OS 10.5 Mac RAID software?

[buxtone17]

I just purchased a pair of external hard drives for redundant backup and was wondering if using the RAID software (for RAID-1) that comes on all Macs is a good idea.

Has anyone used this software before? Is it reliable?

 

[The General]

Are they both the same size? I used a software RAID on Tiger to make a RAID 5 out of three 750GB drives and it worked great for a long time, then I got rid of the computer.

 

[buxtone17]

They're both 500GB OWC drives.

 

[blodwyn]

You should be good to go then. I've found it to work reliably. Don't forget to check now and then to make sure both drives are still healthy.

 

[blodwyn]

Are they both the same size? I used a software RAID on Tiger to make a RAID 5 out of three 750GB drives and it worked great for a long time, then I got rid of the computer.

I didn't know OS X would do RAID 5

 

[The General]

I didn't know OS X would do RAID 5

You're right, my initial plan was to do RAID 5, but then I found out I couldn't do that so I set them up in RAID 0.

 

[sidewinder]

You're right, my initial plan was to do RAID 5, but then I found out I couldn't do that so I set them up in RAID 0.

Wow, you went from trying to use a RAID level that would provide protection from any single drive failure to one that increased your chance a total data loss by a factory of 3 compared to no RAID was used.

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