Hey guys,
We just wrapped principal photography 3 weeks ago on our first feature film, Farheight High: The Sci-Fi Movie Musical. If the title doesn't fully explain the kind of movie we made, well, . . . read it again. Anyway, we shot on the HVX, which far exceeded our expectations. For on set data dumps we used a powerbook hooked up to a 500 GB G-Raid, running in Raid0 mode. We brought the g raid to many different locations, and never had a problem. We also backed up the data daily to our 1.6 TB TeraStore from Buffalo Tech.
After the shoot wrapped, we had quite a bit of work still ahead of us. We had to log all the clips in Final Cut, as well as synch all the audio, since we recorded it seperately using the maudio microtrack. So for the last three weeks, we've spent our time logging our 1,300 video clips, and our 800 Audio clips.
Now for the disaster. We've been keeping all the save files on the G-Raid as well as the footage, because we're constantly moving back and forth between the powerbook and the G5 for editing. So last night, we're moving all of our gear into the basement we're going to be working out of. I have a smaller external USB harddrive which (unbeknownst to me at the time) has the same power connector as the g-raid. I accidentally plugged the G-Raid power supply into this small external USB drive, and the USB drive's power supply into the g-raid.
I go to switch both drives on, and neither comes on. I quickly realize the mistake, and plug the proper power supply into the USB drive. It turns on. Good. However, when I go to plug in the G-Raid, now connected to its proper power supply, nothing happens. No Power, no lights, no hard drives spinning. I'm thinking to myself, crap, I'm really screwed here. Even though I still have the backup files of the footage, my FCP files were stored on the G-Raid, and I'm kinda screwed if I lose them, three weeks work will be down the drain.
I've already contacted G-Raid, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. The power supply has a status light on it, which is slowly blinking green, I may be mistaken but I believe it used to always be a solid green. I'm hoping it's just the power supply, but I'm not sure. If these drives are fried because of this, it's going to be a major headache. Does anyone know of any solutions to a problem like this with a G-Raid?
One idea I had was to pull the two sata drives out of the graid, and connect them via external sata to the Mac, and then stripe them in Raid0, and just copy the data over to another drive, do you guys think that would work? I've never striped individual drives on a mac before, so I don't know if they have to be formatted or not.
Any help here would be most appreciated, if there's any way we can get back up and working quicker, the sooner we can get this thing going. I think you guys are going to like some of the footage I have to post when this is up and running again.
-Steve
We just wrapped principal photography 3 weeks ago on our first feature film, Farheight High: The Sci-Fi Movie Musical. If the title doesn't fully explain the kind of movie we made, well, . . . read it again. Anyway, we shot on the HVX, which far exceeded our expectations. For on set data dumps we used a powerbook hooked up to a 500 GB G-Raid, running in Raid0 mode. We brought the g raid to many different locations, and never had a problem. We also backed up the data daily to our 1.6 TB TeraStore from Buffalo Tech.
After the shoot wrapped, we had quite a bit of work still ahead of us. We had to log all the clips in Final Cut, as well as synch all the audio, since we recorded it seperately using the maudio microtrack. So for the last three weeks, we've spent our time logging our 1,300 video clips, and our 800 Audio clips.
Now for the disaster. We've been keeping all the save files on the G-Raid as well as the footage, because we're constantly moving back and forth between the powerbook and the G5 for editing. So last night, we're moving all of our gear into the basement we're going to be working out of. I have a smaller external USB harddrive which (unbeknownst to me at the time) has the same power connector as the g-raid. I accidentally plugged the G-Raid power supply into this small external USB drive, and the USB drive's power supply into the g-raid.
I go to switch both drives on, and neither comes on. I quickly realize the mistake, and plug the proper power supply into the USB drive. It turns on. Good. However, when I go to plug in the G-Raid, now connected to its proper power supply, nothing happens. No Power, no lights, no hard drives spinning. I'm thinking to myself, crap, I'm really screwed here. Even though I still have the backup files of the footage, my FCP files were stored on the G-Raid, and I'm kinda screwed if I lose them, three weeks work will be down the drain.
I've already contacted G-Raid, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. The power supply has a status light on it, which is slowly blinking green, I may be mistaken but I believe it used to always be a solid green. I'm hoping it's just the power supply, but I'm not sure. If these drives are fried because of this, it's going to be a major headache. Does anyone know of any solutions to a problem like this with a G-Raid?
One idea I had was to pull the two sata drives out of the graid, and connect them via external sata to the Mac, and then stripe them in Raid0, and just copy the data over to another drive, do you guys think that would work? I've never striped individual drives on a mac before, so I don't know if they have to be formatted or not.
Any help here would be most appreciated, if there's any way we can get back up and working quicker, the sooner we can get this thing going. I think you guys are going to like some of the footage I have to post when this is up and running again.
-Steve
