How to format WD RAID drive as non journaled

[Vincent Geijsel]

Jeremy, you just might be right, I’m more inclined now to leave it journaled, anyone here still in favour of non journaled though?

I’m just trying to get the best out of my system, since I was a bit surprised I was still getting those dropped frames on my brand new MacPro, this sounded like one way to increase performance. (…and yes I did try to address some of the other possible causes too)

And @ Paul, I agree, I do have another disk I plan to set up as a backup disk.

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Adam,

I was expecting that part to get a bit confusing…
The MyBook Studio II is a dual drive, intended to use in a RAID setup, which is what I was trying to do in the first place. If you read through the previous posts you’ll probably get how I arrived at that point, as said I didn’t really expect it to work that way.

[Cody Walters]

Vincent,

After a little research, it would seem that the WD Drive Manager makes it simple in configuring which RAID you want. Are you saying that this method is not working for you either? Here’s a review I ran across, the middle of the page shows the Drive Manger and where you choose a RAID 0.

https://kamlau.com/hardware/wd-mybook-studio-edition-ii-2tb/

Cody Walters

Mac Pro 2.26GHz 8 Core Xeon
16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
Final Cut Studio 3
Adobe CS5 Master Suite
Panasonic HVX-200
Canon 7D

[Vincent Geijsel]

Hi Alvaras,

So I use the WD RAID manager to make a RAID 0 setup, then go to Disk Utility and simply reformat the thus created single volume as Mac OS Extended, non journaled, this should still be a striped volume?

If so this is the solution to my problem, thanks!
(although I’m not so sure anymore if I should want it non journaled, but anyway…)

[Vincent Geijsel]

Cody,

With the WD app it is simple to set up either a RAID 0 or 1, but from what I understood it will always format as HFS+ journaled.
(problem solved though, see Alvaras’ post)

Thanks, that actually is an interesting article with the little benchmark test and all.