[X-Unix] Hardware RAID Setup

Alexandre Gauthier alex at underwares.org
Thu May 13 06:59:26 PDT 2010


Le 2010-05-13 09:54, Martin McCormick a écrit :
> Alexandre Gauthier writes:
>    
>> I am still curious as to if these manipulations create a software raid
>> array through OS X, or if that somehow hooks in the hardware and does it
>> there...
>>      
> 	It is done in hardware. Now you see 1 single drive
> instead of 2 drives. The RAID card has the write-through cache
> and even a keep-alive battery so that the RAM in the cache
> behaves in a non-volitle manner unless, of course, the battery
> is allowed to discharge such as if the system were shut down for
> some extended time period.
>    
Well that clears it up. Thanks! :)


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