Jon Schilling
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We’re hoping for mid Jan 2011
Jon
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John,
We have a product coming soon that would fit the bill, but I can’t think of anything off the top of my head at the moment, except maybe something possibly from Drobo….
This is what we have in the works.
SOHORAID SR5Hope that helps for what it’s worth.
Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 626-333-7888
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Tim,
Fair enough, happy to have helped.
Jon
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Tim,
Bob’s right, our ST8-U5 mini-SAS does have a 6Gb/s backplane, so you can use either the ATTO R380 card, 3Gb/s or the R680 6Gb/s card, although that card may not be available to you there yet. We’re getting fast speeds, enough to do what you need to accomplish with the R380 card, RAID 5 speeds of 7-800MB/s read-write. If you need anything else, ANY QUESTIONS on setup, etc you’re welcome to call & or email us.
Jon Schilling
jon@raidon-usa.com
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
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Brian,
I’ll give you a ring & we’ll see what we can do from there. It sounds like you want to get your data off that array though, can’t blame you. Ideally we’ll direct you towards a safe transition.
Jon
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Brian, asking question & getting answers are what the Cow forums like this are about. Ignorance would be not asking questions. 😉
Is there a problem with the original enclosure?
As long as the 2nd enclosure is the same as the 1st, you should be OK.
Anything else? Do ask.
Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
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Brian said “I assume that if I can’t connect them all through one card that my MacBook Pro will not read them properly. Is that correct”
Jon: Correct, the array would not be read correctly if you went to an ExpressCard to eSATA (since you have a software STRIPE on the array already) you’d have to reformat the array effectively deleting that data!
It’s good that you’ve not had a drive fail with your current setup, because losing a drive would be, well, very bad, you could lose everything. Do backup & please consider a 4 bay hardware RAID 5 option. Using a software OS stripe isn’t a good – safe, long term option for the reason I pointed out above. We know how important data protection is. If your OS get’s corrupted, or you lose a drive, it’s your data!
We have one, SOHORAID SR4
Hope that we’ve helped, that’s certainly our goal.
Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
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How many ports are on the back of your array? If there’s 1 port, your array has port multiplication, if it has 4 ports, it’s what’s considered a “DUMMY JBOD box” and connects like 4 independent eSATA external drives would. If you have 1 port on the back, you’re in business with Bob’s recommendation. If it has 4 ports, you’ll only be able to communicate with 2 of the 4 drives, in JBOD, with a 2 port ExpressCard 34mm to eSATA card, as Bob was mentioning. Either way, this is ONLY going to allow your 4 bay array to operate in JBOD, unless you throw a software RAID stripe on there, which I would NOT suggest & Bob Zelin would probably agree with me on. Again, I would highly recommend against putting a software STRIPE on your array. Doing so COULD cause irrecoverable data loss if a drive in the array fails. This setup is really only appropriate when in JBOD, or non-striped “just a bunch of disks”.
Another reason to go with a hardware RAID array with RAID 5 or at least RAID 1 for safety & piece of mind.
We sell a 2 port eSATA, ExpressCard 34 here: 2-Port eSATA ExpressCard/34 Adapter
Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
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Hey Christopher,
I held off for a couple days to see if anyone else would address your questions, (in the interest of fairness to others), apparently nobody did.
1. Software RAID isn’t generally recommended.
2. A software RAID would limit you to a particular machine & OS version per the software RAID, so no, you couldn’t take it between machines.
3. Hardware RAID is really the way to go.
4. This STARDOM product would do the trick for you: (click link below)
SOHORAID SR2 with Hardware RAID 1Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
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Milan.
You may want to check the “abit” literature that comes with the card you want to use to see what they recommend, or contact them if not check their FAQ page. Unless someone on this or another forum is using & has experience with the same card – hardware configuration, your best bet is the manufacturer.
I will say this though, for the sake of simplicity, only run drives of the same make & model number, and capacity when dealing with any hardware RAID. I’d also highly recommend Enterprise class drives for the best fault protection & long term reliability, especially in a RAID setting.
Jon Schilling | Vice President of Sales & Marketing
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 626-333-7888
https://www.stardom-usa.com/