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Particularly interesting is its External MiniSAS Cable BREAKOUT CABLE 1M  hub. SAS is the enterprise equivalent of SATA and a single mini-SAS connection gives you speeds of up to 24Gbps; that’s fast data sharing that’s not much more complex than direct-attached drives – you don’t need the infrastructure of a storage area network or the high cost of fibre channel to get large amounts of fast, shared storage. CEO Larry O’Connor estimates that mini-SAS is a quarter of the price of fibre channel and three times faster (24 rather than 8Gbps) and it’s flexible too.Previously, each of our edit suites had external Raid 5 arrays.  We use 12TB Rack Pro raids from Other World Computer.  Because these are External MiniSAS Cable, they stayed with the MacPro.  We were able to turn them instantly into SAN volumes using SANmp.  Right now each edit suite has it's own SAN raid, but we're working on finializing our SAN workflow.Our goal is to add another 12-24TB by summer, giving us a SAN with a total of 48TB.

The External MiniSAS Cable connector can plug in to a mini-SAS PCI Express card in a Mac Pro or PC server, or you can attach it via the 9-port hub to share the storage between 8 workstations or connect multiple Jupiter systems with an LSI switch.Click for larger image Connect 8 workstations through a 9-port hub and each of them gets 24Gbps bandwidth; connect two channels with two cables and you can get 48Gbps. The management software lets you zone specific drives to specific servers or workstations, or pool the storage for general use.