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JonM replied on February 26, 2008 10:24 to the question "Can I use the Promise RAID array in a MatrixStore cluster?" in Object Matrix:
Interesting to compare the two RAID arrays to each other, promise has:
- 16 instead of 14 disks (and therefore capacity)
- true duality in the disk controller = failover
- 4Gbps fibre channel
Those are all easy to pinpoint. Long term durability of the product in typical Apple work environments... that's another thing, but for sure, Apple wont have chosen to work with this product without having first considered a lot of other products. It would be bad for Apple's name and it's reputation in the video production industry if this product didn't perform well.
Only time will tell; but I'd love to know exactly which products were in the beauty parade that Apple were considering from.-
JonM marked one of FAQ's replies in Object Matrix as useful. FAQ replied to the question "Can I use the Promise RAID array in a MatrixStore cluster?".
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JonM replied on January 09, 2008 17:45 to the question "Does MatrixStore run on the new quad core Intel Xeon Xserves?" in Object Matrix:
Interestingly, the new Xserves come with optional raid controller hardware devices - these can be battery backed-up, making for a potentially reliable and fast storage device for up to 3TB. Xserve 8 core...wow! Once again Apple are putting Xserves at the forefront.
Some bumph about the hardware RAID option:
"Coupled with two or more hard drives, the Xserve RAID Card offers improved performance and data protection to your Xserve system - up to 318MB/s in RAID 0 and 198MB/s in RAID 5 of sequential read performance. This hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and Enhanced JBOD and has 256MB of cache. And it features an integrated 72-hour battery backup for protecting the RAID cache. The card replaces the built-in SATA/SAS controller and does not use a PCI Express slot.
Raid 5 requires 3 disk drives.
Protection and performance; can survive a single disk failure; efficient capacity utilization
The Xserve RAID Card supports the creation of multiple RAID sets in a system and multiple volumes per RAID set. For optimal disk utilization in a RAID set, all hard drives should be the same size and must be the same type (SATA or SAS). Your Xserve system ships with each hard drive individually configured as an Enhanced JBOD drive with the bootable operating system installed on the first drive. Using Apple's RAID Utility software, you can migrate the boot drive into a RAID set without reinstalling or reformatting the drive, or you can customize your RAID volumes to your exact requirements." -
drewmcmanus replied on July 02, 2007 03:02 to the problem "Regular blue screen of death... where do I start to fix that?" in Parallels:
Hmm. I run Quickbooks on Parallels all the time without problem. I am using Parallels 3.0 (it also worked on 2.0), Win XP with all the latest patches, and Quickbooks Pro 2007.
Are you using a similar setup? Maybe we can triangulate on the problem... -
Amy Muller, an employee of Get Satisfaction, replied on June 29, 2007 21:02 to the idea "100's of questions/ideas are difficult to drill down into: use tags?":
Yeah, as Scott said it's on the short list. Great idea, though. Keep 'em coming! -
Amy Muller replied on June 29, 2007 20:21 to the problem "Regular blue screen of death... where do I start to fix that?" in Parallels:
Which version of Windows and which version of Quickbooks are you running? -
Scott, an employee of Get Satisfaction, replied on June 29, 2007 19:27 to the idea "100's of questions/ideas are difficult to drill down into: use tags?":
Yeah, it's there in the designs, just not in the implementation.
Stay tuned! -
Cameron Walters, an employee of Get Satisfaction, replied on June 29, 2007 17:50 to the idea "Being able to turn a '1 time user' into a full user...":
Absolutely! We're working on that upgrade path in the next few days (I realize the timing isn't perfect, but hey, this isn't even beta, it's alpha). -
Cameron Walters started following the idea "Being able to turn a '1 time user' into a full user..." in Get Satisfaction.
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JonM shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on June 29, 2007 17:48:
Being able to turn a '1 time user' into a full user...would be very nice! -
Scott started following the idea "100's of questions/ideas are difficult to drill down into: use tags?" in Get Satisfaction.
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JonM shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on June 29, 2007 17:47:
100's of questions/ideas are difficult to drill down into: use tags?Perhaps a 3rd tab page in search (recently active, latest topics, TAGS) that list some popular tags to search on?
I'm sure you must be planning something like that! Also, it'd be great if the company could define some popular tags/searches, e.g., for a product name -
JonM replied on June 29, 2007 16:52 to the problem "Regular blue screen of death... where do I start to fix that?" in Parallels:
It was running fine in P - e.g., explorer was working, but then within QB it would BSOD... -
Cameron Walters replied on June 29, 2007 16:32 to the problem "Regular blue screen of death... where do I start to fix that?" in Parallels:
So you can run Windows just fine until you try Quickbooks? Or does Windows give you the BSOD at other times too? -
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