[Vincent Geijsel]

Cody,

With the WD app it is simple to set up either a RAID 0 or 1, but from what I understood it will always format as HFS+ journaled.
(problem solved though, see Alvaras’ post)

Thanks, that actually is an interesting article with the little benchmark test and all.

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Alvaras,

So I use the WD RAID manager to make a RAID 0 setup, then go to Disk Utility and simply reformat the thus created single volume as Mac OS Extended, non journaled, this should still be a striped volume?

If so this is the solution to my problem, thanks!
(although I’m not so sure anymore if I should want it non journaled, but anyway…)

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Adam,

I was expecting that part to get a bit confusing…
The MyBook Studio II is a dual drive, intended to use in a RAID setup, which is what I was trying to do in the first place. If you read through the previous posts you’ll probably get how I arrived at that point, as said I didn’t really expect it to work that way.

[Vincent Geijsel]

Jeremy, you just might be right, I’m more inclined now to leave it journaled, anyone here still in favour of non journaled though?

I’m just trying to get the best out of my system, since I was a bit surprised I was still getting those dropped frames on my brand new MacPro, this sounded like one way to increase performance. (…and yes I did try to address some of the other possible causes too)

And @ Paul, I agree, I do have another disk I plan to set up as a backup disk.

[Vincent Geijsel]

This is the error message:

Creating RAID set failed with the error:

Invalid request

I was already a bit suspicious about what DU would do, I just don’t count on it to create two partitions that exactly match each of the disks, since it starts off with interpreting both disks as one volume in the first place. (hope that makes any sense…;-)

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Jeremy,

OK, why do you think I’m better off leaving it journaled?

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Cody, thanks for the quick response.

I followed the instructions, (except of course I selected the non journaled option) and managed to reformat the drives as one volume, but since in Disk Utility ‘Partition’ is a separate section from ‘RAID’ how can I be sure this actually will function as a striped RAID set? also this way I cannot set the RAID block size.

I tried another way: first I made two partitions, then switched over to the RAID tab dragged both volumes into the list but I got an error message after clicking the ‘create’ button.

[Vincent Geijsel]

Thanks Walter,

I see my reply to Richards post didn’t get through… (yet?)
I think I did get the settings right before, upgrading from FCP 5.0 to 5.0.4 solved the problem.

I seem to get realtime audio playback at 32 khz just fine, it just took me a while to figure how to set it. (in both the sequence and capture settings panes)
Anyway I’ll just have to live with that 32 khz audio, that’s how it was delivered to me…

Will look into those tutorials, thanks a lot!