OT – RAID Question

[David Roth weiss]

[Thomas Morter-Laing] “Yes it does, even if theyre the same size, different drives have different ways of working and different levels of cache etc- it may be fine but may go VERY slow. I would get 3 of the same drive.”

Yes, Thomas is correct. Identical drives should always be used in a RAID configuration. And, that means identical in every way… Same brand, same specs, and same size.

David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
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David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Max Frank]

Thank you to all who contributed to this helpful thread.

Wayne

[Max Frank]

I’m baaaack…

Another question, if I may:

I currently have 2 x 1TB Seagate Drives in my Mac Pro – Model: ST31000528AS
That drive is no longer available.

They now have a newer drive at the same spec, speed, buffer, etc but a different model number: ST31000524AS

Would I be ok to add the newer-same spec’d model, or do I have to replace all my drives with ones that are identical in every way?

Thanks,

Wayne

[Thomas Morter-laing]

As long as the brand, speed, cache and capacity are the same, it should be fine in theory. It’s normally fine anyway, but sometimes not- for example WD Black and Green drives; I think you can get them the same spec (ie cache and ALLEGED speed) but the green drives work very differently, and even though they WILL RAID together, they are pretty unreliable when you do (ie takes ages to get started etc). But you should be fine 🙂

Tom Morter-Laing
Twitter- @TomTheEditor
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[Max Frank]

Thanks Thomas,

Wayne

[Rafael Amador]

Hi David,
I use the RAID-0 just for editing (speed).
I keep all the stuff back up in different HDs.
I start to need something bigger but at the moment I’m waiting where the things are going.
I may end up working with PP on an HP, so time to take it easy and don’t invest.
rafa

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