If you want to know how to optimize your Xsan settings to get the best performance possible, you might have a hard time to find any information on the net.

The combination of block size and stripe breadth as well as the Xsan topology decides how much bandwidth you will get

A couple of days ago the german version of the O’Reilly book “Mac OS X – The Missing Manual, Tiger-Edition” was released.

The german version of the book is based on the Panther edition of the book and was updated by Rudolf Steffens and me. The book was written with

At the MacEXPO 2005 in Cologne we built up a Video & Server Pro Lab to demonstrate a real-world video workflow based on Xsan and Apple’s Final Cut Studio.

Our setup delivered 220/250 MB/s write and read performance. This is how the network looked like:

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