[MacDV] Re: Advice on setting up a RAID.

[Gerhard Kuhn]

I don't believe I can remember a hard-drive going bad at least not 
since the days my drives have been larger than 40 MB (and that is long 
way back).  I do agree with you though, that since hard drives today 
are plenty fast for video, the RAID set up is not necessary.

Gerhard
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 11:39  AM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> Unless you're working with uncompressed video, RAID is overkill for DV.
>
> You're really better off using two separate drives.  Think about this 
> -- if
> you have a RAID, and one drive fails, you lose *ALL* of the data on 
> *BOTH*
> drives, but if you have two separate drives and one fails then you 
> only lose
> *HALF* of your data.  If you get 2 60 GB drives for a RAID, and a 120 
> GB
> drive to back those up to, then your data will be protected (as long 
> as you
> remember to back up regularly).  You should be able to do that for 
> less than
> $400, but then you still only get 120 GB of total storage (remember 
> that 120
> GB drive is a *backup* of the two 60 GB RAID) -- and since you're 
> using Mac
> OS X 10.2, you can just use the software RAID built in to the OS 
> (accessible
> through Disk Utility).
>
> If I were you, I'd get two 120 GB drives and just connect them to the 
> G4's
> IDE bus, and forget about the RAID.
>
> - Mark