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WHAT?!?!?!?
You bought three 1TB drives from APPLE?!?!?!? Man, you must REALLY love throwing money right out the window.
So lets see... you paid $550 x 3 = 1,650.00 for three 1TB drives that you could have paid $279.00 each for. Congratulations, you just threw over $800 out the window, literally.
As for the RAM, well you threw away a lot more.
The best thing to do is buy your Mac Pro and upgrade nothing but the CPU, graphics card, Airport, Keyboard and mouse. Get everything else from a third party.
OWC is a highly trusted company and I would buy just about anything from them (and I have bought just about everything they sell at some point in time).
Get the Mac Pro with stock RAM, stock hard drive, Airport (if you need it) and the 8800 GT. Then load it down with hard drives and RAM from OWC.
OWC is a highly trusted company and I would buy just about anything from them (and I have bought just about everything they sell at some point in time).
Get the Mac Pro with stock RAM, stock hard drive, Airport (if you need it) and the 8800 GT. Then load it down with hard drives and RAM from OWC.
For the record, we weren't really bashing you - just trying to keep you from making a huge mistake 
-Bryan
-Bryan
Don't you also need to get a raid card if you want hardware raid solution...otherwise it will just be software. Is there a third party raid implementation?
I only mention this because you say you have never used raid before... Raid 1 can easily done using software rather than the raid card. Also, raid1 is no substitute for a good backup. If you screw up and accidentally delete something or a software problem corrupts some files, raid 1 does you no good. It is helpful to keep you operational if one of the two drives fails. It is more of a operational redundancy solution, not a file backup (time machine is a good file backup).
Also be aware that raid 0 effectively doubles your risk of data loss because when one drive fails you lose all the data on both. The payoff is the the increased speed.
Sorry if I'm telling you things you already know. Enjoy your new mac pro.
alright so when you raid to drives together with RAID 1 i wasn't sure if i would be seeing two drives or one...when it says mirror i think two identical drives...from what your telling it's one.
and maybe thats alright. i plan on having more space this stock drive so maybe i will backup the important data to that.
you see for audio i was thinking to to keep all my recordings and logic projects on these raided 1 drives. which would enhance performance and streaming, help data loss, and i was figuring it mirror it so i would have a backup...enlighten me please
about the RAID 0 drive i am not worried about data loss on that i have the sampler instruments in other places, i am just wanting speed and performance there.
and maybe thats alright. i plan on having more space this stock drive so maybe i will backup the important data to that.
you see for audio i was thinking to to keep all my recordings and logic projects on these raided 1 drives. which would enhance performance and streaming, help data loss, and i was figuring it mirror it so i would have a backup...enlighten me please
about the RAID 0 drive i am not worried about data loss on that i have the sampler instruments in other places, i am just wanting speed and performance there.
a mirror is is exactly what you said, two identical drives that appear as one. Have you ever gone to open a file and it either was missing or corrupted? Raid 1 wouldn't help because the drives are identical. Same thing if you experience some sort of electrical catastrophe, since they are both in the case (that happened to a server one one of my environmental monitoring systems).
The only thing that can save you in that case is a periodic backup, preferably to an external drive. After my server meltdown, the only thing that saved me was a backup server located in a different building, on a completely separate tie-line to the grid (obviously an extreme case because it is federally required data, and hardware failures don't excuse violations).
My backup strategy: external 1tb raid 1 used for periodic backup, another small external for a third copy of photos, and finally approx. semi-annual DVD backups of some files. I'm paranoid about losing memories.
The only thing that can save you in that case is a periodic backup, preferably to an external drive. After my server meltdown, the only thing that saved me was a backup server located in a different building, on a completely separate tie-line to the grid (obviously an extreme case because it is federally required data, and hardware failures don't excuse violations).
My backup strategy: external 1tb raid 1 used for periodic backup, another small external for a third copy of photos, and finally approx. semi-annual DVD backups of some files. I'm paranoid about losing memories.