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Is my Quad getting old?
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[walter biscardi] “Get yourself a FW800 RAID at the very least. Two drives striped together will work better than a single drive. A single drive for video editing is never a good solution.”
I just looked at 2 x 1TB LaCie Disks (FW800). Thing is, my Quad has only one FW800 port. Can I hook up the two LaCies to eachother without a problem or do they both need a separate controller ie FW card?
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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[Imagine Video] “I just looked at 2 x 1TB LaCie Disks (FW800). Thing is, my Quad has only one FW800 port. Can I hook up the two LaCies to eachother without a problem or do they both need a separate controller ie FW card?”
Yes you can, but that’s not what I mean by striping two drives together. You pick up ONE unit that has multiple drives inside already set for a RAID. Like this one.
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If I were you, I’d stay away from FW800 and stripe two SATA drives together. Get yourself a Sonnet PCI card and a port multiplied enclosure with two drives. When you are ready to expand, buy more drives, put them in the enclosure, back up your media, restripe and then you have more capacity.
Jeremy
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[JeremyG] “If I were you, I’d stay away from FW800 and stripe two SATA drives together. Get yourself a Sonnet PCI card and a port multiplied enclosure with two drives. When you are ready to expand, buy more drives, put them in the enclosure, back up your media, restripe and then you have more capacity.
Jeremy”
I was just looking at the G-tech FW800 option- 2 drives striped together in an enclosure because the LaCie’s get such bad reviews… now you’re telling me I should stay away from them… 🙁
Can you give me a couple of options for the ‘port multiplied enclosure’ that work well with the Sonnet S-Ata card? Sorry to ask but here in the Netherlands we don’t have as many goodies as you do in the States… (and what do you think about the CalDigit system I mentioned in an earlier post?)
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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Sorry that might be a bit confusing. They are good drives, I’d just stay away from the limiting bandwidth of FW800 and switch to SATA. I wasn’t telling you to stay away from GRaid as a company.
I have not used Caldigit, but they get good press.
Sonnet has port-multiplied enclosures. I believe Firmtek does too, but I am not sure. They are everywhere and Google will set you free.
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I just talked to a guy from a pro photo/video shop I’ve done business with before and asked him about options for RAID systems.
He mentioned a LaCie RAID system called LaCie Biggest Quadra that consists of an array of 4 disks- RAID 0, 0+1,5 and 5+something(?). Incredibly enough it has FW400, 800 AND ESata connections!
2 TB for around 1K- that is very, very attractive. Will have to get the PCI-card but that’s 100,- at the most.I know LaCie is not the professional’s Best Friend -at least not for the last few years- but this system comes with a 3 year warranty and coming from a Maxtor 300 gig harddrive, this seems like a perfect first step into the world of RAID.
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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