Power Mac G5 :: Internal Drives For RAID 0 Startup Disk
Dec 7, 2007Thinking of using 500GB and 750GB internal drives for a raid 0 startup disc (software raid obviously)?
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Dual 2.5 G5
Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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I just added a 2nd 1TB Hard Drive that I wanted to use along with this first hard drive to create a mirrored RAID set.
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I have opened up Disk Utility and think I may know how to do this but a few things concern me.
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I didn't want to reinstall my OS.
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Leopard
Using Disk utility
The RAID tab says "online" and the status is green (indicating the RAID is working). However on my desktop i see the 2nd hardddrive mounted with no contents in it. I just want to able to use the 2nd drive as a mirror so this way if one fails I'm still up and running.
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Power PC G5 Tower 2 Ghz dual processor (2004?) with two internal hard drives
Mac OS X (10.5)
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