Re: re-stripiing sata drives

Aloha Bob...

Great information... thanks. However, I'm holding the Sonnet card in my hand. It's purple and says Tempo Serial ATA E4 (printed on the board on one side) and TSATAII-E4P, Sonnet Tempo-ErP SATA (on a sticker on the reverse). On another sticker it says TSATAII-E4E-BLT REV A1. Nowhere does it say X4P.

Nevertheless, your description of the port multiplier, enclosures, drives and Raid setup are dead on. We originally striped the drives in two groups of five at Raid 0, just as you said. We've been able to do uncompressed HD, but have had the raids disappear several times, as one is now.

We have no choice but to do as you said, stripe all ten together at Raid 0, knowing it will fail eventually. Unfortunately, we don't have the budget to buy a new array at the moment. But we are prepared for that eventuality. We'd appreciate your advice as to what array to buy... with cost in mind, but performance and reliability of the utmost importance.

Now, dumb question of the day... exactly how do we re-stripe the drives?

Many thanks for your help, Bob. You da man!

Mick Kalber
Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
Hilo, Hawaii