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William Carr
March 11, 2009 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Need Unexpected Buying Advice

Thank you David, I am better assured about RAID choices for now. RAID 5 is the gold standard, but RAID 0 with separate back-up is my affordable and productive solution right now. We will make our Mac Pro decision (hopefully to get it!) with greater confidence.
William Carr
March 11, 2009 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Need Unexpected Buying Advice

And adding to Mike’s question, do I need a RAID card too, or can the drives be software-configured?

Apple sells this card for an additional $700 with Mac Pros–

“The new Mac Pro RAID Card brings data protection with even faster performance to your Mac Pro system — up to 553MB/s of sequential read performance in RAID 0. Ideal for video and creative professionals with demanding storage needs, as well as for use as a workgroup server, the new hardware RAID option supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and Enhanced JBOD. It has 512MB of cache and an integrated 72-hour battery for protecting the RAID cache. The card occupies the top PCI Express slot (slot 4) and connects to the four internal drive bays.”
William Carr
March 11, 2009 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Need Unexpected Buying Advice

Hello Herb and Mark(s), thanks for advice about RAID 0.
I keep a 1:1 back up of each external RAID 0 unit on cheaper storage drives as a precaution so at least I wouldn’t lose acquired media. At the moment one of my G-RAID2 FW800 is making loud crunching noises even when “idle” and is running slow, this even after DiskWarrior treatments. So its failure may be around the corner.

RAID 5 in the Mac Pro would be great, but I realistically need 5TB of available content these days for current projects.

About RAM, in an older thread about the new Mac Pros, Walter Biscardi mentioned to buy at least 1GB of RAM per core, so that means I should add at least 2GB to start or as you say, max out if I can.

Here I am trying to set priorities, coming to realize every area is a priority!
William Carr
March 11, 2009 at 7:29 am in reply to: Need Unexpected Buying Advice

You give me confidence, sir. It’s true, not too long ago I couldn’t imagine I’d have the skills I do now. I guess I’m always looking ahead, wishing I knew how to do more. But enough navel-gazing.

Did you say no cables in there?!? Well, that sure makes a difference.

Plus as I checked prices for externals I see how much more dollars per TB, even adding in hot-swappable drives. Cost is also a great motivator to learn stuff real fast.

If I can load up a Mac Pro with higher capacity drives than 750 each, it could provide me a more cost effective workflow, even if I have to occasionally move media content in and out from storage drives.

Thanks again for the reality check.
William Carr
March 11, 2009 at 6:02 am in reply to: Need Unexpected Buying Advice

Thanks for the advice!

About external vs. internal drives, the main reasons for external are:

1) I’ve edited for years but never went under the hood for anything, and have no idea what plugs into what in there! And I have stubby fingers.

2) This job needs about 1TB when all is said and done, and it’s part of multiple concurrent jobs. The larger encompassing project is about 5TB of material and growing, but neatly divided into 4 different series (1 series per 1.5TB external drive ought to cover this year’s doings). When it’s time to cut an episode of one of the series I just plug in that external drive and go to work.
William Carr
March 10, 2009 at 7:38 pm in reply to: My FW 800 G-RAID2 Became Slower?

Resolution:

Thanks gentlemen for the DiskWarrior advice; I bought and ran it on all drives and it is now an important part of the editorial toolset.
William Carr
March 10, 2009 at 5:06 am in reply to: My FW 800 G-RAID2 Became Slower?

Thanks, will do it tonight.
William Carr
March 10, 2009 at 4:32 am in reply to: My FW 800 G-RAID2 Became Slower?

Thanks for advice… I should run Disk Warrior on the MBPRO system drive, or the external? I have yet to buy the app, on their website descriptions seem targeted to the internal.
William Carr
March 10, 2009 at 3:39 am in reply to: My FW 800 G-RAID2 Became Slower?

I backed up all media, then totally Erased using Disk Utility, with Mac OS Extended format. Then opened FCS and chose the freshly wiped drive as a scratch location, copied the appropriate project’s capture scratch folder into the newly created main Capture Scratch folder.

All 1,300 clips connected just fine. Project opened no problem. Only difference before and after is the clip response time dragging its heels a bit. Just enough to add precious hours to a 3-week edit!
William Carr
March 8, 2009 at 7:02 am in reply to: With free space, better performance on external drive?

Thanks, gentlemen. I will make sure all is backed up on one if not two other drives, wipe the G-RAID2 clean and initialize.

I have some new OWC 1TB and 1.5TB drives that are ready and willing to help.

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