At 10:19 PM +0100 10/16/2009, Mike wrote: >dual 1.25 ghz firewire800, with 2gigs of ram ... Leopard. > >assuming I get [atto ul3d pci scsi card & raid] working, I'll be >running two of the disks as a raid 0, mainly just to have a roomier >boot volume (two 36gb drives better than one), and any performance >gain would just be a bonus.
I've read that you can raid 0 your boot volume; never seen it. IMO, it's not a good plan - there are just too many ways that systems get screwed up. Adding the problem of having your data spread out across multiple spindles (raid 0, data striping)... what a debug nightmare. Just leave your boot volume alone, on the internal ide bus. If you see, with Activity Monitor, that your i/o demand is swamping it, then *maybe* consider moving the swapfiles. (Except for doing some real-time data capture WHILE encoding, in a single-drive configuration, I've never seen OS X truly swamp out its boot volume). Use your raid array for your user big data, high-demand video work, etc etc etc. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
