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Sidewinder: Post 41, paragraph 4.

I went for personal contact, as it's caused confusion for me before. So I kept details aimed at the specific individuals application. Personal contact seemed the best way. As I said earlier, I found phone calls to work best, as more information can be conveyed, and answer specifics as they arise.

Rather simple, but yes, other members will miss out. I decided posting on the forum may make more of a mess than if I didn't.

The logic may have been erroneous, but I figured those in the process of implementing will ask anyway. Just look at the number of threads that get started over the issues of RAID. ;) Unlike other threads, where they really are a repeat of the same information, there's enough differences I will look, and make posts.

At some point, I usually send a PM. This is how I usually manage to get the information needed to help (more details).

Maybe a strange way to do it, but it seems to work.
 
How about this configuration?

Drive Bay 1 Boot Partition for Windows 7 (maybe using an SSD)
Drive Bay 2 Boot Partition for Mac OSX with Intel X25-M (with mount)
Drive Bay 3 Disk 1 of 2 for RAID 0 Mac OSX working files (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
Drive Bay 4 Disk 2 of 2 for RAID 0 Mac OSX working files (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)

Drive Bay 5 (maxupgrade) Disk 1 of 2 for RAID 0 Time Machine (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
Drive Bay 6 (maxupgrade) Disk 2 of 2 for RAID 0 Time Machine (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
 
How about this configuration?

Drive Bay 1 Boot Partition for Windows 7 (maybe using an SSD)
Drive Bay 2 Boot Partition for Mac OSX with Intel X25-M (with mount)
Drive Bay 3 Disk 1 of 2 for RAID 0 Mac OSX working files (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
Drive Bay 4 Disk 2 of 2 for RAID 0 Mac OSX working files (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)

Drive Bay 5 (maxupgrade) Disk 1 of 2 for RAID 0 Time Machine (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
Drive Bay 6 (maxupgrade) Disk 2 of 2 for RAID 0 Time Machine (1.0 TB WD WD10EADS)
May I ask if you understand the different types of RAID and the corresponding pros and cons?

I'm not a fan of RAID 0, as it has more risk than a single drive. Certainly not recommended for a backup solution. Just too unstable to use as your last resort IMO.

It would help if you give as much detail as you can. Particularly with:
1. What are you doing
2. # of drives/type of drives (consumer, enterprise*, SAS, SATA,...)
3. type of array considered (other than 0)
4. physical location of drives, including any external
5. hardware or software implementation

Details are needed to really get an idea of how to even begin.

*recommended
 
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