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Re: re-stripiing sata drives

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Re: re-stripiing sata drives
by Ken Jones on Jul 9, 2009 at 6:26:05 pm

I don't know if my configuration would work for your needs, but here's my set up.


I have a five drive enclosure striped as a 7.5 TB RAID 0 (5 X 1.5TB). I have a second identical RAID 0 enclosure I back up to every 24 hours.

My Mac Pro has four internal drive bays: 1. System Drive, 2. System Drive Backup, 3. Resources (various files I use for multiple projects - i.e. production music), 4. Resources Backup.

My back up software (Synchronize! Pro X - $99) backs up the System drive at 3:00 AM, Resources drive at 3:30 AM, and RAID at 4:00 AM.

I ordered the RAID enclosures from MacGurus.com. These enclosures (loaded with drives) are $1459 each. Each enclosure has a port multiplier. The enclosures are hooked up with eSATA cables to a Lycom eSATA-4e PCI card ($90). Rick at MacGurus is very helpful and knowledgeable and helped me come up with this system.

I usually work in 1920X1080i ProRes and this system has been working great. If I have captured a bunch of footage I will sometimes manually back up the RAID before its scheduled time. MacGurus sells larger enclosures with more drives - which you might need for uncompressed HD.


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