LOST INTERNAL RAID
I have...HAD...two small raids in my MacPro. Just two sets of 500GB drives raided as RAID 0. The idea was to have a couple small internal raids for video playback, although in the end I never ended up using them as such. Always just used them as storage. ANYWAY, just to say that this sometimes happens, one of the raids failed. Doesn't show up. I can see it in the Disk Utility, but as two separate raid slices. It cannot repair them...Disk Warrior cannot repair them. I reseated them to no avail...it was gone. No big thing, the files that that particular RAID was holding are no longer needed. Backed up and archived as the show is done. Thank goodness.
So...RAID 0 is still called the 'scary raid' for good reason. Now I will be unraiding all my drives and keeping them as separate disks, since I won't be putting media on them. Even if I do, they are plenty fast on their own for the media I work with.
5 comments:
Gee Shane, you're the one who told me NOT to stripe my internal drives as a RAID-0!... Glad you didn't lose anything important.
I know...I KNOW! I just, well, needed a little omph for something.
The drive died, that's what happened. Seagate...DOA. Handy doorstop. Happens to the best of them.
That is scary stuff, it is a warning to me to make some backups.
Shane, I confirmed last night that one of the drives with our 'Happy Birthday Harris Malden' footage was DEAD. (Click, CLICK, click, CLICK. Never a good sound.) Luckily we had a new-enough backup. That would have been half of a feature film down the drain. [Barf]
Well, hopefully you have the master tapes and back up the project file...so it wouldn't be a complete loss.
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