MacMini as MDC?

TuberMagPico · Knows DNS is the answer Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 30

Mark, Lucas,

I Promise you there will be a dual MacMini MDC on the IBC floor!

brianwells · Xsan Master Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 80

brianwells · Xsan Master Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 80

The Promise SANLink adapter has appeared in the Apple Store for $799:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H7293LL/A

Another interesting possibility for a Mac mini MDC is a rack mount kit from Sonnet that will allow use of the PCIe Fibre Channel cards (when it ships):

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacminixserver.html

Some many options are becoming available.

lucasnap · Xsan Master Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 107

I've seen the mini MDC on the IBC at Promise, pretty sweet setup for a PoorManSan.

Latency (only thing I could test in the brief time I was there) was good enough (around 350ms). I've seen faster, but for an mini pretty cool.

The sonnet RackMac is even nicer: FC card in the PCI slot and the extra NIC is of course very handy.

gorias · Could work for Apple Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Posts: 40

Hi aaron how did you get on with your lion setup?