Raid for M100 v8 (Mirrored Drive Doors G4)

[Floh Peters]

Try to find a SATA card that works in your G4, and connect some SATA drives to it. MacGurus seems to be a good place to find some SATA stuff for “older” systems.
Otherwise you could try to use FireWire drives, too. Most likely you will not get lossless data rates with them, though.

[Joe Hayden]

For my Dual 1ghz G4 with 8.22 the SATA solution has been more reliable than the firewire.

L.O.A.

[Wickham Strub]

Hey Joe,

Exactly what SATA equipment have you used or this? I recall back when I was on the Tech Support phones full-time that I would talk to users having troubles that ended up leading to their SATA card/drive setup.

Now, of course, people only call Tech Support when something is NOT working and that doesn’t that some setups don’t work just fine as you have found. So, please share with the rest of the class.

~Wick

[Joe Hayden]

I’m pretty sure I used MacGuru’s;

The pci card is :

SeriTek/1SE2 v. 5.1.3,11/22/05, 23:47:18:

I think I have 2(250gb) drives in an external enclosure.

I’ll see if I can find any more info. The Model # (if the sticker contained it) was way too small to see for me on the exernal enclosure.

Cheers,

Joe

L.O.A.

[Christopher Kinsman]

Hi Joe, I’ve been using a 2.5TB sata raid with my m100i 8.2.3 for over 2 years starting on an 867 machine and now on my MDD 1.42ghz system. I purchased a “roll your own” from Mac Gurus and they sent me case with sleds. Got my drives on sale and it all went together easily. I purchased a sonnet tempo x4p sata card which has been flawless. I highly recommend Mac Gurus and the owner Rick. They are extremely knowledgable on all mac systems. I had one glitch where the raid wouldn’t mount and I called and Rick the owner walked me through a couple of tests. He then sent me a replacement part (Free!) that installed easily and completely fixed my problem. This was 18 months AFTER I bought the machine. Who offers that! Mac Gurus raids use port multipliers so my 5 drive raid only uses 1 sata port on the card. I’ve still got 3 more ports for storage expansion. Can’t say enough good things about these guys. Just search their name and the website will pop up. When I use external FW drives on my M100i I seem to crash because the FW spins down. Maybe it’s just me – but I love my Sata Raid! You should be able to build your own 2.5 TB(2.3 usable) with seagate drives for around $1200. A 5 TB (4.6 usable) will run you around $1700. Best of Luck!
Kind Regards
Chris K.

[Maxwell Federman]

Hello

We are now in the process of locating the correct SATA card for PCI.

Why are external drives required? Is it because the M100 software was written to work with the media files connected to the PCI bus?

My employer attempted to run the tutorial, storing the media files on a second internal hard drive. The project crashes upon attempting the import. I assume this is somehow due to the drive arrangement, perhaps someone could shed some light on this one?

Thank you,

Max Federman

[Maxwell Federman]

I found the info in another thread: Internal Drives and m100

[Wickham Strub]

Hey Max,

Could you please paste the the link to the post that answered your question?

Thanks,
Wick

[Maxwell Federman]

Hello

Here is a link to the post:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/4/862116

[Maxwell Federman]

hello

We have received our SATA card in the post today.

We are hoping someone can confirm wether or not the slot order of the pci cards is important to the setup process??

Thanks again for all of the help

Max