BTW: For those wanting to experiment with RAID, Mac OS X's Disk Utility includes the ability to configure drives in RAID 0, RAID 1 or as Concatenated RAID Set configuration. I'm no RAID expert, but it would seem that a Power Mac G5 or a Mac Pro with multiple internal drives would make for a pretty good RAID system environment with some performance benefits. RAID configuration not confined to internal drives either ... I imagine an interesting RAID configuration could be made from daisy chained FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 drives too.
If you'd like to know more about it, start up Disk Utility (in the Applications/Utility folder), choose Help from the menu bar, and search on RAID. There is fairly complete information provided on what the options are, how they work and what kind of configuration benefits what use, etc. One of these days, in my copious free time, I'll have to give it a shot... Godfrey On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote: > In terms of keeping a RAID system going with minimal maintenance this > might be worth a thought: > http://www.drobo.com/ > I've no direct experience, but it looks like it handles all the > configuration and management automatically without you needing to > spend ages setting it up. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
