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Thunderbolt networking is cool, but only between 2 computers. You can daisy chain many drives and monitors, but not many computers... it starts to be an addressing nightmare so it limits what is available.
Wired ethernet is still the way to go here, and I'm not sure what the networking cards are on the iMacs, if gigabit then just make sure your cables are Cat6 and your switch is gigabit and you should be good.
Another way to go would be to mix the above... Thunderbolt to the first computer, ethernet from that computer to the next.
You're not going to be limited on gigabit ethernet, the limitations here are on the performance characteristics of the RAID, and the drives that are in the iMacs. However WiFi and 100Mbps ethernet is likely below the performance of a RAID10 setup and SSDs in the iMacs, hence gigabit ethernet or Thunderbolt is preferred.
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Velocio
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I have a 64TB G-tech g studio ev tower setup in RAID 10.
I have 2 iMacs I'd like to be able to read the data held on it (video rushes) at high enough speed so as not to slow down editing. They also need to write to it.
The RAID has 2 thunderbolt slots. So do the iMacs as well as an ethernet cable and we have very fast WiFi.
We don't have a dedicated server and I'd rather not go down that route without exhausting other options.
Any thoughts on the best way to link them up?
At the moment I'm trying to set up the RAID via thunderbolt to one of the iMacs, then somehow share it as a folder for access to the other (just plugging thunderbolt cables into both machines from the same RAID tower only connects to the one that was plugged in first) - though without much success.
Can I create some kind of partition on the RAID and install some NAS software on it? Can I do that without formatting the RAID and losing everything on it?
Sincerely,
Not a Network Expert
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