Hi folks,
I'm setting up a home media RAID.
I bought the MediaSonic ProRAID usb2/esata box and 4 WD Caviar Green drives, which won't even mount. Upon further reading, I find there may be issues with these drive spinning down and the wrong info is sent to the controller so it gets booted.
I'm going to bring them back and was looking at the Seagate 2 TB drives (
http://pccyber.com/?v=Product&i=HD-ST32000542AS)
It's 5900 RPM, but would that be fast enough?
What I'll be doing with this RAID 5 (so just under 4 TBs in 2 striped setups):
1. streaming movies, photos and music to AppleTV
2. house my family's home movies in uncompressed .mov files (it. alot of space calculated)
This will be connected to my 2009 mac pro via esata.
Searches show a favourable response in the RAID set up, but looking for any additional info
Cheers,
Keebler
I'm setting up a home media RAID.
I bought the MediaSonic ProRAID usb2/esata box and 4 WD Caviar Green drives, which won't even mount. Upon further reading, I find there may be issues with these drive spinning down and the wrong info is sent to the controller so it gets booted.
I'm going to bring them back and was looking at the Seagate 2 TB drives (
http://pccyber.com/?v=Product&i=HD-ST32000542AS)
It's 5900 RPM, but would that be fast enough?
What I'll be doing with this RAID 5 (so just under 4 TBs in 2 striped setups):
1. streaming movies, photos and music to AppleTV
2. house my family's home movies in uncompressed .mov files (it. alot of space calculated)
This will be connected to my 2009 mac pro via esata.
Searches show a favourable response in the RAID set up, but looking for any additional info
Cheers,
Keebler