Im seriously considering buying a 2nd Flame but I want them to use the same framestore. A 5 banger 10Gig switch is only $350 these days, so I could access it over the network…but, what about using a Thunderbolt Bridge? I’ve set this up using Sharing before, but never for a framestore. Theoretically it should be fast and slick, right?
Anybody else ever tried this nonsense?
Aight, I just turned on the JFP signal. We’ll see if he bites.
Asking for a friend, but why would one person need two flames?
To be able to run 2 flames at once. 
Seriously. I’m looking at ways to tag team projects, and want all the data in 1 place, with a Flame friend controlling a Flame via Teragucci.
I love Xsan, and I believe it’s still supported. Keep in mind that the storage has to be really fast to keep up with two users.
Last summer I priced out a Fiber Channel array that accepted 24 SSD’s. Would have been sweet, but the big project didn’t materialize.
Without a switch you could have a single user with 12Gigabyte/second connection, and two users with 6Gigabyte/sec connections.
Or splitting 10Gbps x4 NVME RAID0 sticks would work…
Engineer here! Yes, this will in theory work. As long as two machines can communicate over any means you can share a framestore.
Most people go with 10Gb because of price and scalability.
You could just do direct connect between 2 network ports of any type, 10gig,25gig, etc. No need for switch.