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New Mac Pro with RAID 5 crashes using FCP…Help???
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The Raid card has three slots to connect three external HD Element raid towers. So in addition to raiding your internal drives, you can add external storage in the future.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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[Richard Sanchez] “The Raid card has three slots to connect three external HD Element raid towers. So in addition to raiding your internal drives, you can add external storage in the future.”
That’s kind of like the MaxxDigital Expando Chassis system except you can RAID up to 128 drives together and still maintain the 500 to 600MB/s. So if you run 12 drives per chassis, for example, that would be 11 chassis all hanging off a single card.
We’re testing out the Expando Chassis as part of their Final Share setup in our office now. We’re running 16 TB in a 16 drive configuration. So if we need to add more storage as our workflow grows, it’s as simple as plugging in another chassis, just like daisy chaining firewire drives. The configuration we’re running now is topping just over 600MB/s in RAID 5.
Now THAT’s sexy! 🙂
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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“The configuration we’re running now is topping just over 600MB/s in RAID 5.”
Damn Gina!!!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Be aware that the current CalDigit Raid card may not fit in the new MacPro 8 Core, and has problems with access to the internal drive connectors in the MacPro Quad Core. We learned from experience. Check with CalDigit tech support.
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If you can afford it use an external RAID setup the most common reason for drive failure is heat and the drives generate some good heat. It’s best to keep them seperated, Especially if you buy a real expensive MacPro wit ha lot of RAM…already running hot. Do not use any card if you can avoid it unless you keep the machine in a controlled environment.
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I have just acquired a Mac Pro with three internal 1 TB drives (four drives total but one is for the OS/Apps) along with a Mac RAID controller. I have yet to set the RAID up because I’m debating over going with an internal RAID 0 or RAID 5– I’m very aware of the pros/cons of RAID 0 but I’m also wondering about going RAID 5, as this Mac Pro will be a Final Cut station working primarily with footage from our new Panasonic HPX-300. While we might shoot some on AVCIntra-100, more than likely we’ll be shooting DVCProHD in most cases. But I want to be sure RAID 5, with the Mac RAID card, can handle it. I’ve read the many detractors about the Mac RAID card but guess I should have looked into it before I made my purchase– it was purchased with “move-or-you-lose” money so I had little time to do heavy research.
Thanks for any suggestions!
BTW, I did check the CalDigit RAID and on their web site it says “The CalDigit RAID Card does not support use of an internal RAID on (Early2009) Mac Pros, but use of HDElements is fully supported.” Does this mean the CalDigit card would not work with the Mac Pro internal drives if I was to look into it?
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Al,
This is an old thread dating back several months, and while you should be commended for researching the topic, it would probably be much wiser had you started a new thread.
In any case, as you already know the Apple raid card really bites, and on top of that, it is absolutely unnecessary for creating an internal raid inside the MacPro using the internal bays. So, I would suggest that, rather than simply biting the bullet and eating the darned thing, you should do your very best to force the people who pushed you into buying it to allow you to trade it back to them. Whether they give you cash, or hardware, or software, you’re going to be far better off without that hunk of junk. And, if I were you, I’d call CalDigit and have Jon Schilling explain exactly what is and what is not possible with his cards at this time.
P.S – If the Apple raid card has been improved over the last several months I sincerely apologize for calling it a hunk of junk.
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