Firewire Enclosures

mrbobb · 4th January 2007

I've heard a few rumors I'm hoping to confirm or deny here. I have 5 Firewire drives I've built, mostly Seagate drives, but a few different enclosures (OWC, Metal Box, ADS). For the record, they are holding Samples, BFD and SFX, I don't record to them.

Is there a benefit to making all of the enclosures the same brand of box? Increase in speed, efficiency? I heard that I should be matching my chipsets. If so, what enclosures do people recommend? Also, I'm running Pro Tools LE and was under the impression that RAID was out of the question. Still true? Thanks for all of your help.

Matt

G5 Dual 2.0 (1st Gen.)
10.4.8
Digi 002
PT 7.3

mrbobb · 6th January 2007

bump. Any help?

numrologst · 7th January 2007

raid isn't supported in protools but you can do it... They just don't guarantee support if you do it...

If you are gonna run a raid setup, you need multiples of the exact same drive.

You won't be any faster if you match drives/chipsets without a raid

mrbobb · 7th January 2007

Thanks for the info. So with that said, do you use that setup, any luck, any hiccups?

Harley-OIART · 7th January 2007

Understandable the reason you are asking this.

Typically most of us engineering types are real sticklers for details of course, but in this case, I would have to say that your fine with the setup you have.

Keep your reciepts incase by some fluke chance an enclosure isn't compatible with something (*essentially never happens*) so you can take it back and get another brand. They are pretty simple devices as you know from putting a few together, basically an IDE or SATA connection to a chipset w/ powersupply to an output (FW or USB). Not much to mess up there.

As the other poster said, sorry, no RAID with PT.

Good luck with the recordings. Cheers.

-Scott Harloff

4th January 2007	#1
mrbobb Gear Head Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Santa Monica, CA Posts: 55 Thread Starter	Firewire Enclosures I've heard a few rumors I'm hoping to confirm or deny here. I have 5 Firewire drives I've built, mostly Seagate drives, but a few different enclosures (OWC, Metal Box, ADS). For the record, they are holding Samples, BFD and SFX, I don't record to them. Is there a benefit to making all of the enclosures the same brand of box? Increase in speed, efficiency? I heard that I should be matching my chipsets. If so, what enclosures do people recommend? Also, I'm running Pro Tools LE and was under the impression that RAID was out of the question. Still true? Thanks for all of your help. Matt G5 Dual 2.0 (1st Gen.) 10.4.8 Digi 002 PT 7.3

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6th January 2007	#2
mrbobb Gear Head Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Santa Monica, CA Posts: 55 Thread Starter	bump. Any help?

7th January 2007	#3
numrologst Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 1,955	raid isn't supported in protools but you can do it... They just don't guarantee support if you do it... If you are gonna run a raid setup, you need multiples of the exact same drive. You won't be any faster if you match drives/chipsets without a raid

7th January 2007	#5
Harley-OIART Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,129	Understandable the reason you are asking this. Typically most of us engineering types are real sticklers for details of course, but in this case, I would have to say that your fine with the setup you have. Keep your reciepts incase by some fluke chance an enclosure isn't compatible with something (essentially never happens) so you can take it back and get another brand. They are pretty simple devices as you know from putting a few together, basically an IDE or SATA connection to a chipset w/ powersupply to an output (FW or USB). Not much to mess up there. As the other poster said, sorry, no RAID with PT. Good luck with the recordings. Cheers. -Scott Harloff