Comments on: Guardian Maximus 13-month redux http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/ Perspectives on storytelling and digital cinema technology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: LienDTK http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-3792 LienDTK Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:06:27 +0000 http://www.ericbrodeur.com/wp/?p=902#comment-3792 <p>Well, good news for me, thanks!</p> Well, good news for me, thanks!

]]> By: Eric http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-3704 Eric Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:03:25 +0000 http://www.ericbrodeur.com/wp/?p=902#comment-3704 <p>The drive placed into HDD1 is considered the Master in the case you are describing. This is what they told me at least.</p> <p>I'll be populating a new GMax this weekend using an existing 1 TB drive to a new, blank, 1 TB. Let's see how well HDD1 works copying to HDD2.</p> The drive placed into HDD1 is considered the Master in the case you are describing. This is what they told me at least.

I’ll be populating a new GMax this weekend using an existing 1 TB drive to a new, blank, 1 TB. Let’s see how well HDD1 works copying to HDD2.

]]> By: Dregoth http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 Dregoth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:50:40 +0000 http://www.ericbrodeur.com/wp/?p=902#comment-3690 <p>This is an excellent (!) piece of information which I can't find on the vendor's site..... I'm on the brink of mirrorring my two drives after I decided that my partitioned 1TB drive needed to become whole again due to space considerations (I used a partition for timemachine for which I now have a separate drive). And since partitioning (merging) software is hard to come by on OSX I went for a different route..... I removed one of the drives which I connected through a USB enclosure and erased it to a single partition (DU). I then connected the sole remaining HDD in the Newertech through firewire and proceeded to copy the contents to the single partition drive. </p> <p>But then the question ocurred: When installing the drives does the Newertech have a preference as to which drive is the source and which is the shadow? Will it matter if I use HDD1 or HDD2 as my source since I won't be installing a replacement but will be using the same original drives?</p> <p>It's still copying, but I'll comment if you're info saved the day... Thanks!!!</p> This is an excellent (!) piece of information which I can’t find on the vendor’s site….. I’m on the brink of mirrorring my two drives after I decided that my partitioned 1TB drive needed to become whole again due to space considerations (I used a partition for timemachine for which I now have a separate drive). And since partitioning (merging) software is hard to come by on OSX I went for a different route….. I removed one of the drives which I connected through a USB enclosure and erased it to a single partition (DU). I then connected the sole remaining HDD in the Newertech through firewire and proceeded to copy the contents to the single partition drive.

But then the question ocurred: When installing the drives does the Newertech have a preference as to which drive is the source and which is the shadow? Will it matter if I use HDD1 or HDD2 as my source since I won’t be installing a replacement but will be using the same original drives?

It’s still copying, but I’ll comment if you’re info saved the day… Thanks!!!

]]> By: Eric http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-2506 Eric Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:56:13 +0000 http://www.ericbrodeur.com/wp/?p=902#comment-2506 <p>@SeymourB, thanks for pointing out the last bullet point; it has been updated accordingly.</p> <p>Related to your disk-to-disk sync, I use ChronoSync (version 4) for backing up subsets of data between a USB flash drive, my iPhone, and iDisk.</p> @SeymourB, thanks for pointing out the last bullet point; it has been updated accordingly.

Related to your disk-to-disk sync, I use ChronoSync (version 4) for backing up subsets of data between a USB flash drive, my iPhone, and iDisk.

]]> By: SeymourB http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2009/03/21/guardian-maximus-13-month-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-2495 SeymourB Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:16:31 +0000 http://www.ericbrodeur.com/wp/?p=902#comment-2495 <p>I assume the last bullet point should be "If HDD1 fails the system knows as such. Be sure to leave this good drive at HDD2 and replace the failed HDD1"? Because having HDD2 fail, leaving the "good" (but failed) drive at HDD2, and replacing HDD1 (your data) doesn't make sense.</p> <p>Thanks for the review. Personally I don't mind a lot of screws in a case so long as I'm not flipping drives in and out all the time. Personally I've opted for two individual drives in individual cases with manual backups to keep the two in sync. Though between the two cases there's a total of 16 screws holding everything together, and the syncs are done at my discretion, not automatically.</p> I assume the last bullet point should be “If HDD1 fails the system knows as such. Be sure to leave this good drive at HDD2 and replace the failed HDD1″? Because having HDD2 fail, leaving the “good” (but failed) drive at HDD2, and replacing HDD1 (your data) doesn’t make sense.

Thanks for the review. Personally I don’t mind a lot of screws in a case so long as I’m not flipping drives in and out all the time. Personally I’ve opted for two individual drives in individual cases with manual backups to keep the two in sync. Though between the two cases there’s a total of 16 screws holding everything together, and the syncs are done at my discretion, not automatically.

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