[bradleykavin]

i have a g5 dual 1.8 and it came with an 80 gig hd...i just purchased a 250 gig hd and i guess there is a way i can make them act as one hard drive using raid..how do you do that? and if u do that, does it slow the hardrive down or make copying files or something slower?or in other words..does it have any speed effects? any help would be apprecaited..thanks

[videian28]

you can do this, but due to the fact that one drive is only 80gb, you will only be able to use 80gb of the other drive...kinda a waste

[tooki]

RAID requires like-size drives. There is another system called "JBOD" (Just a Bunch Of Disks) that does what you are thinking.

But any time that you combine drives without adding redundancy data (as most RAID does), you are decreasing your data security.

Just keep them as separate disks and use them like that. (In fact, I'm not even sure of any way to do JBOD on a Mac, anyway.)

tooki