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  Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo – Disk Utility does not show it as a RAID

  Posted by Michael Jones on October 18, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  I just picked up a Maxtor Onetouch III Turbo to use as a Media Raid with FCP on my iMac 24″ 2.16 (OSX 10.5.5) The drive(s) came with all kinds of software (which I did not load) I am able to see the drive on my desktop, but It does not look like a typical “RAID” from the Disk Utility. I see only one disk “1.8 TB Maxtor” with 1 volume “Untitled”.

  Is the Raid handled through the enclosure? (Connected FW 800) and that is why the Mac Disk Utility sees just one drive? Is their a way to See and Stripe the two HDDs through the OS’s Disk Utility? (would that be better or worse?)

  Eventually I read that using the Newer Maxtor Manager (For the one touch 4) works with 10.5.5, so I uploaded it. The Maxtor Manager show that the Maxtor Drives are stripped Raid 0 accross two drives.

  Maybe it is better to leave it the way it is. Any light on the matter is appreciated!

  -mj

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