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additional drives to SATA Raid
I have a Mac Gurus Burly box with 4 SATA drives and a Sonet Tempo 4X4 card. Can I ad 3-4 additional drives (internally with G5 jam) to the raid without formating? Or am I stuck moving the footage off the drives, adding the new drives and reformating the whole raid again?
Any input to this would be appreciated, as I have to make a decision by monday to build this for a long form project.
Andy
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3 Replies
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You could build a seperate raid with the new drives and leave the current one as it is. Otherwise you’ll have to move your footage off the current raid before building a new one with all the drives.
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modern high-end RAID controllers have a feature called online capacity expansion (OCE) …. that sounds like what you’d like to do. unfortunately, the Sonnet card isn’t a RAID controller, just an SATA host bus adapter (HBA) and so doesn’t have this feature.
I think Guy’s suggestion is your best bet, unless you want/need for your media drive to appear as a single volume. If thats the case then you’ll have to backup, rebuild and restore.
Hope it helps
Andy Mees
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Thank you both for your input. I’ve decided to back up my material to an external drive(s) and then add drives to the raid and reformat. Figure I am taking two steps here, but I also get back up my material for archiving.
Andy
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