On 1/21/09 1:22 PM, Kris Tilford of [email protected] sent
>
> 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.
Thanks, Kris!
Excellent suggestion.
Dana
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