• Storage & Archiving

  RAID partitioning/drive testing

  Posted by Jonathan De villiers on August 15, 2010 at 12:51 pm

  Hi,

  What are the considerations partitioning large external RAIDs? I’ve just put 2TB drives in my three RAID boxes so I’m thinking now of how best to organise them. I’m a film maker and photographer working with EX1 and HDCAM files in Final Cut and big layered Photoshop files. This is what I’ve got now:

  Mac Pro,
  Boot/application drive,
  6TB internal RAID 0 for fast still image work,
  18TB RAID 5 SAS run off an Areca 1680x for fast video work,
  7.5TB eSATA and a 20TB eSATA RAID 5 boxes run off a HighPoint 2314 for backup and archiving.

  Should I partition? If so, in what way? To what purpose?
  Also, how should I test the drives before the RAID build? (I’ve run them through Disk Utility, checked I can write to and from them and am now doing a surface scan in Drive Genius. Is it worth doing this last step? (cos it’s going to take about a week at this rate).

  Jonathan De villiers replied 15 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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