On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Dana Collins wrote: > I have such an arrangement, Kris. What recommendations re: a RAID > utility to > use can be made? > Quite curious.
Use Disk Utility. Disk Utility has supported RAID since Tiger, perhaps even in Panther? When you highlight a HD in Disk Utility, select the RAID tab, and then the Options button for the three options: RAID 0 striped (fastest, nearly doubling HD access speeds, but MTBF is higher); RAID 1 mirrored (makes immediate backup, not much use if something ruins your System because both will be bad, but if you have a HD failure of your boot HD, the backup should be OK); or Concatenated (spanned) which makes two drives appear as one large HD, also bad for failure because either HD failure ruins the set. I've used a striped RAID pair for over a year now with no problems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
