RAID 5 formatting for PROMISE Pegasus2 R6 12TB (6 x 2TB) Thunderbolt 2 RAID System for FCPX 10.1?

[Tim Jones]

While it would be great if there could be a cut and dried answer, there are a few questions here that you should consider –

[Gary Adcock]

[Peter Dunphy] “We have installers coming to set up a PROMISE Pegasus2 R6 12TB (6 x 2TB) Thunderbolt 2 RAID System on Tuesday. “

Why? it is a plug and play system, the config utility is simple and easy to understand.

I always recommend using Raid 5 at minimum, if you need that extra 2TB for something you should have bought a bigger array, NOTHING in post is more painful than loosing data to dead drives, at least with riad 5 redundancy you have some safety net on your projects.

gary adcock
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[John Davidson]

Exactly right Gary. Plug it in and leave it alone. It’s preformatted as RAID5 and that’s exactly what you want.

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[Bret Williams]

Mine did have to go through some routine that took all night though.

[Gary Adcock]

[Bret Williams] “Mine did have to go through some routine that took all night though.”

I have most of the monitoring tools set to run in the background, and I NEVER have any external drive set for journalling.

They come formatted out the of the box, but overnight for 12+ TB is pretty good, it would take the early Xraids what seemed like forever to format 4 or 6 TB of space.

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[Jason Jenkins]

[Bret Williams] “Mine did have to go through some routine that took all night though.”

My Pegasus R6 (6TB) took around 24 hours to get through the setup, which was waaaay longer than the instructions indicated. No problem, just unexpected and disconcerting.

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[Bret Williams]

I forget what it’s called, but yes it was already formatted for raid 5. It just had to do some process that took many hours or overnight until it had full speed. I just have the r4 8tb, so I take a 25% space hit. But mine is my current projects drive. When projects are done I consolidate them to a mirrored raid. A guardian Maximus from newer tech.

[Peter Dunphy]

**Are you using Enterprise-grade disks or consumer-grade disks?

Here’s the info I got about the type of disks in the Pegasus2 we’ll be receiving:

“I’ve done a little bit of research and I can confirm that the Promise Pegasus R6 Drives are enterprise grade hard drives. They are 7200 rpm SATA drives that are made by Promise.”

**Are you going to use the array for long term storage, or just day to day editing operations?

day to day editing operations

**Are you backing the content up to an alternate device (disk, tape, cloud)?

nope

**Do you need the full 12TB, or is 10TB enough (the difference between RAID 0 and RAID 5 formatting)?

10TB is fine

[Gary Adcock]

[Peter Dunphy] “”I’ve done a little bit of research and I can confirm that the Promise Pegasus R6 Drives are enterprise grade hard drives. They are 7200 rpm SATA drives that are made by Promise.””

I do not know where you got that info but it is incorrect- Promise does not make any hard drives,

Drives listed in my units (I have 5 units) are all from Hitachi and can be checked via the serial numbers and model used in the Promise Raid Utility App.

gary adcock
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[Peter Dunphy]

Interesting Gary, thanks for the info, will check it out.