Nick Franco
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Thanks for that
i’ll will probably look for something that has 8 drives+ need to do some Uncompressed HD. and i’ll probably go hard ware raid. i will have a look at your suggestion in more detail. but for now i’m still stuck with the sonnets.
as i said i’ll call them tomorrow
thanks again
Nick
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[JR-Links] “f you read my post carefully, Sonnet (California office) told me on july 7, 2007:
“”We started putting that sticker on the last batch of Fusion 500P’s we shipped as we were noticing problems. Shortly after that, we beefed up the power supply, changed the product SKU and started shipping everything with drives in them.” “
i’ve only just brought a new encasment D500P in the last week with no drives in it. i’ll speak to sonnet agin tomorrow.
Cna any one recommend a better low budget option than i have already? maybe i should just by the Sonnet D800 i can not spend my life trying toget one piece of equipment to work.
Thanks
Nick
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Hi Guys
i’m overwhelmed with your interest and help on this topic. With regards to the sonnet tempo e4p and the enclosures i have 2 old D500P enclosures which have worked perfectly for 16months 10 drives softraid zero, but recently they have been destroying my life.
i have bought a new D500P and it seems to work much better.
Bob
it does look like both enclosures have failed – smoke started to come out of one of them this morning so i’m still waiting for a replacement. as soon as i get it i’ll let you know.
JR Links
i have always had 10 seagate Baracudas 500gb raided zero in these cases and never had a problem till now. Is the Maxtor the only drives that have this 4-5 bay raid problem?
i’ve been speaking to sonnet and they have never mentioned this, but i guess that is because it doesn’t apply to the seagate barracudas.the problem i’ve had, and what bob has rightly said, is thet there are so many variables and i’ve not been sure whether it’s one drive thats on its way out or the card or the encasments.
so after three weeks of hell!!!!! and stress levels that turned me into a monster i hope that the replacements of the cases will resolve my issues (however there may still be another drive on its way out)
it’s a shame that i cannot put the kona test data i’ve collected into this post in the form of a graph so you could see the peaks and troughs in data throughput. i could paste the text data but it would take a lot of room.
kevin
i have to say – and you probably know – xraid hasn’t had a good rep. i’d like to invest in a fibre raid but due to lack of money i’m not in a position to do that. Also, i have heard that the xsans isn’t working well with the intel chips (but what do i know i cant even get my sonnet D500p to work).
thanks again guys
your support brings a smile to my stressed out face
Nick
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Bob
i will take them up on their offer with the encasment and i’ll get back to you with the results. i hate flying by the seat of my pants when a job comes in. it’s not fun with deadlines.
the company i deal with are helpful and will take my calls, but i’m only a small fish in a big pond.
Kevin
thanks, i hear what you say about sonnet, i only wish i was in a position where i could justify the spend on an xsans, but i hear they come with their own inherent problems.
Thanks guys i’ll keep you posted
Nick
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Hi bob
thank you so much for you support. i’ve had a horriffic couple of weeks. i did as you asked and eventualy i found one of the drives had gone. eventualy the SMART test failed. the aja system test resulsts are still not favourable, so i suspect that there is an other drive on it’s way out. Sonnet have been great they have offered to replace bothe encasments.
i have not taken them up on there offer as i’m still not sure that it’e the actual encasements are at fault. i am not the most patient person to do this type of thing and unfortunatly i cant find anyone like you in the uk that can resoleve this kind of thing or i would have paid them to fix it a week ago.
it’s really difficult here as the company’s i deal with only support hardare fibre raids and my budget is tight to say the least. if it wasn’t for people like you i woyuld have thrown my hole system out of the window years ago and i’d have got an office clerks job.
it is still possible that there is a defective encasment so i may still try to get them swapped over.
thanks again for your help.
Nick
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Hi Bob
ok i think i’ve done what you have asked with some strainge results.
to recap
you asked me to rad two drives and then the remaining three in Enclosure A then to do the same in enclosure B
i have now done this and am able to play back DVCPRO HD and 10 bit Uncompressed SD on all of them.
however i also raided 5 drives together in encasment A and run an old project on DVCPRO HD 720p24 and it dropped frames i took the same raid set and put it in enclosure B and the project played back fine.
i then put the raid set back into enclosure A and the project played back fine when previously it didn’t
this is starting to drive me crazy
i’ll have a new E4P card in the next couple of hours and i’ll try that i will also have a deck tomorrow so i’ll try and edit to tape (where the problem usualy happens.
i hope i’ve followed you instructions properly
Nick
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Hi Bob
sorry i did’t get back to you last night had to sleep i’m in the UKSonnet tempo e4p card in slot 4 (x4); AJA Kona in slot 3 (x4x8); Graphics card in slot 1 (x16); expansion slot utility is configured correctly.
I’m just about to try your raid configurations and i will get back to you with the results. at pressent they 5 drives raded together in enclosure a doesn’t play bach DVCPRO HD footage.
thanks
Nick
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i’m sorry szumlins
i’ve been having a really bad week and the worst it get the mor iratic my typing and reading. please forgive me. i really appreciat the help
Nick
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Hi Bob
i’ve tried all 4 ports with the enclosure and they all work, which is strange as when i tried it the 1st time the 4th port didin’t work.
i have a new sata cable i can try. i’ll give it a go
Nick