iMac RAID solution?

[Jon Schilling]

A JBOD 2 bay Firewire 800 storage device is another option.
Back up your data manually, no decrease in speed as with a RAID 1 device.

Jon Schilling

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Jon Schilling] “A JBOD 2 bay Firewire 800 storage device is another option.
Back up your data manually, no decrease in speed as with a RAID 1 device.”

I like that idea. Is there a Stardom 2- or 4-bay model that allows for RAID1,0 and JBOD?

[Jon Schilling]

Alex,

The ST2 offers RAID 0 or JBOD but not RAID 1, still decent & priced right too: https://stardom-usa.com/product_list.php?sno=0000184 we’re still working on the page content, but it’s configured through a switch in the back.

Jon

[Joel Thiessen]

Okay so I’ve done some browsing and have come up with what I thought would be some potential units. If any one product stands out as a good idea or a really bad idea please let me know. I hope I’m on the right track with these!

2TB G-RAID ($269.99)
– Decent size
– Fast
– Reliable

2TB iStoragePro Dock II ($335.00)
– Affordable
– Able to switch between RAID 1 or RAID 0 (can it do JBOD?)

2TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro
– Very affordable
– I’ve heard good things about OWC products

2TB Caldigit AV Drive ($358.00)
– Apparently very fast
– Caldigit seems to be very reliable

Stardom ST2 ($?)
– I can’t seem to find a lot of information about this product, but Jon Schilling seems to like them!
– Input on this would be appreciated

[Jon Schilling]

https://www.welovemacs.com/st2wabc.html
Price and description there.

[Joel Thiessen]

Okay so what would you all suggest. I am stumped as to what would work best for me!

I need a FW800 enclosure I can edit HD footage off of and implement an archiving process from.

I’ve been looking at these drives:
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay
or
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro

And thinking I would use these to work from and then purchase additional drives (simple usb drives or possibly naked drives w/a dock?) to back-up and archive. Once it’s safely archived, erase that content from my working drives?

Also would there be a benefit to do a 2-bay enclosure with 1TBx2 vs a 1 bay enclosure with 2TB.

Thank you all!!

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Joel Thiessen] “Also would there be a benefit to do a 2-bay enclosure with 1TBx2 vs a 1 bay enclosure with 2TB.”

There is a performance benefit in RAID0 (insignificant with FW800 I/O) and redundancy benefit in RAID1. I think we went over this already.

[Joel Thiessen] “I’ve been looking at these drives:
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual Bay
or
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro”

What are your own thoughts?

[Joel Thiessen] “And thinking I would use these to work from and then purchase additional drives (simple usb drives or possibly naked drives w/a dock?) to back-up and archive. Once it’s safely archived, erase that content from my working drives?”

It’s a feasible workflow – you may want to archive critical files to at least two different drives.

Alex (DV411)