Hi, Anyone had and experience (or just ideas) how to use Linux server in video studio for sharing RAID between 3 - 4 Power Mac workstations, taking into account enormous traffic generated by video capture and editing? One solution is to use Apple XRaid, XSan, and 2 XServe (1 pc will work, but 2 pcs are better, one is used for routing traffic, second for data transfer). Unfortunately, this is OUT of budget (Fibre Channel SAN system is not a solution for a project with strict budget). My idea is to use 3Ware Escalade Card (with 8x500 GB HDs formatted as 4 Level-0 RAIDs), installed into Linux box, and 4-port Gigabit Ethernet Card. The question is how to organize traffic routing between this Linux box and 4 PowerMacs (all of them have Gigabit Ethernet on-board), so each Mac could see every RAID, yet passing exclusively all traffic through defined Ethernet port on server (in order to avoid Ethernet link saturation and video frame dropout)? Additionally, all Macs should see each other. Phew, complex and unusual, but that is a challenge :-)) Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s). ************************************************ *** with best regards *** Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) *** Mac, Linux, DTP, Programming Web Site *** *** http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac/ ************************************************