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Thoughts on this 4TB RAID 0 / 1 HFS+ hard drive ?
Trying to understand the tech specs of this drive, which I want to partition and clone media over to.
– Says it’s “HFS+ formatted for Mac OS X, can be reformatted for Windows system” – I think sticking with Mac would be best since that’s what the system is now. But what about the ‘HFS+’? Shouldn’t they be Journaled Extended ?
– ***And it says it can be configured to RAID 1 – obviously that’s great, but – Does that mean since it is 4TB that configuring to RAID 1 would turn the drive into 2TB mirrors? And would this slow the hard drive down?***
– Aside, at what point in the configuration of the drive can one choose RAID 0 or 1 if they drive allows for that? (Sorry a bit naive about this.)
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Hi Rosie,
HFS is the mac format for drives (MAC). If you use Windows its NTFS. For formating Raid drives use OS extended, not journaled. Yes with Raid 1 you have just 2 TB and slower speed. But with Raid 0 your complete data will be gone if one drive fails.
Cheers
Rainer
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Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems -
Wait can I simply just reformat the HFS to Mac Os extended?
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Hi Rosie,
HFS is Mac OS extended.
Rainer
factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems
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