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