Internal Raid in a Mac Pro: Too hot??

[Bret Williams]

Just click on “more widgets” in the manage widgets panel. That takes you to apples widgets page. Just do a quick search for it. I think they have a pro version that gives quite a bit more detail as well. iStat pro or istat nano. Adding one drive to my system didn’t change a thing.

[Moody Glasgow]

Would you run Raid5 on internal drives??? I can see the point of running a couple drives in a raid config internally, but for the work we do, we need to run Raid 5. Drives fail. Sometimes it won’t happen to you for years, sometimes twice in one week. When you edit with clients every day, and can’t afford to have downtime, Raid5 is the way to go. Can you hotswap a bad internal drive?

I think it comes down to the type of work you do, and what you need from your raid.

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[David Roth weiss]

[moodyglasgow] “Would you run Raid5 on internal drives???”

You couldn’t if you wanted to with the onboard Apple SATA controller. Its software only, which means support only for RAID-0 and RAID-1 (mirroring).

DRW

[Mark Maness]

[walter biscardi] “At NAB we will be looking at a Fibre Channel solution again, but that’s because I want shared storage for our three suites.”

I just wanted to chime to say that I love our TerraBlock… BUT if I had to do it all again, I would go with another manufacturer.

Why?

Well, The TerraBlock is plenty fast and does great for shared storage. Our workflow is increased ten fold. But, here’s the issue I have with Facilis. The TerraBlock does not resize on the fly, so you’d better get your volume size right. If not, you’ll spend most of a day copying to another large volume if you mistakenly make it too small. This has happened to me a few times.

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Wayne Carey
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Wayne Carey] “I just wanted to chime to say that I love our TerraBlock… BUT if I had to do it all again, I would go with another manufacturer.”

Thanks for the user experience, though I have to say it’s the first somewhat negative comments I’ve heard about them, but I know you’re a straight shooter so it’s great to get the feedback from you.

I’m going to be testing something next week, but can’t talk about it for the time being.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Moody Glasgow]

[David Roth Weiss] “[moodyglasgow] “Would you run Raid5 on internal drives???”

You couldn’t if you wanted to with the onboard Apple SATA controller. Its software only, which means support only for RAID-0 and RAID-1 (mirroring).”

My point exactly.

moody glasgow
smoke artist / editor

[Bob Pierce]

Getting back to the original question: aside from the internal/external question, It seems that no one has had any problems with heat filling the Mac Pro with drives. I think in principal I agree with Walter, that it’s just better in general to stick to external drives, but the cost difference here (and ease) makes it extremely enticing to just throw some drives in there. So many decisions to make with this stuff!

[David Roth weiss]

[BobP] “So many decisions to make with this stuff!”

Bob,

Actually, there are very few decisions when compared to those that must be made when setting up NLEs on the Windows side of things. That’s one thing what makes MACs so darned attractive.

Don’t worry so much about getting things perfect, you can always trade up later. Any hard drives you acquire can be tossed into a SATA array and used later. They won’t go to waste and they’re cheap anyway. Just get tooled-up and start editing, that’s where the tough decisions need to be made.

DRW