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  Phanther built RAID is slower w/Tiger than Tiger built RAID!

  Posted by Mitchji on July 22, 2005 at 7:20 pm

  Hi,

  Tiger built RAID is faster with Tiger BUT incompatible with Panther.

  https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/tiger/drive.html
  Existing Apple RAID sets
  If you are using the Apple RAID function built into Disk Utility you will find that RAID sets built with Mac OS X 10.3 will work with Mac OS X 10.4. However, RAID sets built with Mac OS X 10.4 will not work with a Mac OS X 10.3 or earlier Mac OS system. Tiger RAID sets are seen as hard drives that need to be initialized on earler Mac OS X systems.

  In addition, my tests indicate using a RAID built with Panther on a Tiger system, reduced drive performance by as much as 10% when compared to using a RAID set created by the Tiger Disk Utility method instead. If you stay with Panther RAID sets for compatibility reasons while upgrading to Tiger there may be a small performance penalty.

  Since the purpose of a RAID in many cases is to increase hard drive performance you may want to be aware of this.

  Best Wishes,

  Mitch

  Mitchji replied 20 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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