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RAID External Solutions
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I know, but I don’t think the budget could go as up as 5K$CAD, and for he G-Speed 1.5TB, it’s 4.4K$CAD. It seems to gonna be the solution if I can’t get a good eSATA RAID5 for around 2-3K$CAD.
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It seems great, but can’t find a price ?
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[walter biscardi] “We killed two of them here in about 3 months…Just FYI.”
Crap…really?
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For RAID 5 to SATA, you have 3 options, ATTO ExpressSAS (also does SATA), 3Ware Side Car or Highpoint RocketRaid. All of these are available for PCIe (if you have a Mac Pro or G5 Quad). If you need PCI-X for a G5, then there’s the ATTO or Highpoint cards, and I think DatOptic may make a card for PCI-X.
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And my S2VR Duo has been working fine. One hiccup, but that was figured out. Solid since.
But I am working on a long form project…long duration. Walter is capturing, color correcting and outputting mulitple shows a week.
To be fair, he did have great success wth the Duo units…when they were formatted as separate units.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[JeremyG] “[walter biscardi] “We killed two of them here in about 3 months…Just FYI.”
Crap…really?”
Really.
Then they sent us 4 Duo’s striped together to tide us over until they could resolve whatever happened to the two S2VR HD’s and I killed that in about two weeks or so. They just either don’t mount or the drives eject themselves for no apparent reason.
We’re currently running off a LaCie S2S SATA array that’s been running without a hiccup for a year in my other two suites while we discuss Fibre options with several companies. Still have the LaCie 2TB FW800 RAID as the trusty backup.
I really like the guys at CalDigit and hope they will resolve whatever their current issues are, but unfortunately we’re looking in other directions right now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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[Shane Ross] “To be fair, he did have great success wth the Duo units…when they were formatted as separate units.”
absolutely correct. CalDigit sent those last four units striped together to maintain the speed and storage amount I was getting in the S2VR HD units. The array ejected itself when I started a render and though the drives did re-mount one more time, I was not able to salvage anything before they ejected themselves again and went un-initialized.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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You can go with the G-Speed enclosure and buy your own drives. That’s what I’m thinking of doing. The company would like to sell you their tested drives, at 5 times the cost, but I’m willing to take the chance of having to swap a drive now and then.
jmf
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Thanks for your inputs Walter. What would you recommend as an external eSATA RAID5 solution, supposed that I can buy the RAID enclosure only, put in the drives I choose on my own and then attach it to a RAID controller plugged into my MacPro ?
Thanks !
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[Pierre-Luc] “What would you recommend as an external eSATA RAID5 solution, supposed that I can buy the RAID enclosure only, put in the drives I choose on my own and then attach it to a RAID controller plugged into my MacPro ?”
I don’t. I only look to Fibre Channel for RAID 5 right now.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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