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RAID AND PRORES 422 Oh not again…
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Awesome understand fully now, thanks mate for your time, really helped me get to grips with it.
So Raid 0 is the most productive but has no security
Raid 1 is simply a mirror of your original drive and is simply security but wont enhance performance
Internal raid is cheapest option, keep original drive as boot drive and stripe other 2 or 3 drives as your raid via utilities
External raid is more expensive and will need a raid card but might be a bit more reliable than internal
With external raid I take sata connection is best over firewire 800?
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[jason laville] “With external raid I take sata connection is best over firewire 800? “
Both are reliable. SATA is a faster connection than FW800.
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[jason laville] “So Raid 0 is the most productive but has no security “
WIth the speed of off the shelf hard drives these days, RAID protection is not counter productive.
You get an A on your RAID quiz. Nice job.
[jason laville] “With external raid I take sata connection is best over firewire 800? “
Yes, most likely. You will have a hard time trying to find a reliable fw800 raid with any protection. I f you’re going to spend money, go with a SATA or SAS raid. The D800 I linked to earlier is SAS connections with SATA drives in the enclosure. The Raid protection is done on the raid card itself.
Jeremy
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“You get an A on your RAID quiz. Nice job. ”
Dont count till I get a sticker lol, thanks mate once again, will take the plunge next week. Was going to buy the new sgblade 35mm adapter but will get that next month
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[jason laville] “Dont count till I get a sticker”
Will you settle for a virtual sticker?
To me, a raid is the backbone of any edit suite. Without it, you won’t be able to remain standing for too long.
Jeremy
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Brilliant lol cheers, just printed it and stuck it on my fridge lol.
Ordering external raid tomo, thanks once again
Jay
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Hi sorry guys quick question, I know how to install physically the internal hardrives, anyone can tell me what to do after that, I.e how to stripe 3 of the drives to raid 0 and keep the forth drive as my boot disk?
Cheers
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Open Apple Disk Utility — highlight the three drives you want to raid — click on the RAID T=tab — drag the three disk drive icons into the window — name the raid something like “Jasons 3Tb Raid” — leave Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (journaled) — choose Striped RAID Set — hit Create.
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Wow that straight forward thanks guys. Just one more thing, is it possible to buy 2 extra drives now, raid them, then get another say two months down the line and then include that in the raid? or would I have to stripe all three again and lose any media I had on the previous two?
Thanks, Im getting on my nerves now with all these questions lol
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[jason laville] “is it possible to buy 2 extra drives now, raid them, then get another say two months down the line and then include that in the raid?”
No, you’d have to completely restripe all three drives together which will wipe the data off of them.
Best to do all three of them at once.
Jeremy
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