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HighPoint rDrive Experiences
Hi, does anyone have any experience with the HighPoint rDrive (6628) series? They seem to be a nicely priced 8-bay integrated RAID option, but I can’t seem to find any reviews. I’m currently using an 8-bay mini-SAS system, so I’d also be interested in any performance difference between that and going to Thunderbolt 3.
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this is a thunderbolt 3 product.
Yes, it’s a great low price, and Highpoint gear has gotten much better over the years.
IF you have a miniSAS product now – either you are running in an old Mac Pro (which there are no thunderbolt 3 cards available for it) – or you have a new Mac with thunderbolt – and I don’t get how you are using a miniSAS RAID array, unless you have a Sonnet Echo Express expansion box with your miniSAS card in it.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Hi Bob,
I am running an older Mac Pro, so I have the Areca 1882x inside currently running my raid. But right now I’m looking for future options for next year, when I plan to upgrade my computer, so I’d have thunderbolt 3 at that point. I wanted to keep my current RAID chassis, but it only supports 4TB drives, so I am limited to 32TB, and I am looking to go up to 80TB, which is what led me to the HighPoint.
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the highpoint will work for you !
The only way to get your Areca ARC-1882 to work with a new computer is to buy a PCIe expansion chassis, like the Sonnet Echo Express.Of course, Areca makes empty thunderbolt 3 chassis, with the same formatting, so you could pull the drives out of your current Areca, put in them in an Areca ARC-8050T3, and go back to work.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Thanks for the info Bob. I may upgrade before getting a new computer, and in that case I’d probably just copy over the old raid to a new one, and then maybe keep the old one as a backup drive. Then I’d get the PCI expansion chassis.
Thanks for pointing me to the Areca box, do you have experience with it?
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Ok that wasn’t the last question… Based on your second post, and my research – there would be no way to use that Areca box with my current Mac Pro (2008 3,1)?
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you get 1100 MB/sec with RAID 5 using this RAID array. Your limitation is the SATA drives, not the thunderbolt 3 connection. Add more drives, get faster bandwidth.
With that said, you can still do 8K editing.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com -
Ok that wasn’t the last question… Based on your second post, and my research – there would be no way to use that Areca box with my current Mac Pro (2008 3,1)?
YES – that is correct. There is NO WAY to use thunderbolt products with ANY Mac Pro tower –
3,1 4,1 or 5,1
Let me be clear. If you have a 2012 Mac Pro loaded out, there is NO WAY to plug in a thunderbolt product to this computer.And there never will be a way.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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