New system should raid be inside or outside the Mac?

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It will work just he same ether way. Its just easier to do it internal because you don’t have to have a external enclosure and cables running to the computer.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Inside it’s less expensive, but limited to the number of drives you can put in there…

Outside it’s portable (depending) but costs more because you need to have an enclosure. However you can have a LOT faster array externally, and can choose a RAID 5 for protection of the data… you lose a drive in a RAID 0 and you lose everything on all drives.

Jerry

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[Eric]

we use 3 striped wd 500 GB in our mac pro. fantastic speed, easy setup (20 min), and cheap!
Do backup your data on external FW drives = Fast, Safe & Cheap !!
we have over 200 MB/sec with an empty raid
we have over 180 MB/sec with 50% full
we have over 130 MB/sec with 10% left

with some tricks you can even use 4 drives (I heard) = even faster

if you need more speed for your projects, consider a very good external raid solution, you can afford it!!

[Walter Biscardi]

I always recommend external enclosures because I feel they’re more easily expandable, more flexible and in the case of a total system failure, can be moved to another system to keep working.

We’ve been using SATA for the past year or so and are considering switching back to Fibre Channel to bring our two rooms together with networked storage.

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