Local raid storage: G-Speed, CalDigit, etc?

Hello, looking for some storage recommendations. I'm going to be cutting a low-budget feature in the next couple of months. The footage will be coming off a 7D so I'll be looking for a raid solution, Raid 5 perhaps? I'll be cutting on an Imac and Macbook Pro (I know, I know...), so currently the best connection will be Firewire800. Although, I'd like to keep an eSATA port on board for future uses. I was thinking of the G-Speed Q, 4TB as it can do Raid 5, with the internal controller. Any other companies I should be looking at, specific drives?
Thanks!

Hi -
Within your budget, you could buy two of these, run them in raid 0 and keep one as cloned backup of your source material in case of drive corruption or failure.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/659809-REG/CalDigit720504_4TB_VR_ExternalHard.html
MtD

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I'm trying to get some opinions about the Pegasus RAID Storage with Thunderbolt
http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192&region=en-global&rsn1=40&r sn3=47
since I've been researching some info for a friend who is looking for extremely reilable local storage solution for his record label.
Does anyone here use this? If so, do you use it with Time Machine? And also what type of RAID setup did you use?
I was thinking of a RAID 5 setup, since I feel that would be best in the long run should any drives fail, the backed up data would still be available on the other drives even if the performane is a bit slower until the failed drive is replaced. I would like to hear about people's experience with these drives and RAID setups. Also if anyone might want to suggest other disk options, please feel free to mention them here.
This would mostly be for "Setup 1" which is mostly audio production dedicated.
There is also a need for a "Setup 2" which would be mostly business/document dedicated.
Would it be better to get another smaller local back up solution for Setup 2?
We're not too keen on using Time Capsule for Setup 2 as their long term performance does have a great track record.
We're also going to be using Carbonite to have an offsite/remote backup of everything we have locally, but I'm not too familar with their services as well and if anyone here can comment on that I would apprecaite it. I've read up a bit on them and I would think to probably use their Business level service.
Any help, advice, opinions are welcome and appreacaited!
Thanks!

You can (re-)install to the Pegasus raid and boot from it.
However, you'll actually get a faster system if you use an SSD for the system drive and then just use the Pegasus for data files (and Time Machine backups of the SSD ...).
In any case:
Be sure to use the Promise Utility (download it from their site) to configure the RAID level etc if you don't want the default RAID 5 configuration. (For me I prefer RAID 6 if there are more than 4 drives, RAID 1 for 2 drives and RAID 10 for 4 drives – RAID 5 is just too risky; even configured with a spare).
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I just updated my iPhone 4 to iOS6. In the process, I ran into a problem and had to restore factory settings. After syncing the phone, I see that 218 apps need to be updated. When selecting "update all," it says "manage local device storage usage." How?

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How can this be the case when I haven't changed any apps from before updrading to iOS6, and I don't have any music yet on the phone? Why is it telling me there is not enough local space?

Hi RileyAvaCadenRiver,
If you recently updated your iPhone to iOS7, you will need to update iTunes on your computer to iTunes 11.1 or newer for it to correctly recognize the iPhone. You may find the following link helpful:
Apple: iTunes 11.1.1
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1614
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We're buying a new Unix platform for out Oracle server. The CS group is inclined to house our DB files on networked disks (using NFS) as opposed to local RAID arrays.
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The storage you purchased is in the cloud, and doesn't do anything with your pad. Your problem is simply that you have too much content on your pad. Go to settings, general, usage, and it will show you how much space you have avaliable on your pad. If you let the screen sit for a while, all the apps will be displayed, and you can see how much stuff you have associated with each.
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Or do I have to use the eSata card for raid storage?
I need the real estate on the big screen to get things done, but I also would like to have the Thunderbolt raid storage.
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So yours is an Early 2011 MBP then http://support.apple.com/kb/SP621
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Flash Players before 11.3.300.257 had different behavior that was more reliable: placing "Dictionary" object to the local storage allowed reading it as "Dictionary". Like placing "Array" resulted to reading "Array" from shared object.
With Player 11.3 it doesn't work anymore. Reading a property that was placed as "Dictionary" results to plain "Object" read. Any code like "var a:Dictionary = sharedObj.myDictionary as Dictionary;" returns "null". This is very annoying bug that resulted to our application not working for 2 days until we found the reason. I regret Adobe doesn't admit this a bug.
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Go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage and check to see how much storage you have used.
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Try quitting the camera app completely and restart the iPad. See if the message goes away.
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TS130-11051CU Raid Storage Console

Anyone have any idea what Windows RAID Storage Console I can use to monitor within Windows 2008R2 Foundation? I have it all configured during bootup just fine, but would like to be able to monitor from with Windows. Especially helpful for Remote Administration...
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thanx for getting back to me.
Sorry, it is for the onboard Intel. I tried various versions of the RST (Rapid Storage Technology) and finally found this one here worked.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS013896
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Anyone care to recommend the best RAID storage systems for iMac, greater than 1TB? I read a review in MacWorld on the LaCie, but it is only RAID 0 and therefore not great for LT storage of prized and growing digital content libraries. I am thinking RAID 5 with data striping. I am new to the Mac world and would really welcome this forum input.
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I have three hard drives of equal size (300 GBs in my case.) Two drives are configured as a mirrored RAID (RAID 1) and acts as the permanent backup of the other. This setup provides redundant backup for safety. I use a backup utility to create and maintain a clone of the main drive to the backup RAID doing scheduled backups on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule. Here are some recommendations for backup software:
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
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5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
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Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
As far as creating a RAID is concerned a striped RAID (RAID 0) is similar to RAID 5 except it lacks the distributed parity. The OS X built-in RAID software can create RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 arrays.
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RAID / Storage Rebuild... requesting clarifications for all ;)

Hello All,
I'm replacing the 2 Seagate HDDs out of my home video editing system (CS5) that was previously configured as below, and think its a good time to get clarification on some items I never really resolved after many hours of research, to include where the different items should be installed/stored on a six-HDD system, and/or whether someone in my situation should completely re-think the system setup.
It was in the following configuration not out of original intention, but due to adding HDDs over time...
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Was Vista, ordering Windows 7 Pro
1) Assuming the hardware remains 6 x 7200RPM HDDs on a P6T Deluxe V2 (sort of want to stay on it, since just got an expensive lga1366 cpu), which only has 6 SATA ports available...
a) Am I even correct that the best editing configuration for six HDDs is 3 x RAID0 arrays?
b) If so, how should I distribute the following items across the 3 arrays - OS, Programs, Adobe Projects, Scratch, Outputs, Original Media? I could never figure out from forums which items are the most important to separate from each other on different discs.
2) Or should I really be modifying the system to allow more than the 6 HDDs at this point?
a) Now for the really nebulous question... if I need to change, should this be an internal RAID controller card with more ports, or does it need to be an external setup?
If I really need expanded equipment, I'm ok with things like buying "faster" HDDs (10k or whatever) to replace the 2 Seagates if that's a strong recommendation, spending a bit on better RAID equipment if it is actually worthwhile, but...
1. Can't spend a thousand to only slightly improve it
2. Need a setup that someone of moderate computer skill and experience can setup and maintain.
In particular, the question of how to distribute the various items/ tasks across existing discs is likely of interest to many readers. This is talked about a lot, but I'm really unclear on how best to distribute them and in what priority if you don't have separate arrays for every item/task.
Thanks to anyone interested!
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Information received and agreed. That's exactly the simple breakdown I've needed to know for years. I assume the 1TB on C: & F: is not a mandate, but based on already having 1TB HDDs on-hand (and also assuming it should be large enough to keep the disc usage % low)?
Unless I'm advised otherwise, I suppose I'll just get the "fastest" large capacity non-ssd HDD's I can (maybe velociraptor 600gb?) for the non-RAID single discs then (C: & F: drives), since I want to replace the two seagate HDDs anyway. I guess both seek/read time and not just throughput/write stats are relevant for the C: OS drive, if not so much for the export F: drive. For that matter, guess I could just SSD the C: drive, and Velociraptor (or something with more capacity) the F: drive.
Many Thanks!
P.S.: Assumed the matrix partition wasn't a good idea... a hold-over from when I only had 2HDDs and was guessing my way along.

Familar with Dulce Systems Pro FC fibre channel raid storage?

I am looking for a good big storage that can use with 3 computers same time similar to Dulce Systems Pro FC. Have you use it or other product similar to this? I have so many external hard drives. I have to move those to other computer many times. I want to avoid those and saw Dulce systems. I think that it is cool system. Plese share your experience with it along with FCP and DVD SP. Before I make decision to buy one or not. Thanks.

You've a lot of assumptions there that aren't quite right. It doesn't matter if the source and transcoded material is on the same drive per se, but the transcode might go faster if they are not on the same drives. But there's no gotchas there in any event.
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