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Software Raid 10.2
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Posted 02 November 2002 - 07:29 PM
I am using a IMac 350 running 10.2 with a 100Gb harddrive as a windows/mac file server, my ? is can i take a 100Gb ext hard drive (USB) and set it up so i can use the built in raid software to make a raid 1
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Posted 02 November 2002 - 08:05 PM
There's a few things "wrong" here.
1) You're running Mac OS X Server 10.2 on a 350MHz iMac? Are you insane?
2) The built-in RAID software for Mac OS X Server 10.2 does not support building RAID arrays between drives on disparate buses (one drive on internal bus, one drive on external bus). You'd have to use a 3rd party product like Anubis RAID Toolkit from Charismac to accomplish a "cross-bus" RAID. And if you "can" do this, it's not recommended.
3) A USB HD!? The data rate on this drive is severely hampered by the low thoroughput rate of the USB interface. Trying to build a RAID with a USB-based HD (or two USB HD's, for instance) would be a pretty unworkable solution for a RAID.
If you really want to build a RAID so you have redundancy, you should get two identical firewire HD's and mirror them in a Level 1 RAID using Charismac's Raid Toolkit. Make it a completely external RAID instead of trying to bridge across two buses, particularly one that's USB.
Alternatively (and for backup purposes, not for RAID), you could use blank>this recently-released freeware software to mirror one drive to another. But this is NOT a RAID array; it's a manual backup solution.
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Posted 02 November 2002 - 08:17 PM
Wow, Damien still comes around... cool.
In any event, I agree with him: a USB drive is way too slow to make this effort worth it. You won't reap any benefits.
I suggest you convert that USB drive to a Firewire drive by switching the casings.
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Posted 03 November 2002 - 04:49 AM
thanks guys ,
As for running 10.2 (jaguar) sorry should have gave you more info. (runs OK) . as for the raid it looks like not possible that ok can just hook up a copy software, all it will house is photoshop and accounting files images/icons/smile.gif
P.S. thank you for the site i look at it
Thanks jeff
[ 11-03-2002: Message edited by: Mac-Crusader ]
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