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  • Upgrading G5 – Will my Xserve RAID stay raided?

    Posted by Jason Kalinoski on January 11, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Hello all,

    We are upgrading our edit suite to a new (refurbed)octo. We use an Xserve RAID for storage.

    Will it lose the striping when changing over to the new cpu? Or is the RAID maintained on the Xserve?

    Thanks!
    Jason Kalinoski

    Evolution Media
    Tallahass, FL

    Matthew Nelson replied 18 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Brad Bussé

    January 11, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    If you’re only striping with hardware, then there’s no issue for sure, i.e. – if you have both controllers striped as RAID-5. But I’m not sure about the software side of things. I’m upgrading too and I have mine striped on hardware as 2 RAID-5s that are then software RAID-0 striped (RAID-50). I’m assuming that you just use Disk Utility to rebuild the two RAID-5s back together on the new system. Maybe someone else can clarify.

  • Jason Kalinoski

    January 11, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    Saddler, thanks for your response.

    I had forgotten about the RAID 50 option, which is how mine is striped.

  • Devin Crane

    January 11, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    It will stay raided even in software. We have a raid 50; 2 raid 5s software raided together at raid 0 and have had no problems switching between our G5 and Mac Pro during the upgrade. We have done so between 3 different computers and the Raid did not separate.

  • Jason Kalinoski

    January 11, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Thanks Devin! That will make life easy.

    I was starting to wonder how I was going to back up 3tb worth of video…

    Jason

  • Matthew Nelson

    January 11, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    I would still back up the criticals. Projects, assets not from tape etc. Good practice to do before any upgrade.

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