yeah the live 0 set up is our live online edit, i back up to 7 tb raid 3, the raid 3 is intact i just have 1 folder which has all of my scans of old photos thats got some random issues i didnt know existed. visually the images look like a drive is unhealthy, but the led's on the tower don't report anything and the pre boot check disk doesnt report any bad sectors but again something looks off. if anyone knows how to diagnose these things you can swing by if you are so inclined to help a brotha out.
i actually hope one drive on the raid is faulty so i can swap it and be done with it. rather than manually check through 5.5tb of files.
oh and the mac...jigga please. i wasnt paying 16k just for the damn box. built my own frankenstein for 2k. the raid 0 is a dice roll but other than that 11tb storage inside, intel 3.5 and 24 gigs of ram for 2k, 2 decent video cards for 2k is hard to pass up