Raid Storage Options

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yachtclubav

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Hey -

I am trying to build a storage system and need some advice.
I am working on a mac and need at least 5TB - and I would imagine double that for mirroring. Here are some of my questions below

1. In Mac OSX is it possible to setup RAID5 - Parity?
2. If Raid5 not possible is Raid1 - Mirroring - fast enough to edit 1080i clips from?
3. Does anyone recommend an SATA enclosure box and sata PCI-X card?

FYI - Right now I have a Norco DS-1220 12bay enclosure with 10-500GB Sata drives in bays 1-10. I am having some problems with it which have to do with mac 10.4.x not being compatible with the SATARaid software the Silicon Image 3124 sata card uses. So I am only able to use Raid1 from Disk Utility. My mirrored raids are very slow and I keep having problems with them - constantly rebuilding.

What are others using for storage methods? I am not looking to daisy chain a bunch of G-Techs or other FW drives. Too messy a setup i'm afraid. I am looking for something under $1 per GB - preferably around $.50-$.60 per GB. Suggestions?

thanks--
anthony
 
Buy some G-raid2 external drives from G-technology. They are able to handle 3 streams HD simultaneously and are designed to work with the Mac !!!
 
Mac Storage options

Mac Storage options

I've written tons on this over at HD for Indies.

3ware also has a new (G5 onlly not Mac Pro) fault tolerant RAID, Disk Utility can do RAID 10, SoftRAID is much better than Disk Utility for RAID 1.

hdforindies.com and search and read
 
You should take a look at 2 Sonnet Fusion 500P's along with their X4P (if your G5 has pci-x). I've got two enclosures with 10 Seagate 7200.10 320GB drives striped raid 0 . The raid can do 10bit uncompressed 1080i and never drops frames. Fast! I have a second raid set that I clone the media to as back-up. Works great!
 
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