[frankmcma]

I have several 1TB drives and I want to chain 2 using the built in OSX software to make a Raid 0 drive (for speed) for the main system drive.

How do I go about doing a complete OS X reinstall, and creating a Raid? Which comes first? What are the steps? Any suggestions for settings? (Raid block size...small blocks or large?)

Lastly...does this make sense? So much of my data is on the main drive (iphoto photo sets, imovie projects, etc..all mirrored to another drive via Time Machine) that it seems to make sense that the main system drive should be fastest.

Thanks

Frank

[Maflynn]

I don't know if this still the case but back when I owned a MacPro and I stripped my drives, I was unable to apply various firmware patches from apple. not sure why but they just didn't work I had to boot off a third drive that also had an OSX image.

Also if you plan on using bootcamp, then using RAID-0 isn't a good idea since its not compatible and finally you do realize there is a risk of data corruption because if something burps while writing out data, you lose the entire volume since the data just got corrupted. Personally I'd not stripe my data drive unless I had a rock solid backup plan.

After running into the above issues and realizing the risk wasn't worth the performance boost I decided against using RAID0 any further but to each his own.

[frankmcma]

No plans on using boot camp, I just took out Vista recently, never used it.

Had anyone installed a raid 0 and Max os x? What are the steps?

Frank

[Maflynn]

you can find what your looking for here http://tinyurl.com/dyujg7

[frankmcma]

Yep I googled right to another forum and got expert advice and the solution..THANKS!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....&stqc=true