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File System OS independent
For users running dual-boot system or multiple boxes – one windows one mac OSX, what is a good file system for a RAID? Would using a nice Jounaled RAID be cool then having a driver for it on Windows be sufficient?
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ ???Any men who have experience fiddling between systems?
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Multiple boxes sharing the same media would require a San. Check out stornext/Xsan free for the Mac client.
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I meant an external RAID solution connected via eSata on exactly 1 machine at a time… Any further suggestions?
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HFS won’t preform very well in Windows, and NTFS doesn’t have native write ability on mac (you can use third party NTFS drivers with write) so either way you will have decreased performs. So just pick which one you will use more often. However, I don’t recommend sharing drives that way.
If you want to have even more fun you could pick a third platform as your filesystem… ext2 has both windows and mac drivers.
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I have a windows partition on my Mac Pro, and an Apple Raid software raid0 (4 drives)
With the new Mac Drive for windows, I am getting 420 MB/s read write on Windows, which is exactly what I get on the Mac. So, at least synthetic test-wise the performance seems to hold up.
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Hi Vladimir,
Do you have any idea how prior versions of MacDrive for Windows performed? I haven’t upgraded from v8 to v9, yet. But if it performs better I may pay for the upgrade.
I’ve always had problems when copying large data blocks through it. Usually resulting in a lost connection to the drive._______________________
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I have never used Mac Drive on a RAID before – in fact, I believe they just added the support for apple software raid in this release.
So far it’s been really stable.
There is also something called exFAT, which doesn’t have the file size limitations of FAT32 and is read/writeable by both Mac and Windows.
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I was just curious about the OWC Mercury Qx2. If i got one of these to have as my RAID (4x2TB Drives) connected via eSata, and wanted to access the RAID one at a time from separate Mac and Windows workstations. The best choice of a file system to format the RAID would be…?
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I have been using NTFS Mac on several machines with excellent glitch free results for months now and Mac-Drive on several windows machine without any trouble either. It is good to know that mac-Drive seems to work well on a Raid. I am thinking about a dual boot rebuild of my current machine on the Asus Supercomputer board and it would be nice to have a single raid which works for both OS boots. Too bad both NTFS and HFS+ are older filesystems.
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“mac-drive”?
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