[G4] RAID on MDD was Large 2nd hard drive

[Carol]

Johns Maillist wrote:


> 
> Carol, it is just my opinion, but I added a pair of serial ATA 250's to 
> mine in a RAID (stripe) array.
> I am VERY happy with the video editing performance!
> Even if you just add one drive, I truly believe a serial ATA drive does 
> give better performance than a standard IDE drive.
> John
> 
>
Can you provide details?

If you added them, I guess serial ATA drives work in models that predate 
the G5.  The manual says I have room for 4 ATA drives.  Ultra ATA/100 
(in rear drive only) and two additional Ultra ATA drives in the front bay.

I don't understand whether it means that the only type of drive you can 
put it the rear bay is an Ultra ATA/100 or if it means that the only bay 
you can use for an Ultra ATA/100 is the rear bay.

I also don't know the difference between an ATA/66 and an ATA/100.

Which bays did you use for the RAID array?

I know what a RAID array is, but I would not have a clue about how to 
set one up.  Striped refers to making two disks function like one larger 
disk, isn't it?

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Carol