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Raid in Mac Pro - michael_s - 06-28-2007
Just unboxed a MacPro 3.0 quad. 8 g's ram.Two 500 gig drives.
I thought I read on the board something about setting the drives as a raid to increase performance, but didn't pay much attention because I didn't have this machine at the time.
Anyone know anything about this?
Re: Raid in Mac Pro - Harbourmaster - 06-28-2007
LEADER!
If those are the only drives you have then I would say no to a RAID. If 1 drive dies all your data is lost.
If your going to use those drives as a RAID then you need at least one more drive to use for Backups or as the boot drive.
Re: Raid in Mac Pro - Chupa Chupa - 06-28-2007
If you want to set it up go to the disk ultilities app in the utilities folder. A RAID 0 will combine two drives as one virtual drive. Best to only try this with "enterprise" rated hard drives. I would not do this with consumer grade HDs.
Re: Raid in Mac Pro - hal - 06-28-2007
RAID on! fear not!
Just back up like you always do...
I've got two 160gb 10k raptors RAID 0'ed on my G5 and it just flies!
Best written answer to your question is in the manual I think. It's VERY simple to set up.
Re: Raid in Mac Pro - Mike V - 06-28-2007
Won't you only get a speed increase if you use a hardware RAID card?
Won't software based RAID control result in slower perfance than a single drive?
Re: Raid in Mac Pro - Mike V - 06-28-2007
Oops wrong thread.