On 21 Jun 2004, at 12:06, Richard Earney wrote:
I use a couple of Maxtor 250 GB drives on a G5.
I admit I haven't set them up for RAID, but I would use the Apple Formatting tools which allow you to set up RAIDs, rather than 3rd party software. If I were to get a couple more drives ever, that is what I would do.
Dear Richard, I have used Apples software for creating a mirrored RAID on two LACIE 400GB Big Discs but Lacie do NOT advise this. They say that if a volume or catalogue is corrupted then it will be mirrored on both. As I have just has to remove a mirrored SW array and all my images on it after a sudden system error, (thankfully copied to another drive first), I can see what they are saying.
There is also a STRIPED array option. Does anyone know how this works please before I make another mistake of following Apple's options??
If not, I have two identical separate discs. What is the best way to use these for sensible image storage please?
TIA
Glyn
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