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Check out my new review – Stardom PD2510 – a RAID 1 mirrored backup for Mac Pro in a single slot
I think you guys and gals are going to like this… It certainly allows me to sleep better at night.
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Stardom-Pro-Review/1
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Hey Dave.
As long as you are using the same size 2.5″ and model number drives you’re good to go. (Looks like David responded to you at about the same time I did). 😉 I think David more accurately addressed your question as well.
Jonathan Schilling | Sales & Marketing Manager
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON since 2000
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 626-333-7888
jon@raidon-usa.com
http://www.stardom-usa.comJon Schilling COW LEADER – Stardom Storage Forum
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[Dave LaRonde] “you once wrote you had a stack of standby system drives ready to go if the current one goes south. Will this gizmo reduce the stack?”
Not necessarily Dave. This setup is pretty much created in case of catastrophic failure. Because the mirrored backup is instantaneous, as soon as I perform an update to the primary, the secondary is also immediately updated as well.
The clones I create manually allow me go back in time – should I perform an update of my system drive that doesn’t work as expected, the clone reflects the system drive in its state prior to the update.
Get the difference?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Let me know if you have any other questions Dave. I’m here!
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Sorry to immediately go in to disaster mode, but what happens when a drive fails?
One of my “favorite” things to do is pull a hard drive in a redundant raid and see what happens, but that would be hard in this case.
Since there seems to be no visible software controlling the raid, what warning do you get?
Is it just the normal ‘degraded’ warning that you check manually in Disk Util?
Also, the disk Util screen shot has an unformatted partition scheme. What happens there? Did you have to format as well?
SSD?
Thanks, this looks pretty sweet. This would allow a pretty easy system backup solution without taking up another slot which are full of differing boot scenarios with today’s transition craziness.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Sorry to immediately go in to disaster mode, but what happens when a drive fails?”
You pull the bad drive, install a good one in it’s place, and reboot the computer. Pretty easy, huh?
[Jeremy Garchow] “One of my “favorite” things to do is pull a hard drive in a redundant raid and see what happens, but that would be hard in this case.”
Yep. Very difficult if not impossible.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Since there seems to be no visible software controlling the raid, what warning do you get?”
Beeping audio and a flashing LED. If you look at the image of the front of the PD2510 there is a little square window with two LEDs, labeled 1& 2. The one blinking red is not the good one. Under normal conditions the LEDs are a cool blue, except when the primary is being written to the secondary, which shows as very fast flashing (almost pink) as it writes.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, the disk Util screen shot has an unformatted partition scheme. What happens there? Did you have to format as well?”
That was another drive you were seeing (or so I believe) that I was testing for my multi-boot partition tutorial. But I’ll check… I have since tested the Stardom PD2510 with multiple bootable partitions, and it works just great. And yes, I did have to format those partitions on the primary, but they copied to the secondary automatically.
[Jeremy Garchow] “SSD?”
Not in the PD2510 I tested. That may be coming however. Perhaps Jon Schilling will chime in on that?
[Jeremy Garchow] “Thanks, this looks pretty sweet. This would allow a pretty easy system backup solution without taking up another slot which are full of differing boot scenarios with today’s transition craziness.”
You’re quite welcome Jeremy. And yes, the reason I was keen on this was precisely for the reasons you mention. It occurred to me the minute I saw it that it would fit in with my multi-boot/multi-partition scheme for FCP X, Lion, etc.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Beeping audio and a flashing LED. If you look at the image of the front of the PD2510 there is a little square window with two LEDs, labeled 1& 2.”
So nothing shows up on screen? Our machines are in a noisy closet.
If you are feeling daring, pull one of those drives you have and reboot the computer. What do you see?
Pretend the computer wasn’t in the room with you.
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Jeremy,
We’ve tested with SSDs and the results are mixed, some brands work, others don’t and the ones that work, the speeds aren’t nearly as good as with 2.5″ hard drives. That being said, SSD’s aren’t recommended in this particular product.
Jonathan Schilling | Sales & Marketing Manager
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON since 2000
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 626-333-7888
jon@raidon-usa.com
http://www.stardom-usa.comJon Schilling COW LEADER – Stardom Storage Forum
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[Jon Schilling] “That being said, SSD’s aren’t recommended in this particular product.”
No worries. Thanks, Jon!
Jeremy
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