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Upgrading a RAID card…
Hi there,
Forgive the silliness of this question, I do feel i should know this by now…
I have a client who has two ProAvio EB8MS arrays attached to a Highpoint RAID card in the server. We want to do an upgrade of both the Server (to the latest Mac Pro) and the RAID card (to an ATTO R380).
Problem is they have terabytes and terabytes of data on the arrays at present.
My question is, can I just swap out the Highpoint RAID card and replace it with the ATTO and conserve all the data as it is? My guess is a big NO, although I do understand that the RAID formatting information is stored on the drives themselves rather than on the RAID card…
Thanks in advance as ever…
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5 Replies
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I wouldn’t trust my data with that swap and would absolutely do a back up 1st.
Ryan Stoutenborough
Studio Network Solutions
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Hi Jacob –
I did something similar – switching from an Areca 1680x host adaptor to an ATTO R380. Did it work ? NO. Did I have to rebuild from scratch – YES. Same will happen with the Highpoint.Bob Zelin
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Yeah that’s what I thought, thanks for the heads up!
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Hi Bob,
Why did you swap the Areca for the Atto? Did the Areca not live up to your/their expectations?
Just curious, thats all.Marc Bostrom
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The Areca 1680x is a fantastic card, but suffers latency issues, which become apparant in shared storage enviornments. To the end user, this ultimately means DROP FRAME errors when playing out their show. Of course, you never see this in single user applications, where the Areca performs wonderfully.
Bob Zelin
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