Internal Raid Card

[Alan Okey]

Just to clarify, do you need a RAID card that will create a RAID using the hard drives in the internal drive bays of your Mac Pro?

[Chad Braham]

Yes. Preferably, I’d like a card that would allow me to have an internal raid, and connect to an external eSATA enclosure too (similar to the CalDigit Raid card).

[Craig Russillroy]

I feel your pain we had a 8 core 2008 psu blow today which has a apple raid card – it was an opportune time to buy another box – bought a new 6 core and we will send off the old one to get replaced then put it back into production – thought I could jam in the raid card but no go – managed to jam in 3 x fresh drives raid it via disk utility and we were up and editing – when the othere box comes back I will just jam the raid card back in that – if you have the drives install and stripe

[Jason Brown]

I think it was Zane who suggested that unless I needed a raid other than raid0, that there was no need for an internal raid card…

I’m running an internal 3 drive raid0 set up in Disk utility

[David Roth weiss]

Quit jamming things in… Gently insert them and your computer will last a whole lot longer.

[Phil Balsdon]

Ha Ha David, the cheeky smile in your profile pic says it all.

But jam rhymes with RAM, more of it equals quicker!

(Sense of humour plugin applied).

Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/

[Don Wilson]

Just recently purchased a new 6-Core Westmere and my old HighPoint SAS/Sata raid controler won’t friggin’ work with the new MP designs. Nice right. We had just bought it to replace another HighPoint card that went bad after several years of brutal labor. The new cards to get are the Aceras and the Attos. I went with the Acera as it was available in town. Had to copy material off the existing raid and copy back onto the new one but speeds are nearing 985 MB/s. Using a iStorage 16 bay SAS Expander chassis but also works on an older 8 bay chassis with great speeds too. The Acera’s are the 1680 series and the 1880 series and the Atto is the R380.

Lots of raid experience if you need any questions answered.

Best,
Don Wilson
dwilson@americanamediainc.com

Don Wilson
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AmericanaMediaInc.com
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818.660.2915 studio
818.207.6924 cell
818.760.1828 fax

[S Regian]

Think you mean Areca instead of Acera. My vote is NOT for any HighPoint product. Support is non existent!

[Chad Braham]

Thank you for your help everyone. Sorry for my late response – I was out of the studio for several shoots.

Don: I like the ATTO card you suggested because it has the two ports, that would allow for future expansion. iStorage was one of the enclosures you suggested, but is there another brand you could suggest? In fact, does anybody else have enclosure suggestions that work great with Highpoint or ATTO raid cards? I have to place my order through macsales.com, and they don’t carry the iStorage brand.

Side question, there used to be a salesmen at OWC that people on this forum recommended for FinalCut setups. Is there still a name out there people are using?