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I don't own one. I gave it a long look a while back and then got a cheaper Highpoint card (which has been fine so far).
I could not find anything negative about the Areca, but it doesn't appear to be real popular in video circles. I just couldn't find much buzz about it other than AMUG. There are indications that support for Areca controllers comes with the new Macs. Perhaps the Apple RAID card is Areca-made?? This could be a good sign.
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The one that looks really good to me is the new CalDigit. For one thing, the company really wants your business and will actually support the product.
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Plus the Cal has 8 external and 4 internal channels and a hardware IOP (like the Areca, Atto, and Highpoint 3000 series). But.it's new. If you can work with a reseller that will actually support you with the Areca (or Atto, CalDigit, or Highpoint for that matter), that would be good.
The integration of the card with a case, drives, cables, firmware and software is pretty critical, eh? I chose the DIY route and it's risky-no substitute for a lot of real-world experience and it's impossible for a DIY-er to get that compared to a seller who installs systems for many clients. Good luck finding some actual users! Thank you both for your responses. The AMUG report was detailed and very helpful. I have used Highpoint cards in the past. While the performance hit on the CPU might be unimportant on an 8-core, at that time they were very unreliable.
Alarm going off without a real disk failure, disks disappearing and re-appearing and the like. Our three cards all went back to the dealer. Don't know if they sorted out their problems by now, but with such an experience you don't really trust a RAID card any more.
Areca seems to make the cards for some highly respected RAID systems from the US too. Can anyone confirm this? Regards, Uli Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts. Arnie, Yes, I've seen many of your comments about your experience with Highpoint. I certainly took that into account when I bought one because I respect your opinion.
I've only had mine a few months and the RAID hasn't really gotten a severe workout yet. Basically, I've been afraid to rely on it too heavily.
But, it's been fine so far. I don't see a problem with the CPU hit. But, I'm still in a position to switch to a true hardware IOP card if I need to. I feel like I'm doing a lot of equivocating here.
Let me put it this way.I bought the Highpoint in spite of my doubts (and yours) about it. It saved me a few hundred bucks. I've never felt good about it since. But.it's been fine.so far. Thanks for your reports over the last few years.Tom Final Cut Studio 2, FCP 6.0.2, Mac OS-X 10.4.11, Quicktime 7.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2. Nate, Yes, I researched, bought, and built it all myself. I'll get back to you shortly with the parts list and prices you requested.
Did I save or just learn a new skill? I learned a lot while doing it. I didn't learn enough to be confident about the RAID.
I know I didn't become an expert at it. Maybe the community can help me judge whether I saved money or not. Soon after I made my purchases, various companies came out with cheaper RAID-5 systems and components that took a bite out of my savings margin. More later, OK? -Tom Final Cut Studio 2, FCP 6.0.2, Mac OS-X 10.4.11, Quicktime 7.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2. Here's the parts and price list I promised: 1 - Enhance E8ML-BLK Storage enclosure $441.82 Nowdirect.com 2 - Highpoint EXT-MS-1MSB SAS cable assy.
(SAS SFF-8088 to SATA 4x Infiniband) 60.70 Nowdirect.com 1 - Highpoint RocketRAID 2322 SATA-II 8-channel controller 240.99 eWiz.com 10- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200RPM SATA-II OEM hard drive 1799.90 NewEgg.com Plus tax and shipping of about $80.00 Total $ 2623.41 The box holds eight drives. Formatted capacity of 4.8TB. Two are spares on the shelf.
I ruled out hot spares because I'm always going to be there to install a spare if necessary. Hot spares reduce the number of drives in the RAID and thus the speed of the array. I got two spares so that I'd have the exact same drives available if one or two goes down. The system runs very quiet. Drives run at about 117F temp most of the time.
It measures right around 500MB/S. I don't have an accurate way to measure CPU drain due to the fact that the Highpoint card leaves the parity calculations to the computer, as opposed to a true hardware RAID card that contains an Intel or other I/O processor on board. It looks like about a 15% hit by way of the Mac perf monitor. Construction was very easy. The box is very high quality and well designed. Everything went together like nothing. The Highpoint manuals and online info are pretty minimal.
I felt least confident about configuring and formatting the RAID-5. But it's working without a hitch. A couple other things.The Highpoint card is SATA only-not SAS compatible as far as I know. Most newer RAID cards will work with either. The card has SAS 8088 connectors while the box has the older Infiniband (aka multilane) connectors.
The box was a steal at $441, so I went with it and got cables to match. In future, I can put SAS drives in the box if I want to reformat and the cables should work with other RAID controllers. Starting today, I'd probably look at the CalDigit RAID card. It's got the Intel IOP and more channels available and is not very expensive. With a few more bucks to spend I'd probably find one reliable reseller who is willing to sell me the parts and give advice instead of shopping all over the net for deals (I got some pretty good deals I think.). The Enhance US sales people are good and will help with info.
I believe I talked to Mike(?) there. I dunno, what do you think of the price vs what's out there preassembled and warranted? Final Cut Studio 2, FCP 6.0.2, Mac OS-X 10.4.11, Quicktime 7.4, After Effects 6.5 Pro, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2. Nate, The choice of the Seagates was based on their presence on the compatibility list from Highpoint which is on their support site. I wanted to stick to drives that were certified to work by the controller manufacturer.
So I searched for specific model numbers and looked for deals on ten drives. I got ten drives with all the same firmware version (also specified by Highpoint). It's likely that drives and firmware not on the list would also work, but I went by the book on that.
Enhance Technology, the enclosure maker, also listed compatible controller cards and my Highpoint was on that list along with an Areca and an Atto. The CalDigit was not available at that time (wish it had been). I've always had good luck with Seagate Barracudas in the past. Hitachis have also been perfectly reliable for me.
I'd definitely point people to a higher end controller. The Highpoint 3522 could be considered as well as the Areca, Atto and CalDigit. It's unclear to me what the risk to my RAID is if the power was to go out during a write to disk.
I think it could be disastrous. I have the RAID on a good UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to prevent this. The UPS should be considered an essential part of the system if you don't already have one, so figure that into the cost. I don't have a feature film with hundreds of hours of material stored on this unit, but I do have corporate projects that have to be there when the deadline approaches. I needed more security than I had with just the RAID-0 FW800 drives I had before. Now I put all my material on the RAID-5 and back up stills and projects to the FW drives.
Hey guys great info. I just wanted to mention a few of the unique features of the CalDigit RAID card since it has been mentioned in this thread. It's the card that I'm very familiar with and I feel is a great product. First not only does it allow you to do RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and JBOD internally on up to 4 drives, but externally as well on up to 12 drives. Using CalDigit's HDElement makes setup a breeze and another unique feature is migration.
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This allows you to move and expand your RAID without data loss. This really makes it possible for endless possibilities and configurations. This means that you can expand over time so you don't have to put up a ton of money all at once. The volumes created with the RAID card are bootable and can even support bootcamp. And of course is is compatible with Mac, Window, and Linux system with PCIe. The CalDigit RAID Card is 100% percent hardware RAID and uses an Intel Xscale processor with 256MB of cache. CalDigit also offers a money back guarantee, provides single vendor support, and for the low cost of $549 it's hard to go wrong.
Areca was running a live demo showing 700+ MB/sec Read performance in both AJA and Blackmagic tests using only 8 drives in RAID 5 at NAB. CalDigit only claims up to 500MB/sec. So even if their both using the same Intel IOP, I quess the Areca engineering team delivers a better designed RAID controller around the Intel IOP to produce the higher performance. The 200MB/sec difference definetly compensates for the price difference. I also saw the ARC-1680LP at their booth. It supports 4 internal drives and can connect external storage boxes, up to 128 drives if using a SAS expander box.
This is definetly the best solution if you want expandability. Chris Rye 'Areca was running a live demo showing 700+ MB/sec Read performance in both AJA and Blackmagic tests using only 8 drives in RAID 5 at NAB. CalDigit only claims up to 500MB/sec. So even if their both using the same Intel IOP, I quess the Areca engineering team delivers a better designed RAID controller around the Intel IOP to produce the higher performance.
The 200MB/sec difference definetly compensates for the price difference.' Ah but the true question to ask of both Areca and CalDigit is for HOW LONG will those speeds hold up? See with any hard drive array, they will start to lose speed at about 75% full and then they will get progressively slower as they fill up. 700MB/s sounds really fast, but is that speed maintained at 50% full? If it can't maintain the advertised speed up to 75% full, I consider that misleading advertising.
I know when it used to be HUGE Systems, those drives were always advertised with the slowest maintained speeds because they could absolutely guarantee the speeds. When the drives were empty, they were generally about 100MB/s or so faster than the advertised speed. So that's the real question to ask of these guys and quite honestly ANY hard drive manufacturer who makes a claim of speed. 'Are these quoted speeds for a newly cleaned and empty array or is this an array that's 75% full?' I'm betting the CalDigit speeds are closer to reality than Areca for a 'real world' drive that's in use. Walter Biscardi, Jr. HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
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Apple Color Training DVD available now! Thanks everybody for the great info! I'm very aware of drives being slower when getting filled up, but wouldn't that affect all cards in a similar progression? I haven't heard yet of manufacturers to develop schemes for distributing data in a way to compensate for that effect (if at all possible), or are there any? Anyway, I think I'll go for the CalDigit card, since I'm not aiming at ultimate speed, but rather expandability – fill the MacPro internally now, get an external box later. Best regards, Uli Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts.
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