[MacDV] Advice on setting up a RAID.

[Mark M. Florida]

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


> Howdy!
> 
> I would like to set up a twin-drive RAID-0 (I think) in my G4/533DP,
> for video editing use, but I don't know quite where to start.  So, I
> was wondering what folks here would suggest as far as controller card
> and drives are concerned.  I'd like to keep things under U$400.00 and,
> of course, am keenly interested in solutions offering the most bang for
> the buck.
> 
> I would be running this setup primarily under OS-X 10.2.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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