Hello.
I have just purchased a new Mac Pro with a Pegasus 6 X 2 TB hard drive.
I have been reading that these can be set up several ways.
What I am wanting to do is use this drive for Final Cut Pro files.
Can someone tell me the best way to set this up.
My Mac Pro is as follows:
Memory: 64 Gig
CPU: Intel i7 12 core
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am not familiar with the RAID.
Thanks.
iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
The user manual suggests that if the promise Pegasus was shipped with drives installed, it is ready to use. If you want to set it up a different way, they suggest you download and install the Promise Utility.
promise download center has links for the Users guide and the Uility :
http://www.promise.com/Support/downloadcenter
Users guide:
I believe you can set it up easily to use redundant (mirrored) or concatenated (just a bunch of Drives). If you choose Striped RAID, you will need to make frequent Backups, as any error breaks a Striped RAID with essentially NO ability to recover the files.
Thank you very much for your reply Grant.
I was looking for that info before I had to go to work this morning.
I had no user manual packed with the drive.
Somewhere else in this forum I had read that Apple did not recommend putting FCPX on a RAID Drive so when I ordered I asked them and tech support said to make sure that it was formatted to Mac OS Extended Journal.
The drives are installed but this is what the package says:
It is preconfigured from the factory with RAID 5.
Pegasus2 ships from the factory pre-configured with one logical drive. This configuration is suitable for general purposes.
I was reading about RAID 0 1 5 10 50 and was not sure if the factory setup would be optimal for FPCX files.
Thanks a bunch.
I have the Pegasus R6 attached via its Thunderbolt 2 port to my Late 2013 Mac Pro. FCP X, like all of my software is installed on the Mac pro's SSD. I use the Pegasus R6 for video storage, including a lot of 4K video. It is best to leave the Pegasus R6 as a Raid 5 system (the way it comes pre-configured) since that is the best compromise between speed and safety. A Raid 5 gives plenty of speed even for multiple streams of 4K video, while at the same time if a single drive in the Raid 5 array fails, it can be replaced and the Pegasus will rebuild the raid and you will suffer no data loss.
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Thank you very much Tom.
I had read where someone had one at a RAID 0 and I was not sure of the correct format for FCPX files.
Thanks a bunch!
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