is Raid Shield pointless or not working
by Rhys Ludlow
on
Jul 12, 2008 at 1:08:36 am
These things always seem to crop up Friday after 5:00
JUST installed HDOne - I ignored the disk it came with and used the updated software from the CalDigit site.
Seemed to go smoothly mounts on desktop. I thought I'd create 2 partitions (not sure if that's a good idea). So I tried opening Raid Shield to see if that was the place to do it but there seems to be nothing there.
When I go to Add controller it shows me the device but when I click on that, it asks me for a password.???
Going to "help" give me the message "Help index" -- this is not very helpful and there is no information I can find on the Caldigit site. At least nothing that even closely resembles this raid shield
So far very unimpressed with the documentation on this -- I guess they like to talk on the phone.
Anyway if anyone can help before Monday -- I was hoping to get started.. Should I partition this before I start capturing? If so how do I do it? What is the purpose of Raid Shield?
Re: is Raid Shield pointless or not working by Jared Picune on Jul 12, 2008 at 1:28:17 am
The default password is 00000000 (that is 8 0's)
Unless yo have an important need for two partitions, there is really not reason to do that.
RAID Shield will allow you to monitor and make changes to your RAID, but comes formatted for RAID 5, so you don't have to do anything out of the box.
From the HDOne documentation: The RAID Shield utility is a quick and easy way
to check on the status of your HDOne but is not
necessary for day to day use. If you've followed the
steps outlined in this manual, your HDOne should be
ready for use.
Re: is Raid Shield pointless or not working by Rhys Ludlow on Jul 12, 2008 at 8:36:19 pm
Thanks.
In the past, we have used two partitions so occasionally we can copy everything we want to one of the partitions and clear the other partition essentially defragging it.
I'm not sure if this is still a valid procedure.
For now, I will forge ahead as is and not overcomplicate things.
Rhys Ludlow
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