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<blockquote data-quote="pgunter" data-source="post: 314819" data-attributes="member: 26311"><p>I agree with Digital. Having a second drive for backing up files and folders is a great bonus. You could even use it as a fresh install of OS X and then if your first drive goes down, you can boot from the spare. Also if you update and it has a problem you still have a working computer. I have a G4 with four drives installed. OS9 OSX ver 10.2 10.3 and now 10.4. My main machine, a G4 used as a server has three drives. Again two are for the system and the large 500GB is split into three volumes for files. </p><p></p><p>As for RAID, you really need 6 drives for a true raid, set up as 5 + 1 where if any one drive fails the system rebuilds using the +1 spare. Using 2 is really only good for mirror set ups where the second drive is an exact copy of the first.</p><p></p><p>Hope it helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pgunter, post: 314819, member: 26311"] I agree with Digital. Having a second drive for backing up files and folders is a great bonus. You could even use it as a fresh install of OS X and then if your first drive goes down, you can boot from the spare. Also if you update and it has a problem you still have a working computer. I have a G4 with four drives installed. OS9 OSX ver 10.2 10.3 and now 10.4. My main machine, a G4 used as a server has three drives. Again two are for the system and the large 500GB is split into three volumes for files. As for RAID, you really need 6 drives for a true raid, set up as 5 + 1 where if any one drive fails the system rebuilds using the +1 spare. Using 2 is really only good for mirror set ups where the second drive is an exact copy of the first. Hope it helps. [/QUOTE]
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