Re: OT: RAID 0+1 in a Software RAID Environment

2008-10-19 Thread dc
I actually did something similar in my G5 several months ago. I added 3 additional SATA drives using a Sonnet Jive carrier, used Apple Disk Utility to partition the drives and establish a RAID 0 striped array of 1 TB using 3 of the partitions; a fourth was set as a RAID 1 mirrored partition, it

Re: OT: RAID 0+1 in a Software RAID Environment

2008-10-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 17, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Al Poulin wrote: In short, the goal of this setup is to stripe the boot and the home partitions, yet provide a non-striped disk partition to which they mirror for backup. I haven't set up a RAID using Disk Utility for a long time, but IIRC, the RAID setup is

OT: RAID 0+1 in a Software RAID Environment

2008-10-17 Thread Al Poulin
I know a few of you may have fun weighing in on an interesting proposal and a few implied questions. My son sent this to me, asking for a relay to folks who can help. My Apple Mail was initially set to Helvetica font, so I first copied his message to TextEdit to view the graphic in