Creative COW | Seth Burke | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/sethburke/activity/ Activity feed for Seth Burke. Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:45:23 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 f38c4c3be025eb4e57178331f5528536 Seth Burke replied to the discussion Initialize a RAID drive or not? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/initialize-a-raid-drive-or-not/#post-2435862 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 03:49:26 +0000 Reply to Initialize a RAID drive or not?

It’s at 44% now, so at this rate it’s looking like maybe a 2-3 day thing, which is faster than I assumed. Would you have any tips on Raid setups for video editing? Anything I should be doing once it’s set up? I read that I should be doing a backup periodically, like maybe once every two weeks?

]]> bf816d57e84ecd30e00c16fb1e37afa9 Seth Burke started the discussion Initialize a RAID drive or not? in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/initialize-a-raid-drive-or-not/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:04:46 +0000 Initialize a RAID drive or not?

Can someone explain what an initialization of a RAID means? I just assumed it was similar as any other drive, plug it in, format it, and start working off of it. I plugged in a new Lacie 6Big 24TB Raid to use as a working hot drive. When creating the Raid, (Raid 5) it gave me the option to “Initialize the Drive”. From what I’ve been able to find…

Read more

]]>