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Andrew Macrae
August 25, 2011 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Building a new RAID and archiving the old drives

Wow this thread went downhill fast. I’d just like to chime in and say that one of my requests in the OP was for a knowledgeable retailer, so I certainly didn’t take offense or consider it weaselish for someone to suggest a company, even if it’s there own.

Secondly Alex, I didn’t realize that you are also a reseller. I don’t spend a ton of time around here and I’m not really familiar with the “usual suspects”. I thought you were just a friendly knowledgeable chap who gave some very helpful responses. Once I had your information I was quite happy to move on to someone who could provide me with a quote for product, not knowing you were one of these types of people. I’d be happy to speak with you privately as well and get a quote for our needs.

Cheers

Andrew MacRae
Audio Engineer, Outreach Productions
Andrew Macrae
August 23, 2011 at 7:24 pm in reply to: Building a new RAID and archiving the old drives

So I’m working away still researching all this, sent you an email Ron. One thing though, Drobo seems like a great solution for my archiving needs, but are there any competitors with similar features/price point that I should be considering?

Thanks

Andrew

Andrew MacRae
Audio Engineer, Outreach Productions
Andrew Macrae
August 22, 2011 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Building a new RAID and archiving the old drives

Thanks guys, I really appreciate your info. I’ll try to be in touch later this week Ron.

Andrew MacRae
Audio Engineer, Outreach Productions
Andrew Macrae
August 16, 2011 at 6:05 pm in reply to: Building a new RAID and archiving the old drives

Thanks Alex. Ok here’s my thoughts.

First off I was more or less set to pick up a Stardom ST8-U5 with an R680 card. Fill it with 2 TB drives for 16TB of storage, or roughly 12TB of usable space in a RAID 6 configuration, or so I’m told. This would do for quite a while, but one of my questions is, what happens when it does inevitably fill up? Can you swap out drives like on a drobo to add space? By the time it would fill up, 4TB drives or bigger would be the norm. Is there a max size for these types of RAID?

Before I could even get these questions answered mr sales was telling me about cineRAID products. Which is all well and good, they seem to be very good products, but they also seem to be a bit more expensive. Although I don’t even really know as I couldn’t even get a price for the Stardom products. So my biggest question was- what’s the difference between the two? Is one superior, and if so why?

For archiving I’ve looked at the drobo before, and then kind of forgot about it. If I were to get an 8 bay unit loaded with 16TB, how much actual usable space would it have? I know it wouldn’t be suitable as an edit bay, but would it work fine for doing simple edits and re-exports of old projects? Obviously for a full overhaul the media would have to be moved to the new RAID.

I’m sure I’ll have some other questions, but that’s all I can think of right now.

Thanks for you help.

Andrew MacRae
Audio Engineer, Outreach Productions