[Jon Schilling]

Milan, I think the reason your post hasn’t been responded to is that you didn’t include what KIND of hardware RAID product (external)? internal? you’re looking to use with the hdd’s you have.

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/

[Jon Schilling]

Daniel.

You might want to contact the RAID Controller card company & give them that info. Once you’ve ruled that out, then you can move on to the next thing down the list that could be problematic.

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/

[Jon Schilling]

I was in touch with ATTO last night and they don’t recommend or support SAS to eSATA

ATTO, answered your question.

This work-flow is bound to be problematic, because there are too many conversions involved.

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
http://www.stardom-usa.com

The STARDOM ST8-U5 with the ATTO R380 card, validated by Blackmagic Design

[Jon Schilling]

Petros,

I’m sorry to hear that you had a problem in the past with the STARDOM Pro Drive, is a well built product that has a standard 2 year warranty.

I’m always available for contact if there’s a support question, we’ll make sure it’s handled in a timely manner. We were just trying to help by giving a viable alternative to your question.

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
http://www.stardom-usa.com

[Jon Schilling]

Petros,

Taking mini-SAS to eSATA over-complicates what you’re trying to accomplish.

Use a PCIe to eSATA card, like our SJ20-X8 card.
https://www.raidon-usa.com/stardom/SJ20_x8.html

Then connect the card to 1-4 eSATa enclosure(s) with built-in RAID 0 or 5, like the STARDOM (4 bay) SOHORAID SR4
https://www.raidon-usa.com/stardom/sohoraid_sr4_feature.html

This setup will allow you to connect up to 16 drives via a 4 port card.

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
http://www.stardom-usa.com

[Jon Schilling]

Sorry Fred, I must have missed seeing that on your initial post. If you’re talking about is 1000 Mbps Ethernet, we don’t offer that capability on that product, I just thought we’d offer an option we did have.

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
http://www.stardom-usa.com

[Jon Schilling]

On your internal Mac Pro RAID set, can I recommend this?

https://www.raidon-usa.com/stardom/pro_drive_feature.html

We offer a RAID 0 X 2 SSD or 2.5″ drives with FW 800 & USB 2.0 so the drive module can be pulled & used off-site, pretty nifty eh? We’re the only manufacturer doing this kind of thing.

We also offer a RAID 1 variation although it can’t be used in a portable off-site setting.

Either product features hardware RAID in the product.

There’s a product review over at LAFCPUG

https://www.lafcpug.org/reviews/review_Stardom_ProDrive.html

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
http://www.stardom-usa.com

[Jon Schilling]

Cameron,

I wish I could give my 2 cents on an answer, but I really don’t have much for you on your issues, except that you should contact the manufacturer of your hard drive chassis & give them a rundown on everything you did & what happened, hopefully they can help.

For future reference, before you create a RAID set, you don’t want to be mixing drives, models and capacities. You should use matched hard drives, same model, same capacity.

I wouldn’t even run mixed drives in non-RAID JBOD, (just a bunch of disks).

Good luck!

Jon Schilling
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage by RAIDON
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 626-333-7888
http://www.stardom-usa.com

[Jon Schilling]

James,

The SR5, which is a STARDOM product is not yet shipping, at least not in the US.

You’ll get better throughput than FW 800 using an ExpressCard 34mm to eSATA with an SR4 with the eSATA I/O.

Anything else, please do feel free to drop us a line.

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
http://www.stardomstorage.com

[Jon Schilling]

I’m here, happy to help. You’re welcome to call us (we answer our phones) or email us.

jon@raidon-usa.com

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
http://www.stardomstorage.com