External Hard Drive Raid

[illegalprelude]

Hi you guys, I have an external 1TB WD hard drive hooked up via FireWire 800 and I heard if you set it as stripped raid, it would seek alot faster.

Well when I go under disk utility and click on it and go under the raid section, and set it to "Striped Raid Set", I cant click on create. Im assuming there is two 500GB hard drives in there so I can raid the two...

I dont really know exactly what Im doing so any help is appreciated

[Eidorian]

RAID 0 = BAD END

Make sure you know the data risks first for performance.

You're going to need more then one drive too.

[illegalprelude]

RAID 0 = BAD END

Make sure you know the data risks first for performance.

You're going to need more then one drive too.

yea, I just edited my comment, i believe the WD drive has two 500GB drives inside of it (I dont really know but I havent seen a pure 1TB drive out there and this thing is about 6 months old)

What do you mean by data risks? As in a higher failure rate?

[Eidorian]

yea, I just edited my comment, i believe the WD drive has two 500GB drives inside of it (I dont really know but I havent seen a pure 1TB drive out there and this thing is about 6 months old)

What do you mean by data risks? As in a higher failure rate?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_0#RAID_0

If your enclosure does have two disks then you might have to see if your enclosure can setup a RAID internally. It might appear externally as one drive.

Any idea if it's 2 x 500 GB or 2 x 1 TB drives?

Which WD drive do you have?

[iPhil]

Info on RAID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID) raid 0 is fast on seek but once you lose 1 drive in the chain then you lose all info in the chain ..

[illegalprelude]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_0#RAID_0

If your enclosure does have two disks then you might have to see if your enclosure can setup a RAID internally. It might appear externally as one drive.

Any idea if it's 2 x 500 GB or 2 x 1 TB drives?

Which WD drive do you have?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=267&language=en

this one is it...according to their site, you can setup raid on it...but under Utility, it shows just 1 hard drive there. (I just set it up for Time Machine but I ran into the same issue and screen before)

[Eidorian]

You're going to need to setup the internal RAID using Western Digital's utility.

Easy to set up, easy to use - You’re up and running in a few simple steps. RAID configuration is easy with WD’s intuitive RAID Wizard software

[illegalprelude]

You're going to need to setup the internal RAID using Western Digital's utility.

ahhh. I was under the impression that 10.5 could just raid any drives out there. Thanks for the info so far :)

[Eidorian]

ahhh. I was under the impression that 10.5 could just raid any drives out there. Thanks for the info so far :)It's more of an issue with your enclosure then Disk Utility.