Tyler Chittick
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OSX doesn’t do RAID4 (OSX only does RAID 0 and 1), and what you want isn’t RAID4 anyways. Are you using an internal RAID controller of any kind? If not, then your options are limited to RAID0 and 1. Also, for the most part, it is not only best practice but also mostly required to use the same capacity drives for all members of your RAID, because it almost always will limit that 4TB drive to 2TB of use because 2TB is the smallest member. Your other options are (not as good) get a RAID software of some kind and do a RAID5 with 3 2TB or 3TB drives. That will give you 4TB or 6TB usable, respectively. Or, another (better) idea is to get an internal RAID controller and do a RAID 5 with the 3 drives that way. I recommend RAID controller card. More stable.
RAID5 allows you to lose one disk and still be able to access your data, which is why even though you have 3x 2TB drive, you only have 4TB usable. It uses that third drive for parity. This is the same capacity you seem to desire, anyways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5—
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That adapter will work if you have a Thunderbolt port on your computer, which you mentioned that you do. Then, you can plug in your eSATA drive to the eSATA port on that adapter and that should work for you. That will be much faster than FW800.
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Tyler Chittick
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Generally you can’t go from something else to Thunderbolt, only from Thunderbolt to something else. Can you show me what adapter you’re looking at?
Also, RAID0 has some advantages over a single drive, notably speed and capacity. However, RAID0 has no failover at all. If one drive in your RAID0 dies, you lose all of your data. Period. Just like if you have a single drive. If this is just a working drive and you store your data somewhere else and back up your RAID0 regularly (as in multiple times a day) you’re fine.
As for the original question, either USB3 or eSATA will be much faster than FW800. FW800 theoretical max is 800Mb/s, while USB3 is 5.0Gb/s and eSATA III is 6Gb/s.
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Tyler Chittick
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I would recommend cloning your old boot drive to whichever partition you want to use as the boot partition on your new drive. That way is a bit more surefire. There are plenty of free (or at least a free trial) utilities to use. Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to name two. I use both of those utilities regularly and they work great.
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Tyler Chittick
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You lose one disk amount of space. For example, if you have 4x3TB drives, you will have 9TB usable space. The performance of Thunderbolt is more than adequate for editing almost anything up to 4k.
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Tyler Chittick
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Well I’m partial (read: biased) to the Maxx Digital ThunderRAID Mini, but G-Tech also make a great product. You can e-mail me directly if you have any questions about that product or any other Maxx Digital products!
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Tyler Chittick
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I think the simple answer there is no. I think there are a few enclosures out there that have FW800 and USB3, but I don’t think there’s anything out with FW800 and Thunderbolt. Your best bet is probably to upgrade your RAID enclosures as you upgrade computers. New computer, new RAID. Migrate your data, good to go. If you don’t have the budget for that, $30 gets you a Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter for your new computer until you can upgrade all of your enclosures. Keep in mind, though, that adapter doesn’t go the other way.
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Tyler Chittick
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Are you using the Flash plugin? If yes, try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. If no, then try downloading an earlier version of Safari and installing that and just don’t update to 5.1.10.
https://support.apple.com/downloads/#safari
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Tyler Chittick
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Glad you solved your problem. However, I noticed that you’re using notepad. A tool that I use that can be invaluable is Notepad++. It adds quite a bit of very useful features when doing coding of any kind. I would recommend you look in to that. The best part? It’s free.
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Tyler Chittick
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If all you’re using is the one eSATA enclosure, your bottleneck will be eSATA, which, as you said, is slower than Thunderbolt anyways. It shouldn’t make too much of a difference, if any.
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Tyler Chittick
Integration & Warehouse Manager
Technical Support
Maxx Digital
http://www.maxxdigital.com
tyler@maxxdigital.com
714-374-4944