[G4] SCSI RAID for dummies?

[Brian Conner]

Then you don't need to spend that much money, unless you are also using an
uncompressed capture card, like the KonaSD. For DV, all you need is an
ATA100 7200rpm IDE drive installed as a 2nd drive.

If you want to stripe two IDE drives inside your MDD G4 in a RAID0, you can
do that with Drive Utility. In fact, some have successfully striped four IDE
drives using the ATA100 & ATA66 busses in the MDD G4 to get nearly 100MB/sec
out of the RAID0 stripe. To do this properly, you should install an ATA133
PCI controller, install your boot drive up in the 2nd optical bay using
5.25/3.5 drive brackets and connect it to the ATA133 controller.

But seriously, unless you need uncompressed video, you don't need SCSI.


Brian Conner


-----Original Message-----
From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
Behalf Of josh hough
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:04 AM
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: Re: [G4] SCSI RAID for dummies?


On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:18 PM -0500 sr ferenczy wrote:
> one question, what is your reasoning for going with a scsi raid?

As a high-performance scratch disk for photo and video editing (mostly 
Photoshop and FinalCut).
-josh


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