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mac pro multiple harddrives question?

dudeofblokes

dudeofblokes

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Nov 3, 2007
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carrickfergus, northern ireland, united kingdom
until my monitor arrives my new 8-core mac pro stills there and i have a question i need answered, so your help is welcomed

i have waiting 3 harddrives to fill up the final 3 bays, how will these show on the desktop? will they all go as 1 or will all four show up?

thanks in advance
 
I just installed two 750GB hard drives. Easiest computer upgrade ever.

I also played around with the built-in RAID utility in Disk Utility and it's super easy to use. I figured there's not really a point in having separate hard drives so I made it into one! (Unless the hard drives are for different people using the computer, or something like that)
 
321estrellas said:
I figured there's not really a point in having separate hard drives so I made it into one! )
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The point of multiple drives is speed.
You have apps, multimedia, misc. reads, writes, and the system itself running off one disk, and you can imagine the difference. It's all about physical mechanics.

That, and I presume you won't be able to run disk utility repair on any drives when you're logged in to your 2/3-piece startup-disk.
 
wpc33 said:
The point of multiple drives is speed.
You have apps, multimedia, misc. reads, writes, and the system itself running off one disk, and you can imagine the difference. It's all about physical mechanics.

That, and I presume you won't be able to run disk utility repair on any drives when you're logged in to your 2/3-piece startup-disk.
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Nah, my system, apps and multimedia are on my main, stock HD. The 2x750GB RAID drive is strictly going to be for Final Cut Studio media.

Though I am considering removing the RAID, because if one drive fails (let's pretend both are full) then I only lose half my stuff rather than all :eek:
 
Here are some names anyone can use for four hard drives in their Mac Pro:

Hyacinth, Violet, Daisy, and Rose.

Though I only have two drives in my Pro, forming a JBOD of 1.5 terabytes.
 
Yeah, you definitely need to name your drives. I have six HD's (4 Internal and 2 external) and I have named them after the 6 Friends characters - my wife's favorite show and I just happened to have 6 drives needing to be named.
 
either:

1. they will show up on your desktop immediately

or

2. your MP will tell you it can't read/use the drives

if so, then:

A click the "initialize" button
B with 1 drive highlighted on the left,
C click "Erase" on the tab at the top
D then click "Erase" button on bottom right

drive should show up on your desktop (possibly as "Untitled")

repeat for all new drives that your computer doesn't recognize

IF it tells you it can't use the drives and you don't see an "Initialize" button next to "Eject", then open Disk Utility (click on the icon for your main hard drive (boot drive), open Applications, Utilities, Disk Utility)
and apply from step B. just make sure you don't have your boot/application drive highlighted.
if your drives still don't work, post again for help

best of luck :eek:
 
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