That certainly sucks, but thank god the new mobo was able to reuse the existing raid arrays. i have heard anecdotal horror stories about firmware mismatches causing issues with this. not a fun situation, but it could have been worse i guess.
how is your house cleanup going?
The roof has been sealed up, and the place is nearly back to normal.
Yeah, one RAID was on a hardware card, it came back fine, the mobo RAID didn’t come back, the one HDD failure killed it. It was a 7 drive array, so packing that up and sending it to data recovery, with no guarantees, and unable to use the machine in the meantime, I’m not sure it is worth it. I have the ProRes of that reel, so I think I will just work from it.
The memory is a pain, it drops me back to 32GB which isn’t enough to work in 4K with my restoration software, so I’m looking at that now. So far the total damage from the PC looks like being around $800 or so, which isn’t the end of the world. The lost time and work is frustrating though.
As I can’t render, I’m going to go through and ‘GOUT Sync’ the scans I have, i.e. put a “MISSING FOOTAGE” frame placeholder into all of the frames that are missing from the frames compared to the GOUT. That should make it easier down the track to keep everything synched and far easier to insert footage from other scans etc. where required. It also means timelines will align between multiple scans from different prints, which I think could be handy.