Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'm really hoping that somebody chimes in on this because I have the same question. Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external, whatever you have. Mirroring is mirroring, so this means if you screw up the software

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Carter
: Wed, July 14, 2010 1:30:05 PM Subject: Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives? On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 14, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: which has the advantage of going backwards in time to get to a state that was known good. Theoretically this makes a Time Machine backup more robust and preferable to a mirror RAID backup. I like both. RAID and TM backups. Jeff Engle --

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
At 12:42 PM -0700 7/13/2010, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 14, 12:40 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'm really hoping that somebody chimes in on this because I have the   same question. Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external,   whatever you have.

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 14, 12:43 pm, Albert Carter slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com wrote: All,     I got interested so I started googling. Here's something that I found that may or may not be helpful: http://66.49.144.193/C2011481421/E20060221212020/index.html Ah, good link. Thank you. That was just what I

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread glen
Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external, whatever you have. Mirroring is mirroring, so this means if you screw up the software so that it won't boot, the mirror will also be screwed up. This should not be an issue, as the only thing on the mirrors