-
RAID External Solutions
-
Damn, just saw it.
-
I think I found a great solution. I will fill the G5 with 4 Seagate 7200.10 750GB with PCI-X RAID controller (Which is good ?) and install OSX-FCP on a separate FW800 external drive, doesn’t sound rock-solid ?!
-
[Pierre-Luc] “doesn’t sound rock-solid ?!”
You keep switching from “I need protection” to “I need cheap and easy”… Putting four drives in your MacPro is fine (although I’m not fond of runing FCP off of Firewire), but it certainly doesn’t fit into all this chat about needing Raid-5.
-
[Pierre-Luc] “I think I found a great solution. I will fill the G5 with 4 Seagate 7200.10 750GB with PCI-X RAID controller (Which is good ?) and install OSX-FCP on a separate FW800 external drive, doesn’t sound rock-solid ?!”
You mean MAC PRO, right? I would do that, but forgo the external FW drive. I’d use this:
https://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=158
But then again…you cannot get RAID 5…you can only get Raid 1 or Raid 0. But I am perfectly happy with Raid 0 myself. Then again, I have two RAIDS…one that I edit with, and one as a backup of all the footage. The backup is a cheaper, slower case solution.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Who talked about “cheap & easy” ? I just don’t have additional 5000$ for Ciprico or G-Speed array. But I didn’t know I can’t get RAID5 with internal SATA, why ?
-
Yeah, Mac Pro 2x Dual-Core 2.66GHz Xeon. Thanks for the link, very interesting. But having OS on FW drive works pretty well, read reviews and Jerry Hoffman’s article in Cow Magazine.
But why I can’t get RAID5 with internal SATA drives and a PCI-X RAID controller?
-
Because Raid-5 is hardware raid, Raid-0 is software raid and that’s all you got when installing inside or using a low-cost enclousre without a built-in hardware raid… Those are the expensive ones…
-
[Pierre-Luc] “But I didn’t know I can’t get RAID5 with internal SATA, why ?”
RAID 5 requires a hardware controller that provides that. The MacPro doesn’t have that. Many eSATA Raids don’t have that either. The ones that do cost a lot more than ones that don’t. eSATA is an inexpensive RAID solution, but if you want RAID 5, then the cost goes up.
The SIDECAR by 3Ware is a RAID 5 array…4 drives. It costs considerably more than a Sonnet 500P, or CalDigit S2VR HD unit. But you have Raid 5.
https://www.3ware.com/products/Ext_serial_ata2-9000.asp
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
I know RAID5 need hardware controller, that’s why I suggested to use a PCI-X RAID controller, shouldn’t work ?
For external, I found that:
https://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/657?osCsid=2210c35754829cf46223830606b971e6 -
You cannot connect the PCI-X controller card to the drives on the MacPro. They connect to the Mac directly via their drive sled slots. You cannot change that connection to the controller card. So a Raid 5 solution would be external only.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up