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Western Digital 150GB 10K drives??
Hi,
I was wondering if anything solid was ever announced about the compatibility of these drives with a Quad G5. I have two strpied (RAID 0) as my boot drive and have been having a lot of crashes and gray screen restart situations. I’ve never had this kind of problem with a Mac before. The thing that I’m curious about is that it only seems to crash when I’m working in FCP. I’ve tried all the normal fixes (trash prefs, repair permissions, etc.) and nothing seems to work. I’m also storing my media on a large RAID connected thru a Sonnet SATA card and using a Aja Kona 3 capture card. I just used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my boot volume to an external FW drive and I haven’t had a crash yet… so I’m really suspicious of the Raptor drives… after hearing that some had had problems with them. Would those problems manifest themselves in FCP instability… or am I barking up the wrong tree??
Anyway… any help would be appreciated.
Ted
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First of all, I think it’s foolhardy to use a RAID 0 array as your boot drive. In RAID 0, a failure on any drive in the array will lead to the entire array crashing, and all the data being lost. IOW, the possibility of your boot drive crashing goes up with the number of drives in the array. If I’d done better than pass statistics back in college (which was over 20 years ago), I could probably tell you how much it goes up as you add drives to the array.
Having said that, what happens if you reformat the drives as separate volumes & try to boot from each of them? It could be that one of the drives is flaky, or that there’s some feature in the drives (their implementation of NCQ or SMART for example) that FCP doesn’t agree with.
Good luck!
Arnie
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I second that! Arnie is absolutely correct. Don’t ever try to boot from a RAID setup. That’s asking for trouble. Try what Arnie suggested. And as for the drives, have you contacted Western Digital yet?
Here’s an idea. Purchase a new Sonnet SATA card and install that into your computer. There maybe be something flaky with Apple and 10k SATA drives.
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Also it may have something to do with the raid being a software controlled raid. i.e. if you striped it with your OS it is now using the OS which is on the drive to keep tabs of the raid it is on. Does that make any sense?
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