Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Henning. I'll double check on booting from a RAID disk. >At 1:22 PM -0400 8/28/06, Richard S. Taylor wrote: >>Brian - The iMac G5 does have USB 2.0 but I have not been >>considering it because I'd need to buy a USB hub to run the drives >>(all my USB ports are full). In any case, I have now found >>Western Digital drives (and I assume there must be LaCie and Maxor, >>drives, too) that have two FireWire ports so my first issue has >>gone away. >> >>Apple has made setting up RAID configurations easy in Disk Utility >>and I'll use that to set the system up. >> >>From recent posts, it seems someone has had trouble with drives >>from all the majors (including me with LaCie) so which brand to buy >>is a toss up and I may just do it by price and availability. >> >>I think I remember you saying you liked the Seagate drives and I >>will look into those. >> >>Am still wrestling with whether or not to move my bootable backup >>volume onto the RAID 1 array or leave it where it is on a separate >>disc. > >I don't think you can boot off the RAID. My setup is to have one >internal boot disk, mirrored onto an external firewire 400 disk of >the same size. Then I have a two disk striped RAID for intermediate >files and swap files. Data goes on external drives, whether firewire >or USB2. > >The other issue is whether or not you can boot off USB2 drives. The >other thing is that Firewire 400 still is faster on my machine by >1.2 to 1.5 times compared with USB2, let along Firewire 800. That >said, I just bought a couple of 250Gb drives in USB2 enclosures to >use as additional data storage; the price was too good to pass up. > >-- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Dick