Striped RAID on macbook pro

[trismeplz]

Hey guys,

I've placed an order for a new macbook pro and decided to go with the 2 hard disk route via optibay and was wondering would it be possible to RAID the two harddisk together.

I have never done RAID before so apologies for the noob question. I googled and found that you don't necessarily need two of the same harddisk and is it possible to RAID the stock Apple SSD with a Seagate 7200.4 or should I just keep them seperate?

Any advice is much appreciated!

 

[cmaier]

Hey guys,

I've placed an order for a new macbook pro and decided to go with the 2 hard disk route via optibay and was wondering would it be possible to RAID the two harddisk together.

I have never done RAID before so apologies for the noob question. I googled and found that you don't necessarily need two of the same harddisk and is it possible to RAID the stock Apple SSD with a Seagate 7200.4 or should I just keep them seperate?

Any advice is much appreciated!

You can raid them together pretty easily (as long as you don't need bootcamp). I'd avoid raiding an ssd to a hard drive, though. THe SSD is fast enough, first of all, so what's the point? You'd probably actually end up slowing down the average read/write time.

 

[trismeplz]

Thanks for the quick reply and I kinda thought as much I'll be using bootcamp so I guess it would be best to just split the two up...

 

[johnnj]

Actually, it is possible to run Bootcamp on a pair of striped disks. You just can't run Windows from the RAID0 volume itself.

I posted a how-to on this back in March.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/676856/

John