05-14-2006, 01:33 AM
If you're using OS X Tiger 10.4.6, Drive Setup can make a RAID 0 volume out of 4 external HDrives, but it won't be redundant, that is fail-safe backup. RAID 0 is what is known as "striped" drives. You make a RAID 0 volume for ultimate speed. It's the fastest drive setup there is, barring an optical/fibre channel setup. If you want redundancy, where if one HDrive fails, another HDrive can be inserted in its place and rebuilt with the same data that you "lost", you'll need to set up a RAID 1, or 5 system.
That being written, you don't have the equipment to set up a RAID, with 4 miniStacks. You want to have a 4-HDrive enclosure, not 4 separate enclosures. How are you planning to hook up all those HDrives? Answer, you can't unless they are daisy-chained together, in which case you cannot make a RAID out of such a setup.
You need to have 4 HDrives on the same bus, either external or internal. It can't be done with the equipment you have.
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That being written, you don't have the equipment to set up a RAID, with 4 miniStacks. You want to have a 4-HDrive enclosure, not 4 separate enclosures. How are you planning to hook up all those HDrives? Answer, you can't unless they are daisy-chained together, in which case you cannot make a RAID out of such a setup.
You need to have 4 HDrives on the same bus, either external or internal. It can't be done with the equipment you have.
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