Fred Jodry
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Since it has -zillions- of hook up methods, can run RAID 1 to mention, with ease, and can run on only one hard drive if you turn poor someday, it doesn`t sound too bad. (I didn`t check the OS types). It seems nicely maintainable. Remember to use actual backup though.
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Whoa, Matt. It looks like you should ask the manufacturer or seller of the drives what this volumes stuff is. Sometimes the manufacturers give us too few instructions. Other times I think they`re writing exciting and different chapters about as fast as Rudyard Kipling would.
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Instead of having to swap to a spare set of work hard drives every time you want to test “volumes setups”, a new tweak in your software, or whatever, have 2 per cent of each drive, after the main partition, set up as a test partition to test something. When you are done, wipe out the test such as deleting folders, or reach for a software utility to delete and zero out the test partition (on each work drive) and then make new ones (test partitions).
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Matt, if you build a new power supply at the shop or repair the original, you have to get the voltages within 2 per cent or better of originals to get the drives to work. It`s one of my tricks that if I want to try to get a bad hard drive to work I sometimes vary the voltages a little, up or down. In computers themselves instead of hook up boxes, swapping power supplies does this.
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David, I`d imagine that concentrating on the RAID, work, drives instead of the startup volume (boot) drive, is what to do. One way is to use a very good grade regular set like Hitachis. Better results are to use 2-1/2 inch drives, as the swinging of the arms is faster and less electricity. By the time you see the results after the math, this is pretty universal. The lesser electric bill gets remarkable. Considering that the 2- 1/2 inch drives at very economical sizes are maybe 320 GB not 500 GB for the 3-1/2 inch drives, everything points to having more drives in the RAID array, which isn`t necessarily poorer at all. Just when I least expected it, I ran across a sale of 120 GB SATA 300 (read, write, both, around 275 MB per second) SSD drives for $199 apiece. Oh, well, I`ll just have to write in the sand for now and hope the sale repeats someday.
– – Note, SSDs in a RAID 0 should purr like a kitten. – – Fred Jodry(David Gagne Re: RAID- any benefit to having multiple RAID arrays?
by David Gagne on Jan 15, 2011 at 11:41:38 pm
1. If speed on your startup volume is an issue, buy a single SSD for it.
2. What kind of raid controller does your system have? If you have a single drive as your OS, can you still have a 4-drive raid 5? I wouldn’t do RAID 0 for production unless you have realtime backups or your work is amateur only with no money involved.) -
Make a really small (~40 GB or smaller) partition on each and test for yourself. Then you can zero out past the partitions and use your own best result.
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The winners are your liking, needing public. Sell a distibution run and get paid yesterday. We professionals could see it after you get paid, not before.
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Thanks David, I use formats older than that. My enthusiasm for the Alexa has always been so others in the industry wouldn`t lose their jobs. When I open the newspaper and see that one or two stations have closed their door for good this morning and 50 or 100 people lost their jobs, that`s disgusting. I wish I could take their antenna towers to the next station that needs one.
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Ron`s, learned, idea seems the best as practical to me although one possibility would be an intermediate contest where first entries are no cash and judged, and level winners can then bust a gut for a reasonable $8 for the next work entry. One can earn $100 in my area by mowing 50 lawns (other work varying or cheats) so it`s one of the reminders how fast money leaks. For the complainers, besides the fact that I can`t find or make lots of big corks enough, why don`t you see if you can save some money by,
1. Turn off your all- day coffee pot at work. You`ll save that much electricity in a single month.
2. Restore a Radio Steel wagon for your kid instead of buying some plastic junk of the same price or worth. Money saved in a single project, $250 to 500.
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(My comment below David`s).
Re: RAID- any benefit to having multiple RAID arrays?
by David Roth Weiss on Jan 4, 2011 at 10:29:20 am[Todd Perchert] “I wouldn’t suggest striping them all together and putting the OS and Programs on with the media.”
Nor would I, but I also would not advise him to create a second raid as a virtual system drive system. That’s just a waste of space and speed. He’d be much better off striping three drives together at raid 0 and leaving the OS and apps on a single drive.
On the other hand, if he can type or edit at the speed of light I could possibly be persuaded otherwise. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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This is a moment of changing the topic which is why I`m burying my comment below David`s. David, do you see any Production /Post places in your area retiring and leaving behind nice equipment? Nothing here. Fred Jodry