At 1:27 PM -0400 9/23/08, Len Gerstel wrote: >On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:00 PM, diane wrote: > >Not having experience with mirroring on a day to day machine (but all >my servers have mirrored drives) this is just an fairly educated guess. > >First of all, a single 500GB (or larger) SATA drive on a sata card is >definitely going to be faster and speed up your system compared to >the 120GB drive you have now. I have a 120GB on the internal ATA and >a 500GB on a SATA card on my DA.
Thanks for that first hand info! :) >The slowdown will come from the mirroring. How much depends on >whether you let Mac OS handle it (slower, but cheaper) or buy a SATA >card that does hardware mirroring (faster with just a little >performance hit, but more expensive). I am not sold on the mirroring, I would also consider a backup right to the internal. I just like some redundancy. This machine has been rock solid for the 5 years I've owned it. OTOH I have a Yikes! that has been nothing but trouble even with a new system board. I keep a spare drive in that for such emergencies, it's at my PT job now and I never know what people do to it. >My thought to save marriage points: > >Put a 500GB (or 750GB) inside on a SATA card and get an external NAS >drive as shared storage and for any of your older projects that can >be moved to slower storage. He was actually thinking of Time Capsule, but we could do rack-mounted Linux drives as well. You know, when the house catches on fire, I can grab my cat and laptop at the same time. The desktop or my small external drives are second. Everything in a rack is more difficult. ;-) Thanks, Diane --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
