Jon Schilling
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Hey Ruben,
You wouldn’t be able to share that product in the way in which you described. The best you could hope for is to “sneaker net” the drive between the 2 machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Michael,
I think I overlooked the information pertaining to your box, I thought it was a dock or something…. Did you ask the istoragepro guys if they would send you a replacement chassis to try out? My guess is that the bridge-board inside the chassis is fried.
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Michael,
Knowing who’s “box” you are using would help to understand possible solutions. I take it you tried all available I/O, inputs, on the “box” & it still didn’t mount?
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Chris,
I’m with Proavio/Enhance Technologies. While it’s good to see that you went with the Areca 1882x card, we do not recommend using WD Caviar green drives in our arrays and using them would lend itself to poor performance. I’m going to check with our lead technician, Luis Rodriguez & I’ll have him follow up. You are of course free to call or email us as well.
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Paolo
I believe what you have (and I’m guessing) are 2 – 2TB Lacie rugged 3.5″ hard drives that you are looking to archive, correct? What kind of host machine are you hooked up to & what I/O, (interface) are you using? Are you looking to back up 4TB of data onto something else that you’re then archiving?
Jonathan Schilling
Vertical Sales Manager
Proavio
12221 Florence Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Main: 562-777-3488 X106
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Ben,
The potential problem with Seagate drives is not with the drives, but the firmware. Some Seagate drives may not have the same firmware, drive to drive. You could potentially update the firmware for use with the system you’re using, controller card, etc, but that would require getting the firmware from Seagate & installing it, which requires a PC running in DOS.
In the end, you’re better off going the hassle-free route of using Hitachi drives.
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Ben,
You should be MUCH happier with those drives. Let us know how that pans out for you.
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Hey Ben.
I’ve never recommended “Green” drives in a RAID for the reason that was pointed out to you among others (namely reliability). I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Green drives being used in anything but the lowest end single drive enclosures.
Is FW800 the “BEST” choice in the machine you have? No.
You could go with mini-SAS, but you’d need to invest in a RAID controller to get speed and data redundancy, something like what we sell, EB400MS: https://www.proavio.com/eb400ms-mini-sas-desktop-raid-ready-storage.html, along with a Areca 1223X card which would afford you 450MB/s in RAID 5, if you had the budget & the expansion of an 8 lane or better slot available to you. Or you could also go with a EB800MS https://www.proavio.com/eb800ms-mini-sas-desktop-raid-ready-storage.html with that same Areca card & get 900MB/s read write in RAID 5, 800MB/s + read/write in RAID 6, but it all comes down to your budget, need for speed & available PCIe slots in your machine.People that use our products are very satisfied with the performance, protection & service that we provide.
Jonathan Schilling
Vertical Sales Manager
Proavio
12221 Florence Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Dir: 562-777-3498
Main: 562-777-3488 X106
Fax: 562-777-3499
Email: jon@proavio.comSee our forum: https://forums.creativecow.net/proavio
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Wes.
Have you tried contacting OWC directly on your issue? I’d do that as a 1st step. Make sure the drives you’re using are compatible with their enclosure.
Jonathan Schilling
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Proavio
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Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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Simon,
You’re welcome to email us for the benchmark speeds on the S8MS (my email is in my tag). We now have a new product, the 16 bay rack-mount, IS316JS (Introduced at NAB)https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/362/11 which is mini-SAS (expandable to 144TB) at 1200 MB/s.
Jonathan Schilling
Vertical Sales Manager
Proavio
12221 Florence Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Dir: 562-777-3498
Main: 562-777-3488 X106
Fax: 562-777-3499
Email: jon@proavio.comSee our forum: https://forums.creativecow.net/proavio