Hey Jerry, Well, I'll get the ball rolling but I have very limited experience with RAID, both within a given cpu and XServe RAID.
But from what experience I do have, I was unaware that you could configure a RAID with hard drives whose physical sizes differ. And I'm not aware that even if you create partitions of identical size on two dissimilar drives can you configure these partitions as a RAID. So obviously, this picture needs further clarification before you proceed further. Because if I am right, you're looking at buying a couple more new drives. I hope I'm wrong. Ward On Jul 1, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > i'm trying to setup a mirrored raid, to be 'smart' backed up and > scheduled by superduper, and i'm confused. > > 1. will my setup work for mirrored raid, or do the volumes need the > exact equivalent partitions on the raid? my two spare drives > available for raid are 320G each, and the combined total of the > volumes is 415G. do i have to re-partition drive-1: volume-1 40G + > volume-2 30G + volume-4 250G = 320G total? that would be a bother. > > 2. do both drives on a raid need to be partitioned the same? > > my G5 10.4x setup: > > drive-1: 165G > > volume-1: boot 52G, > volume-2: projects 113G > > drive-2: 250G > > volume-3: scratch disk 8G (not backed up). > volume-4: photography-1 242G > > available drives for mirrored raid: > > drive-3: 320G > drive-4: 320G > > tia. best...jf > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
