On 03/03/2005, at 12:06 PM, Rod wrote:
Disk Utility in OS X has the ability to make a software raid. As for
hardware, either a card or an Xserve raid box ;-)
Seeya
Rod!
As someone who has had to deal with RAID quite a bit over the last
couple of years, I can offer a few suggestions that have a lot of
experience.
Software RAID - Great for mirroring, don't trust it for striping.
That said... The wamug server currently has 3 250GB drives striped
using the built in raid tools. The difference here is that I don't care
if it gets corrupted because it's just a mirror of a heap of other web
sites that can be easily rebuilt by running a single script. I would
not trust if for data that I actually cared about.
PCI Hardware RAID Card - Great if you have the physical space.
You can get cards that have three SATA ports on the which is great for
creating a RAID 5 volume. These are only good though if you have a G4
that has a spot to put the drives.
External NAS / SAN device.
Something like this http://www.wiebetech.com/products/rt5.php
Cheaper than an XServe RAID and uses a Firewire interface. Nice and
reliable and also portable.
Hardware RAID Device - XServe RAID
Simply put, you get what you pay for. These things rock. I use one here
at work and it is the best thing since sliced bread.
- Matt
