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I have a MacPro 2.66 that I want to set up a three or four drive raid.
My boot disk is now the standard 250gb WD drive that came with the base system.
I have added a maxtor 500gb Sata 3gbs drive in the second drive bay.
I also have a LaCie 500gb firewire 800 external.
My thoughts are to purchase two more of the maxtor drives to match the one I have.
Create a striped raid across the three maxtors (with one used as the boot drive). Put the 250gb drive in the fourth drive bay and use it as a scratch disk for photoshop CS2 and CS3 beta.
I would use the 500gb LaCie as a back up drive.
Is this a good workable design?
Also. what about using disk utilities or does anyone have an opinion on softraid software, to set up and maintain the raid?
Thanks,
My boot disk is now the standard 250gb WD drive that came with the base system.
I have added a maxtor 500gb Sata 3gbs drive in the second drive bay.
I also have a LaCie 500gb firewire 800 external.
My thoughts are to purchase two more of the maxtor drives to match the one I have.
Create a striped raid across the three maxtors (with one used as the boot drive). Put the 250gb drive in the fourth drive bay and use it as a scratch disk for photoshop CS2 and CS3 beta.
I would use the 500gb LaCie as a back up drive.
Is this a good workable design?
Also. what about using disk utilities or does anyone have an opinion on softraid software, to set up and maintain the raid?
Thanks,
