Hi
I just put together a new computer for storing our digital footage at the office. I set it up as a Raid 5, because I wanted maximum space, but wanted to be safe if one of the drives died. We cannot lose a clients footage, or we'd lose big money.
I chose a ASUS P8P67 B3 Intel P67 motherboard, because it has 8 sata ports. I chose Seagate 2TB, 5900RPM, 64MB, SATA-6G hard drives for the raid. There are 6, 2TB drives, for a total of 12 TB, minus what it needs for the Raid configuration.
Anyway, I'm getting really slow transfer speeds when copying footage to my raid. Its only about 6-8 mbps. This is really bad because it will take all day to copy over 1 project (around 100 gb). This is from one sata drive to another too.
I'm wondering about the stripe size. When I created the raid set, it recommended 64 kb in the utility. Should I set it higher?
Thanks
I just put together a new computer for storing our digital footage at the office. I set it up as a Raid 5, because I wanted maximum space, but wanted to be safe if one of the drives died. We cannot lose a clients footage, or we'd lose big money.
I chose a ASUS P8P67 B3 Intel P67 motherboard, because it has 8 sata ports. I chose Seagate 2TB, 5900RPM, 64MB, SATA-6G hard drives for the raid. There are 6, 2TB drives, for a total of 12 TB, minus what it needs for the Raid configuration.
Anyway, I'm getting really slow transfer speeds when copying footage to my raid. Its only about 6-8 mbps. This is really bad because it will take all day to copy over 1 project (around 100 gb). This is from one sata drive to another too.
I'm wondering about the stripe size. When I created the raid set, it recommended 64 kb in the utility. Should I set it higher?
Thanks