Mac Pro raid card battery
I have a Late 2008 Mac pro with one 15,000 RPM Hard drive. When I bought it in December 2008, I had to get a mac pro raid card because of the high speed drive.
Now has you can understand this raid card is not really used to make a redundant array of independent disks" because there is only one disk.
The problem is that every 3 months or so the battery is conditioned.
Well guess what on february 6 (14 months after it was bought) raid utility reported the battery was Kaput and that cache were disabled.
I am not sure but I think that the cache maintained by the battery is important if you have like 2 hd on raid 0. But what is the importance of that cache if I have only one very fast disk.
I have been trying to order a battery to replace the dead one after having found a Kbase article explaining how to change the battery. But up to now the only answer I got from people at Apple is that I would have to buy an new RAID card.
Is that for real.... Do I have to buy a new card for a dead battery...
Any insight would be appreciated.
Ray
Now has you can understand this raid card is not really used to make a redundant array of independent disks" because there is only one disk.
The problem is that every 3 months or so the battery is conditioned.
Well guess what on february 6 (14 months after it was bought) raid utility reported the battery was Kaput and that cache were disabled.
I am not sure but I think that the cache maintained by the battery is important if you have like 2 hd on raid 0. But what is the importance of that cache if I have only one very fast disk.
I have been trying to order a battery to replace the dead one after having found a Kbase article explaining how to change the battery. But up to now the only answer I got from people at Apple is that I would have to buy an new RAID card.
Is that for real.... Do I have to buy a new card for a dead battery...
Any insight would be appreciated.
Ray
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
