buck-up systems from ONNTO

[ignaz]

Hi to all,

should anyone come across  back-up systems from ONNTO ( DataTale ) keep away from them,
those are dangerous pieces of crap.

[mauro risch]

What would you recommend?
Drobos?

[ignaz]

it is risky to recomend any backup system, but I'll get the four bay Drobo...

[NickT]

I was a big fan of the Drobo concept but have since heard a bunch of horror stories. If the controller board fails you will be unable to get to your data until you gat a new one. I believe the safest way is to make multiple simple clones of data.
Nick-T

[Phil G]

What would you recommend?
Drobos?

Na

Just use bare SATA drives in a 2, 4 or 6bay unit and get a back up routine going it's so easy on a Mac,  we have a couple of Wiebietech 4 bay units using 1TB drives, units connect via eSATA cable to computer and I can even use them with my pre unibody 17" MBP

Phil

[jeff.grant@pobox.com]

Nick,

Just about any RAID 5 unit is going to have that problem. I have had a Linksys NSS4000 for a couple of years and the same applies to it. I am on the third one now, having had two replaced under warranty. I have started using My Book Studios which support RAID 1 and let you swap out a drive if one fails. $A500 for 1TB RAID1 or 2TB JBOD

[NickT]

I agree Jeff
This is why I don't recommend RAID but rather simple clones of drives. Macgurus also recommend this process.
Currently I run Time Machine and retrospect together and have a 5 bay that I'm waiting to connect to the MacPro for clones (need that new sonnet driver).
Nick-T

[Phil G]

I agree Jeff
This is why I don't recommend RAID but rather simple clones of drives. Macgurus also recommend this process.
Currently I run Time Machine and retrospect together and have a 5 bay that I'm waiting to connect to the MacPro for clones (need that new sonnet driver).
Nick-T

Hi Nick

Depending which Sonnet card you have new drivers have been released for "Tempo SATA E2P and Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 host controllers running Mac OS X. This version fixes an issue in Macintoshes with greater than 2GB of memory. This version also adds Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support."

http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=345&expand=_a3&action=b146#b146

and http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=341&expand=_a3_b384&action=b456#b456


Phil

[NickT]

Phil you are a legend!
Soon as I get through this crazy run of work I'll have a go and report back.
Many thanks
Nick-T

[NickT]

This version also adds Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support."

http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=341&expand=_a3_b384&action=b456#b456

Tried this one Phil and it says PowerPC only therefore no Snow Leopard...

[Phil G]

Sorry Nick missed your post

You will see I have posted solution on original thread

http://www.hasselbladdigitalforum.com/index.php/topic,681.0.html

I have it working on G5 Quad old Intel Mac Pro (quad) and 8 core Mac Pro

Phil