JollyJoeJoe
Apr 23, 10:59 PM
So Im a freelance Editor/Motion Graphics guy with no real understanding of RAID Controller Cards, or how they work.
As of right now I have three 1TB drives inside my Mac Pro, RAIDed together (stripe 0) using the OS. No Raid card.
The drives are all 7200rpm from varying manufacturers. (not sure if this matters.)
My questions is; is it beneficial for me to get a RAID card to control these drives vs. leaving it to the OS to handle? Any suggestions for me?
Thanks.
2010 8-Core Mac Pro 2.4
14GB RAM
3 drives in RAID0 ? Yikes, anyone of them goes and your machine is out of action. RAID0 offers no fault tolerance as no drives in the array share parity info or are mirrored.
You would most certainly see a benefit in a hardware RAID solution, especially if you are going to switch to a RAID level with some redundancy, like RAID5 or RAID10. Also a true hardware RAID takes the processing load off your processors and memory.
If on a budget you could go with RAID-Z, it involves switching to the ZFS file system. RAID-Z1 apparently offers similar performance to RAID5. Read this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1135718) for further insight.
I would get an SSD for the OS and use the 3x 7200rpm Disks in RAID5.
RAID5 is great for storing uncompressed video data and in your case would offer protection against a single drive failure.
or Just RAID5 with 3x HDD's and partition the RAID volume.
The most recommend cards right now are the Areca 6g 1880 series or the new ATTO 6G series. For your needs something like the ARC-1880-i SAS 6G RAID Controller would suffice if you don't plan to connect external RAID/Storage solution.
I would go with a 6G controller so as to take advantage of new fast 6G SSD's etc.
nanofrog is the RAID-whizz around here and I am sure he would be able to suggest something for you.
As of right now I have three 1TB drives inside my Mac Pro, RAIDed together (stripe 0) using the OS. No Raid card.
The drives are all 7200rpm from varying manufacturers. (not sure if this matters.)
My questions is; is it beneficial for me to get a RAID card to control these drives vs. leaving it to the OS to handle? Any suggestions for me?
Thanks.
2010 8-Core Mac Pro 2.4
14GB RAM
3 drives in RAID0 ? Yikes, anyone of them goes and your machine is out of action. RAID0 offers no fault tolerance as no drives in the array share parity info or are mirrored.
You would most certainly see a benefit in a hardware RAID solution, especially if you are going to switch to a RAID level with some redundancy, like RAID5 or RAID10. Also a true hardware RAID takes the processing load off your processors and memory.
If on a budget you could go with RAID-Z, it involves switching to the ZFS file system. RAID-Z1 apparently offers similar performance to RAID5. Read this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1135718) for further insight.
I would get an SSD for the OS and use the 3x 7200rpm Disks in RAID5.
RAID5 is great for storing uncompressed video data and in your case would offer protection against a single drive failure.
or Just RAID5 with 3x HDD's and partition the RAID volume.
The most recommend cards right now are the Areca 6g 1880 series or the new ATTO 6G series. For your needs something like the ARC-1880-i SAS 6G RAID Controller would suffice if you don't plan to connect external RAID/Storage solution.
I would go with a 6G controller so as to take advantage of new fast 6G SSD's etc.
nanofrog is the RAID-whizz around here and I am sure he would be able to suggest something for you.
vvebster
Apr 9, 10:17 AM
you can always downgrade, unless there's something in 4.3.1 you really need.
Do you know by any chance how to downgrade?
Do you know by any chance how to downgrade?
qevalla
Apr 25, 06:31 PM
Hi
Can anyone help me why black color on the screen looks like shining and its difficult te see any photo or something like that(its like when you see from a corner on the normal screen).But when I see from a different angle it looks really good... so im having the problem only when I see from a normal view... this problem starts when I change a new lcd screen.
If someone knows what to do I really appreciate that ...
Thanks
Qevalla
Can anyone help me why black color on the screen looks like shining and its difficult te see any photo or something like that(its like when you see from a corner on the normal screen).But when I see from a different angle it looks really good... so im having the problem only when I see from a normal view... this problem starts when I change a new lcd screen.
If someone knows what to do I really appreciate that ...
Thanks
Qevalla
Abstract
Apr 7, 04:54 AM
For most things, I don't have a favourite.
Apple (for laptops only)
Uniqlo if I'm in Asia, and only for things like underpants. :p
Nikon, but only because every SLR user is stuck with one brand anyway.
Otherwise, I get the best/aesthetically pleasing thing I can reasonably afford.
Apple (for laptops only)
Uniqlo if I'm in Asia, and only for things like underpants. :p
Nikon, but only because every SLR user is stuck with one brand anyway.
Otherwise, I get the best/aesthetically pleasing thing I can reasonably afford.
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mikey.f
Oct 26, 11:04 PM
I really liked they actually asked what size we wanted the tee :cool:
chown33
Mar 25, 10:35 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_notation
Also called place-value notation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
See the Conversion headings.
Also called place-value notation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
See the Conversion headings.
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theSeb
Apr 27, 04:26 PM
Just so you know there are no military applications that benefit from this.
Where is the laugh out loud smiley?
Where is the laugh out loud smiley?
zildjansg
Dec 29, 03:01 AM
Food!Food!and Food!:D ...and this
http://static.globalgrind.com/i/CIT/I12/893/40.623035.jpg
http://static.globalgrind.com/i/CIT/I12/893/40.623035.jpg
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mrkramer
Feb 12, 02:49 PM
personally, I would get the classic, since I already have an older nano, both are great iPods though, so you would be happy with either. Base your decision on how important having all of your music with you is, if you can get by with less storage, the Nano will be great, if you need all of your music with you you have no choice but the classic.
jayscheuerle
Jul 3, 04:25 PM
Hate to break it to you crenz, but Panther won't run on beige G3s.
I'm in the same boat with my 400 MHz minitower. The choice is either stick with Jaguar (decent enough) or upgrade EVERYTHING!
Who knows? Maybe there will be a beige-box hack out there come January...
I'm in the same boat with my 400 MHz minitower. The choice is either stick with Jaguar (decent enough) or upgrade EVERYTHING!
Who knows? Maybe there will be a beige-box hack out there come January...
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rnbd
May 5, 05:01 AM
Does anyone have this problem? IPhoto duplicates the event section. When sync to the iPhone. Shows in iTunes but not in iPhoto .
SKOTTIEG23
Mar 19, 11:57 AM
The word "New" is all over this ebay listing. I see that in the top area it shows refurb, but this listing seems to be a little misleading. One of your headings even says "Brand New." This combined with using an actual iPhone box that didnt come with this item seems shady to me. I may be the only one, but honestly i guarentee that who ever wins this item thinks they are getting an actual brand new phone, not a refurbished product.
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brad.c
Jan 14, 08:48 AM
I don't know what I'll do--wait for the video stream, or watch the text feed feed. I do miss the days of the live stream, when you were forced to let the suspense mount in real-time. But trying to recreate that suspense during the dry iTunes-market-share-pie-chart extravaganza just may force me to hit the FF button. And muck it up somehow.
Besides, it's not the same when it's live, and you know you are finding out at the same time as everybody else.
Besides, it's not the same when it's live, and you know you are finding out at the same time as everybody else.
The.316
Oct 31, 05:55 AM
Here is my collection
Blu's
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/5127152612_4d77b15255.jpg
Is it just the picture, or is that shelf ready to go?
Nice collections BTW. I had about 500 DVDs from the States, but since i live in Greece now, they wont play on my PS3 I bought here, so I converted them all, and have them stored on my external drive.
Anyone have any ideas what I should do with them? I have them in two boxes in the garage.
Blu's
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/5127152612_4d77b15255.jpg
Is it just the picture, or is that shelf ready to go?
Nice collections BTW. I had about 500 DVDs from the States, but since i live in Greece now, they wont play on my PS3 I bought here, so I converted them all, and have them stored on my external drive.
Anyone have any ideas what I should do with them? I have them in two boxes in the garage.
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chrono1081
Apr 8, 06:21 PM
Did you ever manage to get this working?
Potatochobit
Apr 28, 01:30 AM
OWC and OCZ are very very similar in regards to build and firmware
I am using an agility 2 in my 2008 macbook pro which I am typing on right now
I also upgraded to 8GB of memory
you can buy crucial, corsair, OCZ or OWC, any are fine
I use an OCZ in my PC as well
Whatever you do, make sure you update the firmware ASAP, before even installing into your mac
if you have a PC, that makes it super easy, just plug it in and update
if you don't, be sure to visit the SSD manufacturers website for the one you plan to buy, many of them require you to burn a disc and boot from the DVD drive (basically you running linux off a CD) and update it that way in your mac
I am using an agility 2 in my 2008 macbook pro which I am typing on right now
I also upgraded to 8GB of memory
you can buy crucial, corsair, OCZ or OWC, any are fine
I use an OCZ in my PC as well
Whatever you do, make sure you update the firmware ASAP, before even installing into your mac
if you have a PC, that makes it super easy, just plug it in and update
if you don't, be sure to visit the SSD manufacturers website for the one you plan to buy, many of them require you to burn a disc and boot from the DVD drive (basically you running linux off a CD) and update it that way in your mac
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mad jew
Dec 16, 06:23 PM
No problems. Hopefully it's something simple like the loose antenna. :)
calculus
Jan 12, 09:53 AM
What is your opinion on Cisco and Apple's dispute?
iDontcare about this dispute.
iDontcare about this dispute.
LaMerVipere
Jan 19, 11:01 PM
I am afraid that it is not bug free yet, and with all the in-house designed features that it is offering, they simple aren't great enough to offset the way the members act.
devilot
Sep 24, 01:04 PM
he was recruited onto a team and they compete in international tournaments... according to him, the only proper gaming set up would use a CRT not an LCD. *shrugg* I'm quite ignorant in these matters though. :o
Dysfnctnl85
Jun 17, 02:26 PM
Excellent work :apple:
all videos free :) just downloading a few now. :D
This is effing awesome. Thank you Apple.
all videos free :) just downloading a few now. :D
This is effing awesome. Thank you Apple.
PaRaGoNViCtiM
Nov 28, 06:08 PM
i can offer 70$ shipped to the uk !
sorry all i got very low i know :)
Sent you a PM.
sorry all i got very low i know :)
Sent you a PM.
harry*333
Jun 6, 07:50 PM
:confused:
What does this have to do with macrumors
What does this have to do with macrumors
Night Spring
Apr 5, 12:47 AM
Out of curiosity, why did you use a third party charger? I've done it a few times with other devices, but it's always been with quality, branded chargers (like charging my Kindle with my BlackBerry's charger), but I wouldn't dare do that with my iPad unless I knew it was top quality since so many of those third party chargers, like third party batteries, can damage your equipment.
By the way, I think using a third party charger may have voided your warranty anyway. At least on some devices I'm pretty sure it does.
No way third party chargers void warranty, if it did, we wouldn't have a single Apple device left with any warranty. :eek:
Anyway, OP is in luck, as 4.3.1 JB just came out. So he can just restore to that and see if that fixes his problem.
By the way, I think using a third party charger may have voided your warranty anyway. At least on some devices I'm pretty sure it does.
No way third party chargers void warranty, if it did, we wouldn't have a single Apple device left with any warranty. :eek:
Anyway, OP is in luck, as 4.3.1 JB just came out. So he can just restore to that and see if that fixes his problem.
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