-
one for the raid enthusiasts
I want to make a 5 drive SATA raid 3 using a Sonnet Fusion 500 box and mirror it with an exact same box for a sort of belts and braces security (so one can be unplugged and taken off site at the end of the day).
Is this possible with SATA?
Which disk utiliity would you use?
Ta
Sorry if it’s a bit OT
Lex
-
1 Reply
-
[lexerton] “I want to make a 5 drive SATA raid 3 using a Sonnet Fusion 500 box and mirror it with an exact same box for a sort of belts and braces security (so one can be unplugged and taken off site at the end of the day).
Is this possible with SATA?
Which disk utiliity would you use?”
I don’t know of any current software-based RAID driver that will support RAID-3. The RAID driver/setup in Apple’s Disk Utility is only supported for OS X Server installations. SoftRAID is pretty much the only other choice (for RAID-0 and RAID-1, stripe and mirror, respectively).
So, SoftRAID could be used to mirror the two Fusion 500 boxes, but you’ll need a hardware-based RAID controller PCI card to set up a RAID-3 for each box (and such a card may obviate the need for SoftRAID altogether). Sonnet’s cards provide separate ports and controllers but do not include any hardware-based RAID support. Apparently, SoftRAID is working on a new version that will support RAID-3.
Best regards,
Dave
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up