Jerry you can not use different size hard drives in a Raid situation. I would use all the same model drive to make sure there was not errors in writing to the disk caused by drive buffers.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:macgroup-bounces at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Freeman Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:56 AM To: Macintosh topics Subject: Re: [MacGroup] mirrored raid questions. thanks ward, my sneaking suspicion is your evaluation is correct, no raid on this setup. best...jf On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Ward Oldham wrote: > Hey Jerry, > > Well, I'll get the ball rolling but I have very limited experience > with RAID, both within a given cpu and XServe RAID. > > But from what experience I do have, I was unaware that you could > configure a RAID with hard drives whose physical sizes differ. And I'm > not aware that even if you create partitions of identical size on two > dissimilar drives can you configure these partitions as a RAID. > > So obviously, this picture needs further clarification before you > proceed further. Because if I am right, you're looking at buying a > couple more new drives. > > I hope I'm wrong. > > Ward _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
