On Dec 7, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Lawrence Sica <lom...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 7, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] > <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking forward to getting a new Mac Pro, which will require me to buy >> at least one external disk array. I have been looking at a 2-disk >> thunderbolt unit, which can be set up for either RAID 0 or RAID 1 (or JBOD). >> The vendor says that thunderbolt does not allow other RAID levels. > > This is simply not true. Thunderbolt is not the issue here. The problem is > that it is a 2 disk unit, this has nothing to do with TB itself. As an > example the pegasus units support 0,1,5,6,50. > > http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?m=192®ion=en-global&rsn1=40&rsn3=47 > > —Larry
Hi Larry, Thanks for your response. In fairness to the vendor, I was also looking at their 5-disk thunderbolt units. It was in reference to those that they said thunderbolt does not support RAID 5 or RAID 10. Sorry for the confusion. I was trying to keep my original message short, and in the process I forgot to include some relevant information. Nevertheless, it seems as if some vendors (such as the one you cited) do support various other RAID configurations with their thunderbolt arrays. What about my inquiry about trying to use Disk Utility to fashion my own RAID 10 from a pair of 2-disk units? Do you think that's possible? Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
