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Apple RAID Card
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Dubai, UAE
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Thinking of buying a MacPro w/4 1TB drives, at least 2 of which will be mirrored, but might do a 2TB split with the third drive for parity. What are the Pros/Cons of buying the Apple RAID card vs just doing the RAID with Disk Utility setup? It is certainly not a cheap card.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
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i believe the RAID card provides a battery backup among other features
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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If you want parity (RAID5), then you have to have the Apple RAID card; Disk Utility doesn't support it.
If you're just doing mirroring/striping, then the RAID card improves performance.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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The RAID card also adds the ability to use server-grade SAS drives. They're very expensive, but hella fast.
antonio
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2002
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ooh... SAS... fast... but very expensive... the RAID card too, is expensive.
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