29 Oct
2009
29 Oct
'09
8:15 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:07:22PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
If I can find a cheap enough RAID Card that wil fit the Mac Pro, I would do hardware RAID, but Apple wants $699 for theirs...
$699 is pretty steep, but RAID cards are not cheap. They are worth it for performance though.
If you don't need absolute performance, software RAID will work.
Give with multiple smaller drives instead of two larger ones.
Agreed on this one. The bigger drives are great, but even in a mirror rebuild scenario the time to re-sync just gets longer and longer. More risk!
$700, eesh. You can get some nice Areca cards for much less than that.
Ray