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Caldigit or Not – Walter, Bob et. al
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So Shane and Walter,
You agree that the S2VR 5 drive unit is pretty solid as a standalone, but not the newer CalDigit products labeled as “HD?” If a 5-drive S2VR is likely to have issues, I need to start looking for something else pronto.
Thanks for any additional info you can provide.
Joe Murray
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We agree that the S2VR Duo…the 2 drive units…are solid when you have them as separate RAIDS. The 5 drive S2VR HD is what Walter had issues with, so until I hear about a good experience with one of those, I’d hold off. But they have an 8 bay unit that is HD 444, that Bob Zelin reviewed and raved about. And they have a new HD Pro which is an 8 bay Raid 5, Raid 6 solution…which is due out next month.
What are you looking to edit?
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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At this point I need to be able to edit up to 8 bit HDCam uncompressed, and I already have the S2VR 5 Drive unit, which has worked so far at least for capturing some of this footage. I have had a few strange issues with it not appearing on restarts, and then if I shut down, turn off the S2VR and then start up the Mac, it shows up again. This thread has raised a red flag though, and if there’s some issue with these units I really need to know. Would you avoid this for a primary drive system in a high-end FCP suite?
Joe Murray
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[Joe Murray] “You agree that the S2VR 5 drive unit is pretty solid as a standalone,”
No. The 2 drive Duo is a solid product. The 5 bay S2VR HD is not.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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[Joe Murray] “I have had a few strange issues with it not appearing on restarts, and then if I shut down, turn off the S2VR and then start up the Mac, it shows up again.”
Yes, this is an issue. It has an issue with restarting the machine…it won’t show up. Thus far this only affects the 5 bay unit. The solution is to power it down, restart, then fire it up.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Walter and Shane, have you guys tried Caldigit FireWire RAID?
the FireWire VR? -
[Joe Murray] “I have had a few strange issues with it not appearing on restarts, and then if I shut down, turn off the S2VR and then start up the Mac, it shows up again. This thread has raised a red flag though, and if there’s some issue with these units I really need to know. Would you avoid this for a primary drive system in a high-end FCP suite?”
That is a very bad sign if the drive is not mounting on start up. That’s what happened here. A few times it would not mount, shut down, restart and all is fine. Then suddenly it just did not mount at all.
I would not recommend this as a primary drive for any FCP suite unless you have a completely cloned backup device, like our 2TB LaCie Firewire 800 RAID unit. When the S2VR’s went down, we immediately switched over to that unit and got our projects out with no issues. We continue to use these units to backup our S2S units.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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I’ve got a 2TB Promax RAID I can use for backup temporarily. How did you resolve the situation with CalDigit? Did they take the drives back and refund your money or what?
Joe Murray
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[Joe Murray] ”
I’ve got a 2TB Promax RAID I can use for backup temporarily. How did you resolve the situation with CalDigit? Did they take the drives back and refund your money or what?”Yes, though I’m still waiting for the refund to arrive.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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Spoke with Leslie in CalDigit support just now and he said they are testing a new board in the 5 drive chassis that should take care of the problem. Some consolation anyway.
In the failure your unit had, was the data recoverable? Or did you even bother with that since you had your backup files?
Joe Murray
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