[Christopher Targia]

Thank you for responding Jon, unfortunately I had already left for my trip when you responded. However, your advice was contradictory to my experience.

In my own testing I was able to take each drive either individually or separately and access the files on the drive and the RAID as a whole or degraded on an old 10.4 mac, so I took the files I need and head out for my trip with two FW800 RAID1 drives, the computer I had to use at my trip was a 10.6, I was able to use it no problem. And then when coming back the new footage was able to be read no problem. I actually would recommend doing this as apposed to having two drives and copying the information to each drive separately.

The hardware raid option would not have worked for me because I already had the drives and I could not take each drives separately, basically my company wanted someone else to take the backup hard drive on a different plane in case someone happens to one drive the other might be okay. But its my fault for not mentioning that.

Why are software raids not generally recommended? Is there a better way to but multiple external hard drives on a raid?

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[Christopher Targia]

PS

The eSata is a software raid (Apple Disk Utility)

The internal uses the Apple Raid Card and Apple Raid Utility, which I assume is a hardware raid, although I am able to easily build and destroy raids in the OS, not in the BIOS like I used to do back in my XP days.

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[Christopher Targia]

Also, can I boot off an eSata or Firewire drive? If I can, is that even a good idea?

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[Christopher Targia]

because that is how my IT guy here at the office set it up as 2.5 years ago, I didn’t know enough about editing back then to tell him otherwise, So i have these 4 internal HDDs, an a raid card, how should I set it up? 1 drive as a boot, and the other three on raid 5 for main scratch disk?

also, i did the ram check, rember said it was all good. THank you!

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[Christopher Targia]

Currently running RAM Test with Rember, lets see how that works out.

My current set up has a Raid 5 as my Internal Boot Disk. 4 500GB Drives with Mac Raid Card.

I just had Firefox crash in the same fashion, so my externals should have nothing to do with this, right? My Main starch disk is a software RAID 0 made up of 3 of these drives
https://www.amazon.com/AcomData-PureDrive-Desktop-External-PHD10000USE-72/dp/B000YUFUCO

there are all about 2 years old or so, and I have never had any problems with them, but only used them as usb drives for occasional backup until a few months ago when I set up the raid array.

I have additional FW800 Drives for backup

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[Christopher Targia]

The only energy saver I use is putting the display to sleep, I don’t put my computer to sleep or spin down hard drives. Thank you for your continued input.

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[Christopher Targia]

Mainly I will use 3 eSata drives on a Raid 0 array, (because its fast!) and then back the stuff up at the end of the day, (because 3x chance of drive failure!!). But I know its not waiting for the drive to speed up because I have literally waiting for over an hour and its still waiting.

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[Christopher Targia]

Thanks for your inputs,

It’s not a corrupt files, because it happens on multiples files, and sometimes even multiple programs, but FCP is by FAR the worst, happening multiple times a day! And I also found this problem happens regardless of what scratch disk I used, at first I thought it could have been a problem with my eSata Raid, but even a FW800 single drive got similar crashes.

I will go ahead and back all my crap up and redo everything, anything to stop this is crippling my productivity.

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[Christopher Targia]

No, I saw I had the option to keep my files, I figured this was better then backing everything up

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[Christopher Targia]

DVCPRO HD, and DV/NTSC. Could be from alot of jpegs, but there are less then 20 of them.

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