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RAID Enclosure Setup

jjk454ss

jjk454ss

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Jul 10, 2008
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I've never had a RAID enclosure, but I'm looking to upgrade my storage. If I pickup a 4 bay enclosure, can I use 2 or 3 HDDs in Raid, then have the 4th HDD as a seperate drive completely? I'm thinking I would use the 2 or 3 for storage, and have a 4th as a time machine backup.

Is this possible, or are the drives all going to have to be one?
 
Three out of 4 drives sounds like RAID 0 for faster read/write speed. If you are wanting RAID 1 for mirroring, then you need even numbers of drives defined in the RAID 1 set.

So RAID 0 or RAID 1?
 
I picked up a cheap 2 bay. It came with no info, can in just set ip up with disk utility? Should OSX see 2 drives automatically? I'm kind of lost on how to set it up as whichever RAID option I choose.
 
Mac.User said:
I have 2 from SANS Digital. They are pricy but really good quality.
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How much? I think I need to put myself in further debt so I can actually edit in real time on my machine :mad: Last RAID I used was 3 SATAIII to USB cords hooked to 160GB WD 2.5"'s wasn't amazing performance but it worked well... :D :D
 
nateo200 said:
How much? I think I need to put myself in further debt so I can actually edit in real time on my machine :mad: Last RAID I used was 3 SATAIII to USB cords hooked to 160GB WD 2.5"'s wasn't amazing performance but it worked well... :D :D
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Think about $130 They use hardware raid so you can plug them into any machine and still have your RAID be usable. I use 2 drive ones that have RAID0 and RAID 1 options
 
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