New Mac Pro with RAID 5 crashes using FCP…Help???

[Ernie Santella]

Are you running the 4 internal drives as one raid? Or three drives as a raid and the last drive as the OS drive?

Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Brian Reid]

Ernie,

Thanks for responding so promptly. We are using three drives for the raid and one for the OS. The mouse freezes or when it does work it is in hiper drive. We are testing it now and it is not exclusive to FCP but FCP really activates the crash faster

Brian

[David Roth weiss]

It’s most likely the Apple Raid Card, which I think is nothing but a rebranded and overpriced card from Areca — rumor has it that it has been problematic for many.

Loose the card and setup your internal drives as RAID 0 — or call CalDigit and see if they have a card that will run RAID 5 internally.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Alan Okey]

Capturing video to the same volume as the OS is not a good idea, even if the OS is on a RAID.

Recommendations:

1. Get rid of the Apple RAID card and replace it with a CalDigit RAID card.

2. Use the bracket and cable included with the CalDigit RAID card to add a fifth internal hard drive to the Mac Pro – the fifth drive mounts in the second optical drive bay.

3. Set up a 4-drive hardware RAID-5 volume using the four original hard drives and the CalDigit RAID card. Use the RAID-5 only for video storage.

4. Set up the fifth drive as the system boot drive (OS and Applications).

The Apple RAID card is a joke. Overpriced and underperforming compared with the competition.

https://www.barefeats.com/hard105.html

[Brian Reid]

Dave,

Thanks for the feedback. I am bringing the system back to the apple store right now to have them remove the Raid card. Your response echoes what we have hear before. I will call Caldigit and ask them about an internal raid 5 config. What is you opinion of 0 vs five if we can do both

Brian

[Richard Sanchez]

“Loose the card and setup your internal drives as RAID 0 — or call CalDigit and see if they have a card that will run RAID 5 internally. ”

The Cal Digit Raid Card will run RAID 5 internally. It’s a bit tricky to install (in fact, I couldn’t get my IPass cable to reach) but that is one of their big selling points. Likewise, it will allow you to add up to three HD Element Arrays. Now that’s sexy time!

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

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[Brian Reid]

Richard,

I am currently having the Apple raid taken out and purchasing a Caldigit raid card that can be config’d for raid 5 . I’m installing another 500 gb hard drives to store the Os and applications on and using the raid for the other 4 500 gb hard drives

They did mention to have someone do it for us because of the wire length.

You mentioned: “Likewise, it will allow you to add up to three HD Element Arrays. Now that’s sexy time!” What does that mean?

Thanks

Brian

[Walter Biscardi]

[Brian Reid] ” What is you opinion of 0 vs five if we can do both “

0 yields faster speeds, but zero protection. Any drive fails in the array, you lose everything on the RAID.

5 is generally slower, but gives you a great deal of protection. If any drive in the array fails, you lose nothing.

Our MaxxDigital EVO HD arrays run up to 500MB/s + even in RAID 5. Given the choice, 5 is the way to go.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[David Roth weiss]

[Brian Reid] “What is you opinion of 0 vs five if we can do both”

Like Walter says…

Plus, I’ll add that RAID 5 does eat up a percentage of your disk space (not sure how much in a 3-drive configuration), but it offers a nice level of protection.

Discuss this with the CalDigit folks, they’ll give you excellent advice.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Jon Schilling]

Alan & David,

Thanks for your help with this. Brian gave me a call & he’ll be all set.

Jon Schilling | Director of Business Development
CalDigit Inc
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