Hi Donal No, there's no USB on our new model, sorry about that. I mentioned that because the first one we bought does have this option. I just looked at the new one and you're right, there's no USB.
Gordon On 7 Aug 2012, at 23:19, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: Gordon, I'm not even sure there is a USB on it, unless the port on the drive doubles as both thunderbolt and USB? I'd doubt this but I'm certainly no expert. I have it at raid 5 at the minute but I agree 0 is also an option. I presume you're not using time machine to back up? Dónal On 7 Aug 2012, at 23:15, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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