Software For Striping. AJA KONA 2

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Software For Striping

AJA recommends the Disk Utility software provided by Apple with OS X for creating and striping RAIDs, including 3rd-party, SCSI, and Xserve RAIDs. It is very easy to use and has been tested to work well. The utility can be found in

Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities, where “Macintosh HD” is the name of the system drive.

AJA KONA 2 and Xserve RAID

For the optimum in disk storage with Final Cut Pro 4.5HD and AJA KONA 2, we recommend Apple’s Xserve RAID. Xserve RAID holds up to 14 hot-swap Apple

Drive Modules—5.6TB of storage—in a rack-optimized 3U enclosure. Each 7200-

RPM hard drive connects to a dedicated ATA/100 drive channel, eliminating a traditional source of bottlenecks and maximizing the 2Gb/s Fibre Channel host connection(s). By adding more Xserve RAID systems, you’ll have very large expansion capabilities: A standard 42U rack can hold over 78TB of Xserve RAID storage.

Xserve RAID is designed for nonstop operation. Redundant hot-swap power and cooling modules allow the system to keep functioning even if one module fails. A high-availability architecture and dual independent RAID controllers support

RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 0+1. In addition, Xserve RAID supports hybrid RAID levels 10, 30, and 50 when used in conjunction with host-based software RAID.

Remote Xserve RAID management capabilities are provided via Apple’s Java-based

RAID Admin application.

Note: When creating and striping an Xserve RAID for KONA 2 using the Apple

Disk Utility provided with OS X, use RAID 50: in other words, the internal Xserve

RAID drives are set up as RAID 5; the Xserve RAID then shows up in Disk Utility as two drives (regardless of the number of internal drives) which must be configured together as RAID 0. Apple calls this configuration “RAID 50.”