Cloud Pod-9 Drives attached-But cant connect RAIDs?

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Cloud Pod-9 Drives attached-But cant connect RAIDs?

PostTue Apr 02, 2024 2:02 am

OK BLACKMAGIC TECHS!!!! RIDDLE ME THIS!!!!

So as most know, RAIDs are not able to connect to the pod, but any single disk can via the 2-usb-c ports, multiple daisy-chained drives (I am up to 9) using multiple hubs to do it, but cannot even mount a simple 2 drive raid? THE CLOUD POD!!!!

OK Blackmagic, this is absolute nonsense!!!!! So it can spin up 2-3.5", 4-2.5" platters, and 3 SSD drives, but not a single 2-drive RAID! As seen in the pic below, that's now a whopping 26TB across 9 Drives! This is coo coo for coco puffs! Why is this and Blackmagic can you PLEASE address this? I get you want people to cough up money for your larger arrays, but why then release this if we can't take advantage of our existing architecture? I would like an actual official Blackmagic reply on this.

***Disclaimer***-I am not an ultra geek, and while I do understand there are differences in the formatting of a raid vs a simple exfat or MAC OS Journaled drive, beyond that I don't know much of the under-the-hood stuff. I do know that this IS possible and I am guessing it wouldn't be that difficult, if I'm wrong please forgive my ignorance and don't sacrifice me to the tech gods for it, lol.

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Re: Cloud Pod-9 Drives attached-But cant connect RAIDs?

PostFri Apr 05, 2024 4:50 am

So here is a fun little update if any of you are interested.

As long as it's ExFAT, at least a 2-drive RAID will work! I have a Western Digital My Book Duo, and its software allows an ExFAT 0 or 1-level RAID. Both levels work. I am unsure about the larger array as I only have access to this at the moment, but I will soon be making an upgrade to a larger NAS, not for this use, but it will free up a 6-bay NAS that I hope to test next. I will keep you all updated, but provided I can format ExFat, it in theory should work.

Cheers~

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