Setting Internal Drives RAIDED as a networked volume?

Okay, first of all, I'm a video guy, not IT...so please bear with me!
I just purchased an Intel XServe (4 gigs RAM, running 10.5.4) primarily as a metadata server for MetaSAN that runs our XRaid. I have used the XServe 80 gig drive as an OS & Apps disk. I also got 2 x 1TB drives internal and RAIDED these via Disk Utility to mirrored, so now it is 1 volume around 1TB.
So...what I really want, is to have my 3 edit suite computers see the RAIDED volume only. When I networked to the server, it only shows the main OS disk and I cannot mount the RAIDED disk volume.
Is this normal? Is what I'm doing a wrong way to do this?
Thanks a bunch for any help you can provide.

Hi Kevin,
When trying to connect to the RAID from the client (edit suite) how do you do it? How are the clients connecting to the server (fibre, ethernet)?
You'll need to go into Server Admin, and make sure that you highlight the Drive you want to share, and click on the Share button (i think it might be a right click job, can't remember fully). You should then be able to see drive on the clients.
Let us know how this goes.
Cheers,
Dan

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There are many 3rd party controllers that support the internal HDs if an internal iPass connector is used. The problem is that some are bootable but most are not.
The Areca ARC-1680ix-12 and the HighPoint RocketRAID 4320 are bootable. However, the system cannot be installed via the Apple DVD. Instead the user needs to clone a boot drive with the proper drivers to the boot volume on the controller and then boot from the 3rd party controller.
The other issue I found is that these controllers do not support Boot Camp. If Boot Camp is desired, my recommendation would be to leave the internal HDs on the Mac Pro internal bus intact and use the 3rd party controller for external storage. This method provides four internal bays that are bootable, support Boot Camp and can be used for system backups. I use the 3rd party controller for external storage for large RAID sets and hot swapping hard disks.
With the internal bays intact and external hot swap RAID storage available the user can support Boot Camp, multiple system volumes and large external RAID sets. From my experience using a 3rd party controller with the internal HD bays always has some limitations. The user usually does not realize it unit later when Boot Camp does not work or the computer fails on a system upgrade or the controller does not work at all with a new version of Mac OS X.
Staying with the standard internal Mac Pro bay configuration will be the best configuration to avoid compatibility issues with future versions of Mac OS X. It is rumored that the new Snow Leopard may require 64-bit drivers. If that is the case, I would expect most if not all existing 3rd party controller drivers to fail. Some drivers will be upgraded after a few months while others may not. Having the internal Mac Pro SATA controller intact should at least allow the Mac Pro to boot if my guess about compatibility issues is correct.
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http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/5pm/
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http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/datoptic/pcie8/
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hello everyone,
I am looking to add a second system drive for more hd space. I was planning on purchasing a second Raptor and setting up a RAID 0. will I need to format my existing drive, or can I just plug in the new drive and set up my RAID in DU?
...any feedback appreciated, thanks.
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Ok,
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To create a RAID O, you must match the two drives exactly. Erase w/Zero both of them, create the RAID O set in Disk utility and clone your boot drive back from a booted external drive using cloning software. (meaning you have to first clone the original to a external then boot from it and clone to the RAID O)
Problem: Western Digital has updated all their drives with a new SATA spec, also increased the cache to 16 MB. The PowerMac's can't handle the new SATA spec (supposedly the Quad can, but I'm hearing mixed stories)
So unless you find a 8MB cache Raptor, your going to need to spend more money.
The solution if your determined to have RAID O Raptors, is to buy two of them, preferably the new 10,000 RPM 16MB cache 150GB ones, and a Firmteck SATA PCI card (the only one that's bootable off of) with 4 internal SATA ports and 4 external ports. Then hook the internal Raptors to that.
The Firmteck card will also give you the option of hooking up external SATA drives in a powered enclosure, one cable to each drive. So you can expand if you wish.
With a RAID O, you must clone (for a whole boot drive) or backup (for files) quite regularly, like at least once a week for clone and daily backup for files. Since one should be doing this anyway, it's really no big deal. Because like the other poster said, RAID O is a bit more risky, one drive goes you lose all data as the data path is split. But the speed is worth it. So with a pair of 150GB Raptors your going to need a 250-300GB drive external Firewire 800/400 drive.
Now to keep a drives performance up, you shouldn't fill it more than 50%, and certainly shouldn't fill a boot drive more than 80%. So one can use a 250GB external drive for clone backup as long as the data on the 300GB RAID O doesn't go over around 240GB. (80%) Get it?
LaCie makes a good Firewire 800/400/USB d2 drive.
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What this will do is optimize the Raptor boot drive drive, free up disk space, de-fragment large files/apps and sort of tighten everything up to the most fastest part of your boot drive, the outer tracks, in the good part of the 50% side of your drive. (vs the inner tracks where performance starts to suffer)
Without the space hogging files that are now on the second SATA drive, your drive freshly optimized, the arm in the hard drive has less space to travel to get your data that Mac OS X, apps and random music files iTunes needs to constantly access.
Now I suggest using Carbon Copy Cloner to do your optimizations with, because I know how this program clones drives, in alphabetical order on the main directory of your boot drive. So Applications, Developer (if you have installed Developers Tools from Tiger install disk) Library, System and finally Users at the end (where it could expand without de-optimizing your drive)
Always follow these rules when cloning.
1: Don't run or do anything else while a cloning process is going on.
2: Always Disk utility Erase w/Zero option all new drives one time or in the case of a security issue.
3: Option boot from the clone and check it out.
4: Repair permissions BEFORE and AFTER each cloning.
5: Avoid partial clones because of copy protection schemes hiding files on the drive.
6: Avoid cloning to partitions, especially on the same drive, because if the drive fails mechanically your screwed out of your clone as well. Keep it a boot clone to a boot clone on a separate drive.
7: If you can keep two clones of your boot drive, just in case you get hacked or have a exploit, because when you hook up the second clone, it will get owned too and possibly erased. If this happens, C boot off the installer disk (write protected) and Erase w/Zero all infected drives and disconnect from the internet/network before hooking up that last clone.
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I have an iMac with 2 internal drives and a multiple user account set-up. Hw do I create a path to store data files on the second drive within an application?

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I have read through a lot of information on disk usage, storage rules for an editing rig, users inquiries/member responses in this forum and I thank each and every one of you – especially Harm.
In building my new workstation, I purchased five (5) WD 1T, 7k, 64M SATAIII hard drives and an Areca RAID card, ARC-1880ix-16-4G, which I plan to use primarily as my media/data disk array. The workstation will use a 128GB SATAIII SSD as the OS/program drive and I will transfer two (2) WD Raptor/10k SATA 70GB drives from my current system for pagefile/scratch/render use. I tentatively plan on using a mobo SATAIII port for the SSD and mobo SATA ports with a software RAID (level 0) for the 10k Raptors.
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In line with the logic that one doesn’t want to perform disk reading while trying to write at the same time (or vice-versa), I am thinking the approach above should work OK in using the mobo disk interface and both software and external hardware RAID controllers without having to create separate RAID level configurations within a Volume Set or further dividing up the physical drives into separate RAID sets. I know in forum messages that Harm noted that he had 17 drives and I could envision a benefit to having separate RAID sets in that situation, but I am not at that point yet.
To some degree I think it might be best to just create one RAID Level on one Volume Set on one RAID Set, but want to solicit thoughts from veteran controller users on their workflows/thoughts in these regards.
Anyone care to share thoughts/perspectives? Thanks
Bill

Thanks for the speedy feedback Harm - I appreciate it.
I was thinking RAID level 3 as well.
Of course, it's always something! I purchased the Caviar Blacks by mistake - which are non-TLER. I will work with EggHead to return the ones I purchased and replace them with RE4 versions as I'm not thrilled about the possibility of the controller declaring the volume/disks degraded unnecessarily and although I have the DOS utility WDTLER where one is supposed to be able to enable/disable TLER on WD drives - I suspect WD is way beyond that now anyway with current builds.
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Thanks again....off to EggHead!

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Would these two drive have to be configured outside of the computer in external enclosure and then one transplanted into the mac mini, or will the operating system allow this to be set up between the two drive?

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I can not connect to the internet at all any more. I know that my hardware is fine, as I can boot into a Tiger partition and connect just fine.
1) I really don't want to re-install my OS and start all over with drag and drop
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[email protected]

Whew, there are so many files involved with networking, that we should try this first, which should make new ones of most of them...
Make a New Location, Using network locations in Mac OS X ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712
10.5, 10.6, 10.7 & 10.8…
System Preferences>Network, top of window>Locations>Edit Locations, little plus icon, give it a name.
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
If using Wifi/Airport...
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For 10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8, System Preferences>Network, unlock the lock if need be, highlight the Interface you use to connect to Internet, click on the advanced button, click on the DNS tab, click on the little plus icon, then add these numbers...
208.67.222.222
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FirmTek has a special Black Friday sale going on until Monday. It is the best deal I have ever seen on FirmTek product. You can see the details here:
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Screenshots:
Login Items - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Magick0ne/Other/Login_Items.jpg
Every Startup - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Magick0ne/Other/Finder_Windows.jpg
Message was edited by: Pifman

Pifman wrote:
Thanks to both of you. I guess the search I ran wasn't good enough as I didn't find the discussion that you posted.
One of the possible workarounds posted there was to use a third-party program that I found difficult to understand and use. Instead I took V.K.'s advice and made an AppleScript and then made that script launch at login. Works like a charm.
Only difference is that my AppleScript isn't located in the Utilities folder (10.5.8), instead I got to it by going to Applications / AppleScript / Script Editor.
sorry, my mistake on the location.
Then I made a script and saved it as an application. I then put that application in my Login Items (System Prefs / Accounts / Login Items).
If you're having trouble finding the mount volume (or server) address, here's how you can find it: If you are currently connected to the volume(s) that you want to use, left-click it and hit Cmd+I (or right-click, Get Info). Use the address next to "Server:" - That's it!
Hopefully Apple will fix this bug soon so people don't have to make AppleScripts just to make the OS work correctly.
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