• Media 100

  scsi drive failure

  Posted by Greg Ball on June 18, 2005 at 12:53 am

  One of my drives no longer shows up on my desktop. I think it’s failed. I was talking to a guy today who knows Macs, and ghe suggested that I switch over to Firewire drives. He gave me info on this site

  https://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/RAID.shtml

  Has anyone switched over to these type of drives. Are they compatible with M100i 8.2.1 on a Mac G4 1.42 GHZ set up?

  I edit primarily beta sp shows. Thanks.

  Dean Sensui replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Lawrence Marshall

  June 18, 2005 at 3:14 pm

  I have been editing M100 on single (i.e. – not Raided) 120-gig Firewire drives using just the Firewire port on a G4 for several years. My drives have 8mb cache, and they easily sustain 225-250kb throughput. Using 8.2.1 caused no problems with this workflow.
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  Dean Sensui

  June 19, 2005 at 8:28 am

  I would recommend SATA drives.

  External RAID enclosures from Sonnet and Firmtek that allow hot-swapping drives provide an economical option in the long run.

  I’m using the Firmtek 2-drive card and enclosure and they’re working nicely. Sonnnet’s solution was just announced and their enclosure has 4 bays instead of Firmtek’s 2, and it also has an internal power supply instead of an external one. Slightly cleaner installation… no brick.

  Hitachi 250-gig drives are about $140 each plus another $20 for a “sled”. At about $160 for 250 gigabytes of fast storage, it’s not a bad deal.

  Dean Sensui
  http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com

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