[Matthew Welch]

Are you guys running your Xraid under 10.5? I have upgraded and have not been able to get the drives to mount, the machine crashes on mount. Works fine in 10.4. Thoughts??

[Matthew Welch]

Mine is a stand alone Xraid… 1st generation. 180 gb IDE drives.

I can not find any of the more robust “NS” IDE drives from Seagate, the best I have found is the 7200.10 series, 750gb. Any other thoughts on drives? I was sticking to these as they are the equivalent of the Apple drives, just not “blessed and flashed”.

I figure I will pull all the 180’s in one bank, carefully remove and store (after I back up the volume), then put in the 750’s and format… put it into use and see what happens???

I have seen other threads where people have done this and they state everything is running fine.

I plan to insure myself by formating 6 drives and leaving the 7th as a hot spare, so if I get a failure early on it will re-build… also plan to have a second spare on standby (not hot).

I am running Raid Admin 1.5.1, so in theory, I should not have trouble recognizing the drives.

Any other ideas / cautions / thoughts?

[Matthew Welch]

Mine is a stand alone Xraid… 1st generation. 180 gb IDE drives.

I can not find any of the more robust “NS” IDE drives from Seagate, the best I have found is the 7200.10 series, 750gb. Any other thoughts on drives? I was sticking to these as they are the equivalent of the Apple drives, just not “blessed and flashed”.

I figure I will pull all the 180’s in one bank, carefully remove and store (after I back up the volume), then put in the 750’s and format… put it into use and see what happens???

I have seen other threads where people have done this and they state everything is running fine.

I plan to insure myself by formating 6 drives and leaving the 7th as a hot spare, so if I get a failure early on it will re-build… also plan to have a second spare on standby (not hot).

I am running Raid Admin 1.5.1, so in theory, I should not have trouble recognizing the drives.

Any other ideas / cautions / thoughts?

[Matthew Welch]

Hello

So happy to have found your post.

I have Xraid 1st gen., with 14 – 180gb IDE drives

Need more space and can’t afford to upgrade to a new Xraid.

I planned to get the Seagate 750gb 7200.10 IDE drives.

Have either of you done this swap yet with Gen 1 IDE (ATA 100) drives, Not Gen 2 (ATA 133) Drives?

Would love to know what I will be sacraficing other than SMART from apple firmware… does any other info come up in the Xraid Admin? Also is there anything to know about firmware, etc. before the upgrade?

I have found the Apple Board relatively useless, so I am scouring the web as I run my own business and manage all the machines, so I need some help!!!

One idea was to swap out one bank first and run it for a while, then swap out the other 7 drives… any downside to this?

Thanks for any info before I drop cash on the drives, to find out the hard way!

Thanks again.