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prolix
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Jul 6, 2004, 05:14 PM
 
I'm currently looking for a decent secondary storage system, preferably something that its fault tolerant. I have a dual g5 with a 160gb drive. I planed on using that as teh boot/system drive, then maybe an external raid solution for storage.

Has anyone used one of these? http://www.g-raid.com/

299$ for the external 160gb solution. thats a raid 1 setup in one nice looking chassis

I was also thinking of just doing a raid 1 on two internal drives but I'm trying to plan ahead and account for future space requirements.
     
hmurchison2001
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Jul 6, 2004, 06:20 PM
 
I'm suprised they are calling this G-RAID because I was under the impression that the drives are actually sequential. Meaning fill up one 80GB HD and then recording starts on the other.
     
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Jul 6, 2004, 06:25 PM
 
Originally posted by prolix:
I'm currently looking for a decent secondary storage system, preferably something that its fault tolerant. I have a dual g5 with a 160gb drive. I planed on using that as teh boot/system drive, then maybe an external raid solution for storage.

Has anyone used one of these? http://www.g-raid.com/

299$ for the external 160gb solution. thats a raid 1 setup in one nice looking chassis

I was also thinking of just doing a raid 1 on two internal drives but I'm trying to plan ahead and account for future space requirements.
I would bet it's 160 gb as RAID 0. If you wanted RAID 1 you'd only get 80 GB of capacity. I also don't know about the controller -- whether you could actually see the drives individually or whether they have a controller in the unit which does the RAID for you (in which case you couldn't do the RAID 1 at all). I'd recommend you read it more carefully than I just did -- but my gut would say when they talk about speed and list 75 MB/sec with 2 drives that they're talking RAID 0.
     
prolix  (op)
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Jul 6, 2004, 08:14 PM
 
you guys are right, i read the site wrong (or not closely enough). i think it is raid 0, oops. i assumed it was dual 160's b/c of how they indicated 2/160, i took that as two 160's, whereas its more likely to be 2 drives with a total of 160.

back to the research, might be better to just raid 1 two internal drives
     
   
 
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