Should I just leave things in factory settings?
Don't assume I know the basics - I got all the above just by searching around. Any advice and commentary is appreciatedThanks.
Message was edited by: sfandtheworld

Thanks for the advice and the links. yes, I would like to speed up ps as much as possible.
I wonder if putting the scratch disc on the same drive as the OS would cause them to interfere with each other? Even if they are on different partitions, they would not be able to be accessed at the same time, or could they? That's why I was wondering if I should place scratch disc on the internal HDD -- but then I don't know how much to partition for it (or to partition at all?)
ALso, I read on a few places that too much read/write on the SSD wears it down over time? Is this more of a theoretical concerns - it does not make sense to me since it has no moving parts!
thanks again for the advice ... I'm gonna go digest those links

Need advice on best setup for Extreme and Express w/ (n only) network

I'd like to get some advice on the best setup for my situation. I've read a number of posts on WDS, Extending a Network, etc. and, unfortunately, I'm now more confused than ever.
We have an Airport Extreme 802.11n using WPA2 Personal, 2.4Ghz (n only connection) which I've found to give us the best range/connection speeds for the following devices (all computers running 10.5.5, Apple TV's using most current update):
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iMac
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The good news we have a large house, the bad news we have a large house. Meaning of course that I don't get the range in parts of the house I'd like to. I also have an older Mini (G4) connected to the AEBS thru ethernet (the Mini acts as the iTunes server for the ATVs).
I just bought a new Airport Express with the desire to place it on the other side of the house to both enhance the range of the wireless network and to provide another wired to wireless connection to the network.
I initially merely chose to "Extend a wireless network" but that seems to have a MAJOR adverse impact on the speeds of the wireless network. dropping the streaming to one of the ATV by like 90%. I would like to maintain the security settings I have as well as the 2.4Ghz (n only) since these provide the best speed/connection range on the AEBS.
My question then is what is the best way to use the AX (WDS? Bridge?).

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