RAID problems

[Nick August-perna]

Ok thanks, and I should do this Extended, NOT journaled, correct?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Nick August-Perna] “Ok thanks, and I should do this Extended, NOT journaled, correct?”

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[Jeremy Garchow]

According to this, you can stripe multiple GRaid ES together.

https://www.g-technology.com/Products/g-speed-es.cfm

I would get all of your media off of there, and then stripe all 8 drives as Raid5.

It looks like there’s a GUI that goes along with this, and a manual. I’d follow what it says there so you don’t get in to anymore trouble.

Also, some RAID manufacturers recommend journaled drives, especially when it comes to redundant raids, but you will have to check with GRAID.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

OH! Well shows you what I know. I didn’t even go to the website, if I did I’d have seen:

“Two G-SPEED eS units in fail-safe mode (RAID 5) support 10-bit, 1080i and more! ”

Guess I am stuck to my research on the original G-Speed, the non-eS, a while ago.

Thanks Jeremy. Interesting that G-Tech support didn’t mention this to the OP.

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[Ben Holmes]

Just to chime in – I use two G-Speed ES’s configured together as RAID5 running off the single G-Tech E-Sata card. Screaming fast for the money, and I’ve never had a single problem. It is ABSOLUTELY supported by the drivers and software – just to clear that one up.

I would suggest you physically re-install the e-SATA card, ensuring it’s in the correct slot (see the excellent G-Tech setup docs) and re-install the drivers for it.

Then USE THE G-TECH INTERFACE to configure and build the drives – not a third party solution, NOT disk utility. As suggested previously, make sure it’s set up as OSX extended.

I’m pretty sure from what you’ve described the issue is either a bad build, or a bad installation (or maybe a bad e-SATA card). You can do quite a lot of diagnosis from the G-Tech interface (which is a web panel – again read the manual).

Good luck.

Ben

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