NAS with RAID set up

I want to set up a NAS with RAID option. I have my imac (with leopard) and couple of PCs (vista) at home. I also have an xbox which i use media player (sorry no apple TV) for photos etc. Do you have any suggestion which is the best option that with support both PC and Mac. I would also like to use my NAS as my itune server and store my other media file.
I am not a digitally savvy person and am looking for a simple option.

I have been happy with the ReadyNAS line from Netgear (formerly Infrant). They have information and very active user forums where you can ask specific questions at: http://www.readynas.com

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NAS with RAID to store my photos and videos?

I have the following Apple products: iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad Mini, Apple TV, and two iPhones. I'm running OX X Mavericks. I store all my videos and photos (30k +) on a 1TB external hard drive. I back up that drive and the iMac and MacBook drives to TimeMachine 2TB external drive. Need a more secure system for backup and redundancy.
I'm a marketing guy, not a tech guy, but I know enough to know that I'm playing with fire the way I have it set up now. It's too much for the cloud and the cloud makes me very paranoid anyway.
So I'm thinking of buying a Synology DS412 NAS with 4 separate WD Red 4TB NAS Interal Hard Drives and setting up a RAID system. I'd still use the 2TB drive as an external backup once a month and store it someplace other than my house. (until I have more than 2TB worth of stuff, and then I'd have to get a bigger drive). Or should I just buy 5 internal HD and swap out one of them every month and keep that one in a separate location?
Does this make sense?

See Here for iPhoto...
iPhoto: How to move the Library to an EHD
Make sure that the EXT Drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

Problem with raid set on xserve

Hi to all!
I hope you can help me with a big problem that I have with a Xserve of the work.
Yesterday afternoon I come to the work and my partners mentioned to me that the web pages were not going. I tried to connect with ARD but he was not answering. I had to move to the building where the server is racked and when I connected a monitor a it was showing me a folder icon with an interrogation icon.
Since this had happened to me in my Mac of the office once, I initiated from the installation DVD to see if I could repair permissions and/or the discs with the Disk Utility. For my surprise (and terror) does not show any volume or disk except the DVD.
I got into the RAID Utility in the menu and there I could see the discs but the RAID Sets does not appear... We had mounted since we install the machine a raid 5 with 3 discs and 2 volumes on this raid set.
Then, from the Terminal, doing "diskutil list" it's show no volume on any disk.
I suppose that something has happened with the volumes and the raid cannot be mounted...
Is there any way to mount the volumes again? Something similar to the "fixmbr" that I believe that there are in others OS to restore the volumes tables...
Is there any way to mount again the RAID without losing the information from the discs?
Do you know that can be happening?
PS: It is a Xserve of the last ones, with Mac OS X 10.6.8. I have already tried to reset the PRAM and it keeps on doing the same.

The Server Monitr does say anything. It doesnt pick up any server. I tried to add the XServe in the Server Monitor, but it keeps waiting for a reply after I have put in the username, password and IP address.
It is an XServe with a Mirror software RAID on the 2 x Internal Hard Drives within the XServe
I am not using the SAN software
There have been reports of fault latchs on the Apple Drive Bay Modules. Do you think this could be causing the units to dismount?

Upgrading Xserve with RAID set

Hi,
I have been asked to upgrade a copy of Server 10.3 to 10.4. I don't like upgrading, so will do a clean install and then restore all of the SA and WGM data back into the server. Here is the question:
The XServe has 3 bays - bay 1 has the startup disk and bay 2 and 3 have a mirrored RAID set. Is the RAID config data held in the OS, so if I reinstall the system will the configuration data for the RAID set be lost and will I have to re-RAID the server? Or is the config data stored on the drive and so a re-install won't affect the RAID set?
Many thanks,
JS
iMac G5 17" 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G5 17" 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9)
iMac G5 17" 2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 600 GB HDD Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I would like to know if the RAID 'config' data is
actually written onto the drive or is stored in the
OS. I first thought it would be stored in software
because Disk Utility uses software RAID, but then
again a single drive has the partition data on the
drive.
James,
If you think about it a bit, software RAID information has to be on the drive because the volume becomes a RAID before a filesystem is created and before an install is done. Likewise, a hardware raid is done on the interface card and comes up the same way. Neither can know which of the members of the mirror are available at first boot; otherwise, there would be a single point of failure during boot, and the whole purpose of a RAID 1 mirror would be lost.
The bootstrap starts on the mirror primary, then, as the driver is brought online and before any writes are done, the driver collects the members of the RAID 1 mirror set and forms the mirror. If the mirror primary isn't available, then the mirror secondary is used (which has an exact copy except for stuff indicating that it is the secondary). All this happens normally during boot, as if from a single non-RAID drive, until the cutover is made to RAID early in the driver intialization.
That's why booting from a RAID 0 (stripe) is so hard - all of the data is not present on a single drive. It can be done, but it is hard and requires special care during the boot.
You really do want to make the upgrade to AppleRAID 2 before spending time on the update, though. There are details in this article on afp548.com:
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=AppleRAID2-in-Depth
Russ
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For the life of me I CAN NOT GET WIN7 TO BOOT WITH RAID SET UP (S20 THINKSTATION)

I've felt like setting up RAID 5 on D10 was much easier, so I've done this before. However I have not set this up on a Win7 machine on D20 or S20.
I have an image of win7 I have to use.
I start with 3 clean disc all the same. I set up raid in bios. I use CTRL+M to set up RAID array.
I load my image onto the RAID array.
When it starts to boot it crapps out at the "Starting Windows" splash screen.
I tried altering my image by making sure I had the Lenovo driver loaded that contain ICH10R driver. Still same thing.
Please Help!!!!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Yep. That was the issue and what was causing the startup to BSOD.
Just needed to tell windows to load the RAID drivers when booting. Found instructions that worked for me on another site. Instructions below to "REGEDIT"
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Press [Win] + R or take the RUN option from the start menu.
Now type regedit there and press Enter Key to open up the Registry Editor Window.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor
For each location above: In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0 [3 is default], and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
Restart your computer
Go to UEFI/BIOS and enable RAID, Save & Reboot

785GTM-E45 SATAs Not Detected with RAID Set to AHCI

I have a Seagate 640GB on SATA 1 and a WD 250GB on SATA 2. These are detected and show in BIOS when RAID is set at IDE. Disappear when I set to AHCI.
Is this a defective board? Or, is there a compatability issue? I am used to Award BIOS, that has selection of AHCI under SATA mode, rather than being under the RAID options. Wondering if they vanish, because it wants matched size for RAID?
Any info would be a big help, as I don't want to blow away my AHCI drivers on the OS that have AHCI from my previous 780G board.

It is in the Basic Features Screen. SATA drives show undetected here, when AHCI is selected.
Funny and sad, that the manual's BIOS pages skip over this whole area and goes to the Cell portion. But, I think I figured out, that though it is not mentioned anywhere, that it appears that the SATA drive area under basic features, is only IDE devices.
Under Advanced Features and Boot Sequence, I found that the drives showed up and could be selected.

Ideal backup for 2 macs? How to integrate a NAS with AEBS?

Hello together,
I do have the following setup at home: a Mac Mini to serve my music, pictures and stuff and an MacBook Air for the rest. All that is connected with an AirPort Extreme.
So far things were good: I had an external drive that I used with TimeMachine to backup to the external drive of the MacMini (which had two partitions). Now the drive broke down and I'm thinking of a way to accomplish backup in future.
My options are:
- Buy an external drive and connect it to the Mac Mini: I would prefer to not do that. The external drive just broke and I don't want to go through that again. Also, in this case the backup from the MacBook Air only works if the Mac Mini is on.
- Buy an external drive and connect it to the AEBS via USB: Nice, I can backup whenever I want. Still the issue of a single drive that could break down any time
- Buy a NAS with a raid 1 or 5 and have it in the network: Love the idea of a NAS with RAID. But not sure if NAS is supported by TimeMachine (is that one resolved? Not keen on spending a lot of money to have an "unsupported" solution in the end)
- Buy a NAS with RAID and have it connected as USB drive to my AEBS (is this solution "more supported" than the pure NAS solution? (I tried to connect a drive to the AEBS and it showed up with no extra tricks performed in the Mac Mini as a "supported" drive in the TimeMachine preferences.
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Rebuilding RAID set takes 2 hrs?

Don't know if this is the right place for my post ...
I have a 160gb Raid set (mirrored, 2 disk 160gb each), automatic rebuild). One disk failed, showing degraded in Disk Utility. After replacing the failed HD with a new one disk utility started to rebuild but it took 2hrs...... Is this normal.
I don't have any experience with RAID set and was wondering if this was normal.
Thanks
F
10.5.1
Powermac G5.
2 160GB external HD mounted as RAID mirrored (Mac OS X journaled extented)

Yes, that's normal -or, at least, not unusual.

Repairing RAID set takes a long time?

I have a 160gb Raid set (mirrored, 2 disk 160gb each), automatic rebuild). One disk failed, showing degraded in Disk Utility. After replacing the failed HD with a new one disk utility started to rebuild but it took 2hrs...... Is this normal.
I don't have any experience with RAID set and was wondering if this was normal.
Thanks
F
10.5.1
Powermac G5.
2 160GB external HD mounted as RAID mirrored (Mac OS X journaled extented)

Yes, It has to copy the entire master disk to the new slave disk plus keeping track of all changes to the master disk at the same time. It will go faster if no applications are running during the copy.

DKA790GX Platinum, Unable to delete Raid set.

Back in mid February I wrote in with an issue regarding side port memory, this problem evolved to where the system would shut down even whilst in Bios. I used your wonderful flash utility to update the Bios from 1.1 to 1.3 and finally to 1.6 with no improvement, thanks again to Bas and Walker X for their kind input.
The board was returned and six weeks later a replacement arrived, this new board is now up and running with a fresh installation of XP pro and latest drivers from MSI.
The problem I have now, two of the samsung drives were setup as Raid 0 on the old board, when connected to the new board, bios changed to accommodate, from boot the drives are scanned and reported as ID 01 Mode 2+0 Raid 0 LD Size 639.99 Track-Mapping 65535/255/63 Functional. when I press Ctrl F to enter fast build utility, I am taken to the Bios setup screen? and not fast build.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I would like to format these drives for re use, can I do this in windows or must I delete Raid set first via fast build utility?
The fresh installation drive is disconnected during the above process.
System spec.
DKA790GX Platinum with 1.6 Bios chip.
AMD Athlon X2 7750BE Retail.
Crucial 2x2GB DDR PC2-8500.
3X Samsung F1 SATA 11 320GB Drives.
Jeantech Orchid 500Watt PSU

Thanks Svet for your fast responce, please excuse my lack of knowledge on Raid, the above was the first Raid set ever configured.
With Raid set to IDE in Bios, this shows as one drive (E) in my computer, do I format this?

This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

As stated above. I get this when I try to resize my HD. Was having issues with BootCamp so I removed it and got this.
This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition. If you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk.

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Creating a mirrored raid set with a hard drive that already has data on it.

I have a hard drive that I keep my photos on, and want to create a mirrored raid set that includes this drive, with its data, and another drive. How can I do this without erasing the drive with my photos on them? I am running 10.7.5 if that matters.
Thanks for any help.

Creating a Mirrored RAID reformats the drive and loads a substantial RAID driver and some tables onto it. When completed, the drive is inherently a member of a RAID set, and will continue to be so even if moved to another Mac.
because of this, you cannot create a RAID directly on a standard drive that contains data already in any reasonable, risk-free way.
To amplify what The Hatter has said above, Mirrored RAID is not Backup. Mirrored RAID only increases mean time to repair to keep a drive failure from becoming a Data Disaster. You still need a Backup. Mirrored RAID does not protect you from deletions from user error, crazy software, or "just because".
I run a mirrored RAID in my Home Server, which contains all the Users files for everyone in the Household. And I also recognize (after being burned by it) that Mirrored RAID is helpful, but not a sufficient Backup by itself. I back up the Users Drive automatically to an External drive using Time Machine. [So what I am advising is not just theoretical, I am living what I am advising.]
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Macbook Pro with Dual hard drives. Scratch Disk, Memory 64bit, Raid, Set Up Questions.

Hello, this is my first post.
I just upgraded from the original 2006 17" Macbook Pro to a refurbished 13" Macbook Pro 2.53GHZ 4GB Ram (2009 model).
I bought the MCE Tech Optibay and installed it (if you dont know anything about it, ask me, its amazing.) So now I have 2x 500GB 7200RPM Seagate hard drives installed.
I am running Snow Leopard, CS3, Lightroom 1.4.
I have the main hard drive set up with Snow Leopard and all the Applications. I keep all my files on external firewire 800 drives, except files I am currently working on.
The second hard drive is set up as a scratch disk for Photoshop CS3 and that is it.
I am looking to upgrade to CS5 and Lightroom 3 here within this month or so. Or if I get anxious, tomorrow, haha.
I want to know the best setup I can do with my current set up with CS3 and for my future setup with CS5.
Any info will appreciated.
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I think thats all I have on my brain right now. I may have more questions, or I can guarantee I will have more later.
Thanks alot.

First the scratch. Like you said, most everyone has a different take on scratch discs but I'd guess you're wasting one heck of a lot of hard drive space using all 500 GB for Scratch, did I read that right? If I did read it correctly YES, partition it and get some use out of it!!
I've got a unibody MBP 2.93GHz, OS 10.5.8, CS3 & PS 5 (running in 32bit mode), and 8 gigs of ram. I've partitioned the one 300 GB drive so 50GB is scratch, the other partition is for OS, & Apps, and documents (images).
I use LR 2 first than export to PS 5 to finish up. My photos get to be 300MB to 500MB in size and both versions of PS work on this setup just fine. Using PS 5 in 64 bit mode is faster opening files but NON of my plugin's are 64 bit yet, that's why I'm still stuck in 32 bit mode.
Not knowing what size or kind of files you work on makes giving advice a bit tough but try setting the status indicator (don't know the right name for it) in the bottom left corner of any PS open file to "Efficiency" and watch what happens when you process your files. I rarely see mine drop below 90%, I've got the usable RAM in PS Prefs set to it's max suggested, cut way back on History and Cache.
Can't wait for NIK and others to offer their plugin in 64 bit, later this year is what I was told.
There used to be an old "rule of thumb" with old version of PS about Scratch disc size. I don't remember exactly but it may have been 3 to 5 times the size of your biggest file??
Good luck, Alan

Problem Rebuilding RAID set with 10.5?

I have 1 RAID set (mirrored with autorebuild) composed of 2 (identical) HD. I got a message in 10.5 Disk Utility that one disk had failed and that the set was degraded.
I replaced the drive and I am getting an error message during the rebuild "Unrecognized filesystem".
I can still see and access my RAID set (1 slice still ok) so minimal damage here but I don't understand why I am getting this error message when trying to rebuild.
Any idea?
Thanks
setup:
-mirrored raid set
- autorebuild selected
- 2 slices (160Gb, GUI, OS journaled ext)

Hi VK2CPJ,
Today ( I slept on this idea was exhausted from previous day) tried on two blank eide drives in a raid box, no raid built just two independent drives, one set for master the other slave. A couple of observations:
I did not raid because I want one small partition to contain a Leopard boot install from the DVD. The message I received from disk utility was that if I restore that DVD my raid may be unusable(if I did raid). So I did not raid the drives but let them stand as master and slave. I wanted to do a APM on the small "boot" partition to see if my intel and PPC Mac would in fact boot from that restored Leopard DVD boot partition. I used start up pane on both PPC and intel and they would not boot up from that Leopard partition even though the start up pane showed the disk as a startup device. Using the option key booted both Macs. Now I'm not sure if doing this was to procedure because the Apple docs says to use a PPC Mac to do this process. Which I have a difficult time to understand. I'm assuming that the doc says that because APM would be default and assisting the user not to make any option mistake. So currently I'm trying this same procedure using a PPC Mac to test out whether start up pane will boot both Macs. I don't think it will but do think using option within the start up manager will work. If so then does this mean imply that the start up pane has a bug or that user does not require a PPC Mac to do the setup process. Let you know shortly.

How do I remove one failing hard drive from raid set and replace with new one

Last Friday apparently one of my raid drives started failing.
As I mentioned on this forum I started getting continous beeping.
I was finally able to get the raid working at a degraded level. I ordered a replacement hard drive which is arriving today.
(In the meantime I made twice daily backups of my work.....)
Below was the message I got from the browser based raid software:
Blahblah 09    1000.2GB   RaidSet Member SamSung HD103SJ
Blahblah 10    1000.2GB     Free                 SamSung HD103SJ
Blahblah 11    1000.2GB   RaidSet Member SamSung HD103SJ
Blahblah 12    1000.2GB   RaidSet Member SamSung HD103SJ
(See this earlier thread if you wish!)
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/727867?tstart=0
At one point when I did the checked the browser interface I saw the message Failed and Degraded
As I said, I was able to work over the weekend on the degraded system.
This morning I got the beeping again and did the rescue and now I am running a "full raid" without the notice that one raid was "Free".
In any case, the new hard drive is arriving today.
What steps should I take to incorporate the new drive into the raid system.
I have one OS drive
and 4 tb raid drives.   One needs to be replaced with the new one that I am getting today.
Thanks
Rowby

Harm,
Regarding your comment:
Re: How do I remove one failing hard drive from raid set and replace with new one
Please tell me how to read the serial number from an individual drive rather easily, without un-installing them:
If you select the proper drive to change out, you only need to remove one drive and look at its serial number...
Step 1: Identify bad drive serial number using Areca's tools
Step 2: Turn off the computer
Step 3: Remove what you think is the bad drive based on following your numbered cable method, marked hot-swap bays, whatever
Step 4: Verify that the serial number matches the "bad drive" serial number from step 1; if it does great, proceed; if it does not match, go back to step 3
Step 5: Change out the CORRECT drive - that's the bottom line for this whole procedure
Cheers,
Jim

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