[Rainer Wirth]

Simon is right,

I’m talking about the firmware number. All the numbers in the posts before are firmware numbers,

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
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Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
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[Rainer Wirth]

No mix,

either HUA’s or HUS or Seagate, no mix,
all drives have to be the same! Same size, same brand, same serial number.
Don’t forget: Keep one spare drive just in case!

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

We use just ultrastars.
Within an array the SAS drives tend to be better, but this is just a mixture of feeling and
over the years experience. We’ve had some very good Seagate drives in the past, still working.
Hitachi was sold to WD I think, but I don’t know which part they took over, because a part of
Hitachi drives come from Toshiba now.
I would use two drives (either one or the other brand). Most of your drives are Hua – stick to them.
Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000, or Seagate Constellation, ST4000NM0033, both 4TB drives,
The 3TB are Hitachi Ultrastar A7K3000, #HUA723030ALA640, Seagate Constellation, ST3000NM0033

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Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

So my advice:

replace disc 7 for a new HUA drive, not a used bad one. The auto rebuildt should start. Finish it.
Second: Replace the HUS drive and put a new HUA in place. It should auto rebuildt.
You system should be working again.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Another big problem you’ve got is, that you mixed HUAs with HUS drives. HUA are Sata drives, HUS are SAS drives. You don’t want to mix them!

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Tolga,

if your Raid throws out a bad disc, and you just try to rebuildt it again using bad discs, then don’t wonder why your system shuts down.
You have to replace the bad discs for new ones and throw the bad discs away.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Daniel,

don’t go with Raid0. I would go with a sonnet fusion R400 USB3.0 and raid5 level.
You can put 4x4TB HD’s in the enclosure.
Another idea is to get a esata card in your computer and connect with esata.
There are lots of esata Raids on the market. (Sonnet Fusion QR f.e.)
Again, don’t go with Raid0.
The western digital raid you’ve got in mind has got just 2 HD’s inside and doesn’t provide a Raid5 protection.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

you need a UFUSOFT converter which is about 60 bucks,

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Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

interesting.
Back to Richard’s thread.
My advice:
Raid5, no partitioning, Setting of the raid for optimized read speed.

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Rainer Wirth]

I’m with you David – Fat32

cheers

Rainer

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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems