[trancepriest]

I have dual SATA Maxtor 250gb hard drives in a RAID 0 array on my G5. Been having problems with waking up the computer from sleep (about 25% of the time) and also the computer stalls sometimes while booting up from a complete shut down. Anyone out there with my setup having problems or could give me some advice? I believe these problems are due to the RAID array. I have 10.3.3 / 512 megs / all the latest updates.

Any info on the reliability of RAID setups would be appreciated. I'm beginning to think I need an external firewire HD for my boot drive.

[solaris]

I ran a stripe on my G5 for 6 months. No problems at all. The only reason I decided to break it was to use one as a scratch disk for Photoshop/FCE.

I'm thinking about an external FW800 disk for my system disk, if the wife lets me

[phantomac]

I got a striped RAID 0 on my G5 2x2GHz/1.5GB RAM, too.
No problems to report.

[Mithras]

Unless you
(a) absolutely need to squeeze every bit of speed

AND one of

(b) don't value your time
(c) don't value your data
(d) backup religiously, every hour or so
or (e) have some other "real" storage, that you temporarily copy files from to get work done quickly

running RAID-0 on your boot or main work disk is asking for trouble. As soon as one disk goes down (and with two disks, your chances just doubled), everything is toast. RAID-0, because of the striping, can be even more sensitive to problems than just using one disk like most of us do.

[pdovinh]

Try this:

In your "Energy Saver", unselect "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible". To put my mac to sleep I just touch the Power button on my flat display then type S.

I have 2 G4s and 1 G5 all striped and are wonderful.

pd