Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] External Hard Drives - Combining FW400 and 800 OK?
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Mon Aug 28 17:18:09 2006
References: <p06230904c118b4316ca6@[10.0.1.2]> <58493136DD1A84FCF658B28E@scarborough.isc.org> <p06230907c118c53f6bfa@[10.0.1.2]> <8E59D9D4A452C71D927B3E1E@scarborough.isc.org> <p06230909c118d2cc9913@[10.0.1.2]> <p06230906c11932e41661@[10.1.16.144]>

Thanks Henning.  I'll double check on booting from a RAID disk.


>At 1:22 PM -0400 8/28/06, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>Brian - The iMac G5 does have USB 2.0 but I have not been 
>>considering it because I'd need to buy a USB hub to run the drives 
>>(all my USB ports are full).  In any case,  I have now found 
>>Western Digital drives (and I assume there must be LaCie and Maxor, 
>>drives, too) that have two FireWire ports so my first issue has 
>>gone away.
>>
>>Apple has made setting up RAID configurations easy in Disk Utility 
>>and I'll use that to set the system up.
>>
>>From recent posts, it seems someone has had trouble with drives 
>>from all the majors (including me with LaCie) so which brand to buy 
>>is a toss up and I may just do it by price and availability.
>>
>>I think I remember you saying you liked the Seagate drives and I 
>>will look into those.
>>
>>Am still wrestling with whether or not to move my bootable backup 
>>volume onto the RAID 1 array or leave it where it is on a separate 
>>disc.
>
>I don't think you can boot off the RAID. My setup is to have one 
>internal boot disk, mirrored onto an external firewire 400 disk of 
>the same size. Then I have a two disk striped RAID for intermediate 
>files and swap files. Data goes on external drives, whether firewire 
>or USB2.
>
>The other issue is whether or not you can boot off USB2 drives. The 
>other thing is that Firewire 400 still is faster on my machine by 
>1.2 to 1.5 times compared with USB2, let along Firewire 800. That 
>said, I just bought a couple of 250Gb drives in USB2 enclosures to 
>use as additional data storage; the price was too good to pass up.
>
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Regards,

Dick

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