MBP & Raid Array

[TMothy]

Heres what I have:

17" MBP i7 4GB Ram

Rosewill RSV-S5 5 Bay Enclosure

5x 1.5TB Segate HDD's

Sonnet's Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34


What I want to do is build a Raid 5 or Raid 10 array.

I can't find a definitive answer on weather its possible or not.

I heard that Mac OS's Disk Utility doesn't support raid 5 or raid 10.

So my next question Is there any software or hardware work-arounds that will MAKE this work?

 

[alust2013]

Heres what I have:

17" MBP i7 4GB Ram

Rosewill RSV-S5 5 Bay Enclosure

5x 1.5TB Segate HDD's

Sonnet's Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34


What I want to do is build a Raid 5 or Raid 10 array.

I can't find a definitive answer on weather its possible or not.

I heard that Mac OS's Disk Utility doesn't support raid 5 or raid 10.

So my next question Is there any software or hardware work-arounds that will MAKE this work?

I'm pretty sure disk utility does RAID 10, but you need an even number of drives for that. Check this out.

 

[TMothy]

I'm pretty sure disk utility does RAID 10, but you need an even number of drives for that.

Can anyone confirm this?

 

[Eddyisgreat]

I'm pretty sure disk utility does RAID 10, but you need an even number of drives for that. Check this out.

edit nm

 

[alust2013]

No, the disk utility can only do softraid level 0 and 1. You need hardware raid to do 5 and 0+1. Such as Apple's Enhanced RAID card.

Of course, you won't be able to take advantage of such options on the Macbook Pro.

Check out the link I posted. It shows how to combine RAID levels 1 and 0

 

[TMothy]

Thanks for your help.

It worked