[X4U] Leopard Features

[Jim Scott]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> This isn't a sarcastic comment, but how is that different from what  
> is already present in Disk Utility, under the Raids tab?
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> Michael
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
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>> Mac Pro towers, with their 4 drive bays and capability of handling  
>> 2 terabytes of data storage (at present hard drive sizes) will be  
>> RAID-configurable by Leopard from the git-go. Leopard might even  
>> offer that option to home users who wish to daisy-chain external  
>> hard drives themselves. This probably is one of the "secrets"  
>> Steve Jobs was smiling about.
>

Yes, the RAIDs tab in Disk Utility will let OS X users set up RAID  
configurations. But how many people have enough smarts not to mention  
experience in setting up striped RAID sets, or mirrored RAID sets, or  
even concatenated disk sets? And how many even know what they are? Or  
care to know? Or even know what RAID means? I anticipate that Time  
Machine will  take the mystery out of such choices and make it easy  
for all users to use.

Though 26 percent of OS X users back up, only 4 percent of all Mac OS  
X users, according to the WWDC demo, actually back up on a regular,  
proactive basis. I suspect a good part of Apple's data comes from  
looking at how many .Mac subscribers such as myself use Backup.

In a similar vein, How many OS X users bother to learn how to do  
command line stuff in Terminal? Isn't that what the OS X GUI is  
supposed to make unnecessary? Isn't making data storage and retreival  
better and easier for users what an operating system is supposed to do?

So, to answer your non-sarcastic comment, the difference will be in  
the user-friendly access to and implementation of existing technology  
by building it into Time Machine ... if my speculation is correct. I  
just hope Apple does a much, much better job than Microsoft did with  
System Restore, which is a nightmare to use.

Jim
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