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Topic: DOLBY SERVER = QUESTIONS
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 07-20-2014 10:59 PM
quote: Leo Enticknap
When you say that the OEM card can only support four drives, does this mean that although there are eight physical slots for hard drives in the machine, only the four on the left can actually be used unless I replace the RAID card? If so and if I put 2TB drives in those four slots, will I also get 5.3TB of usable storage?
Yes to all the above, except I think you will find Dolby isn't a snooty company like some manufacturers. It isn't like you are changing to a different after market raid card. Again, you would still be using the same raid card. If Dolby stuck their nose up at that, they would also stick their nose up at the idea of using (as an example) Seagate 2TB drives instead of the OEM Hitachi 1TB drives. But if 5.3TB is enough for you, then that's the easiest way out. If you want to update and put 4TB drives in, you can do that too, but you must be on 4.5 or higher for that to work on a 4-drive raid.
Also before you go getting all clever and decide to put the original 4 drives into the 4 slots on the right, you should note that those 4 slots DO have power going to them, so you won't be "storing" that set of drives, you will actually be "burning life off of" that set of drives. It's best to keep them on the shelf labeled 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-21-2014 12:20 PM
If this was a home theater setup or we had a spare DSS200 that we could simply swap into place in the event of any serious gremlins, I'd be all for upgrading the RAID card and going to an eight-drive RAID. However, it's running shows in a 600-seat downtown theater and it's mission critical, so I'm going to be ultra cautious and go the 4x2TB route, leaving the software as it is, for now. Quite apart from anything else, taking the machine out of the rack wouldn't be a quick or easy job, thanks to all the stuff around it. As one of my co-workers is going to be away for the whole of August and the show schedule is pretty demanding anyway, I'm not keen to bite off more than we can chew. During one of those weeks the schedule appears to be almost entirely 35mm, and that's when I've got in mind for installing the new hard drives.
I will check out whether it's running in TLS mode tomorrow. This will be useful to know, because if we run into SMPTE subtitle issues while testing any of these DCPs (and given that one of these festivals in September is Japanese and the other the Guadalajara festival, I suspect that this could well happen - we certainly had one subtitle-problematic DCP with the Greek festival a couple of months ago), then if we already have TLS mode, at least we have the option of a software update to solve that problem at that point. That would then give us the option of going to a 4x4TB RAID if we're still short of space. My gut feeling is that having 5TB to play with will take a lot of the pressure off, and should enable us to have all the DCPs ingested and playable (keys permitting, though thankfully, indie and festival DCPs tend to be unencrypted) at least a week ahead of time.
Thanks again for all the suggestions, especially the heads-up that slots 5-8 are powered and should be left empty.
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