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RAID 5 organization
Just installed a RAID 5 array and wondered how to go about my organization. I have a Quad with two internal drives, one bootdrive and the other was my media drive.
From now on I’ll capture video to my eSata RAID array and save my FCP docs to my bootdisk, as I’ve always done. Or should I save my FCP docs to my RAID as well? Or save to my bootdrive and use retrospect to make a daily copy of that drive on the second internal drive? Or…?
I wonder what others have found a comfortable workflow.
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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[Imagine Video] “From now on I’ll capture video to my eSata RAID array and save my FCP docs to my bootdisk, as I’ve always done.”
That ‘s the traditional way to do it. Keep all of your media, JPGs, audio, video, everything that needs to be played back in an FCP timeline on your raid.
Jeremy
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[JeremyG] “That ‘s the traditional way to do it. Keep all of your media, JPGs, audio, video, everything that needs to be played back in an FCP timeline on your raid.
Jerem”
And (where) do you save backups of your FCP docs?
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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Well, you can now use your former media drive as a backup drive, or if you are really paranoid, you can zip and email a copy of the project to yourself every night, or burn a cd or dvd. Whatever you feel is best. Dragging the project to your former media drive will be the fastest. You can also store a copy of the project on the raid as well. Probably the most secure option.
Jeremy
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Thanks, Jeremy. I have one more question, maybe you know the answer: I cannot ‘eject’ the RAID on my desktop as I’ve always been able to do with other external drives.
Is this because it’s a RAID or because it’s eSata? How can I safely shut down the RAID without shutting down the computer? Just turn it off using it’s On/Off switch?I looked in the manual and it doesn’t say anything about shutting down the array… typical, eh?
(Who wants to join me in a film about manuals?)
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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What RAID/controller card do you have?
If you don’t see an eject button, you can open the disk utility and use the ‘Unmount’ feature or you can simply turn off your computer, then power down the raid. Do not turn off the raid with your computer on.
Jeremy
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I have a LaCie Biggest Quadra. PCI-E Sata card.
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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Simply drag the icon for the raid to the trash… It doesn’t erase everything, it ejects the drive(s) or takes them offline.
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Thanks for the help, guys.
G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2
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