Alex Gerulaitis
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[Lindsay Simpson] “So I’m guessing this isn’t feasible, but is it by chance possible to utilize a Nitris DX I/O with PPro rather than Avid?”
Never heard of it being done outside of hiring a Russian hacker (not me) – those seem to be able to just about anything.
Alex (DV411)
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[Brian Tetamore] “Yes. the drive was striped using Mac Disk Utility.”
You are in great shape then.
[Brian Tetamore] “Would it hurt to at least try to install the drives in a new enclosure to see if it mounts? And do the drives need to be installed in the same order as they were in the original enclosure?”
Just make sure the new box supports JBOD (i.e. a mode of operation of no RAID of its own); the order doesn’t matter.
Alex (DV411)
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[Andrew Richards] ” There is virtually no chance you would find a FW800 enclosure that would take your existing drive set and retain the data.”
…unless the box was a JBOD striped in the OS – then all he needs to do is get a JBOD-capable box with FW800 I/O.
All we need to find out is if the drives were striped in the OS. In that case, the data is perfectly salvageable.
Alex (DV411)
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[Brian Tetamore] “I have a four drive esata enclosure stiped as a simple raid that I’d like to pull the HDs and use them in a new enclosure. Can you do this while retaining your original data – remounting the original “raid”?”
If the RAID engine (controller) remains the same – yes.
Alex (DV411)
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[Jon Schilling] “A JBOD 2 bay Firewire 800 storage device is another option.
Back up your data manually, no decrease in speed as with a RAID 1 device.”I like that idea. Is there a Stardom 2- or 4-bay model that allows for RAID1,0 and JBOD?
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[Joel Thiessen] “So with that mentality, what would be the optimal configuration of a RAID? RAID 0?”
RAID1. RAID0 will give you twice the capacity but no protection and no significant performance boost given that the pipe (FW800) isn’t all that fast to begin with.
[Joel Thiessen] “Also, how important (useful) is it to be able to remove and swap the discs in an enclosure?”
Not (important or useful): I assume the plan is to take a drive out and store it on a shelf for backup, and this is not a great practice.
David Ross suggested using separate external (or internal with a docking station) drives, and Walter – using Time Machine, both valid and efficient backup practices.
Alex (DV411)
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You got a point. Still, there is some value in RAID1 for light and medium duty projects: e.g. you spent a day editing an urgent project, only to see one of the drives fail at the end of the day, and the whole edited project with it. Sure, your source files are backed up, but if you start re-creating the project from scratch, you’ll miss the deadline, and possibly, ruin a good working relationship with your client.
Or, you could have spent $200-300 extra on RAID1 protection and that would have saved the day, the time, the project and the client.
Alex (DV411)
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Either one is good for the purpose; personally, I’d go for the iT2DOCK or G-RAID. Ensure the box has decent 7200rpm drives; this way, FW800 will be the bottleneck, not the drives or the RAID level.
Alex (DV411)
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Here is a thread discussing entry-level system configurations optimized for CS5:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/907873
HTH