[Adrian Begon]

Hi Bob

many thanks for this information

I can now go to the camera op supplying me the files and investigate further with him based on this advice.

Just like to add that I appreciate that a man like yourself is clearly totally on top of his technical details and at times, some questions must seem hopelessly inept and it probably gets a bit frustrating to see a question like this appear in front of you. But, just to throw you a little mitigating thought from my end you should know that sometimes for all of us, life goes into full on ‘balls to the wall’ mode – juggling edits, campaigns, and other creative for 3 or 4 clients all at the same time who all want it yesterday – and sometimes your head is so fried you just need to throw out a quick question in the hope of a quick answer from a friendly compadre.

I know it happens to me all the time and when it does I try not to insinuate that the person I’m dealing with is a complete schmuck because for all I know they might also be smokin’ hot at something that I might need an answer about at some time in my life.

Once again greatly appreciated tech advice – I can solve it from here mate

Ade

[Adrian Begon]

Hi Steve

many thanks for this information

I can now go to the camera op supplying me the files and investigate further with him based on this advice

Much appreciated

Best

Ade

[Adrian Begon]

Hi Rainer

thanks so much for this excellent advice – I will follow up on it for sure and now replace all drives with new ones

hugely appreciated
Ade

[Adrian Begon]

Hi folks

first up, thanks a mill for the replies – hugely appreciated! Second apologies for some incorrect information on my part – the raid was (and still is) set to Raid 5 – when I wrote the post I was a bit scrambled and managed to mess that up – not exactly helping myself there. My situation now is that I figured out that somehow I’d put the new drive into it’s own Raid array. Consequently I managed then to unconfigure it and performed a disk array build and have now managed to get it into the same raid array as the other drives.

So now my raid array and other info looks like this (see images) which I think means I’m back in the right place

You guys are correct – I bought the Raid on ebay 6 months ago and it’s only now that a drive has gone bad on me. So I’ve got 2 more questions.
The drive I bought was a Samsung HD – I got that right – but do you think I should change out the WDC drive for another Samsung? Is there a high chance of that failing?
Secondly – in this system all drives atm are 1TB – could I swap them all out for 2TB drives?Would that work on the Promise Peg R4?
Many thanks in advance