Hi Donal First, I have to say that I didn't find the Promise Raid utility particularly helpful in regards accessibility. But if you want loads of space, I suggest you leave it at its defaults but unless you feel you need additional RAID options. If yours is still the same as it was when we bought ours, I think it's set to RAID5 by default. Mirroring and striped, from memory. If you're prepared to trust in the fact that your drives are new and, thus, shouldn't fail on you in a while, maybe you might want to change it to RAID0 which will, I think, give you the most data storage.
But whatever you do, make sure you use Thunderbolt, rather than Firewire 1394B or USB. The difference in terms of speed is amazing. Gordon On 7 Aug 2012, at 22:50, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Gordon, I'll be honest I've only bothered to unpack it about 2 days ago. I'm trying to decide how best to configure it to facilitate backing up multiple macs, and also to enable plenty of space for data storage. Any thoughts? Thanks as ever, Dónal On 7 Aug 2012, at 22:48, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Donal > > Yes, we use one of these drives on our server. What is it you're having > problems with? > > Gordon > > On 7 Aug 2012, at 15:26, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > In a moment of rash madness I bought one of these things (for work not > personal use I'm not that nuts) last year. It's one of the 6-bay models. > From a data transfer perspective it is very good but I'm not using it to its > optimum. > > Is anyone else using one of these things and how have you configured it? > Basically I want to use it to backup several macs and maybe to also store > some data and that's about it. > > Incidentally, I wouldn't rush out to get one of these things. Believe it or > not, it *seems* to come with an old RS232 port, though I could be wrong. > > Dónal > Dónal Fitzpatrick > [email protected] > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > > This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. > > [email protected] > > Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess > > <---> > > > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Gordon Smith ---> This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess <---> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
