At 9:52 AM -0800 2/4/2011, John Carmonne wrote:
They are individual, five Hitachi 2TB drives 3 with the aid of a Jive Five bracket. The Raid array's seem to not appeal to my limited expeirence on the subject
RAID arrays can be intimidating, but they're a nice way to aggregate storage into one pool. Depending on how you configure them, you can create just a bigger volume, or something that has some redundancy in it - for better data protection in case a mechanism fails.
I think Wikipedia has a nice description of the various types of RAID. - 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
