Jason Laville
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Awesome understand fully now, thanks mate for your time, really helped me get to grips with it.
So Raid 0 is the most productive but has no security
Raid 1 is simply a mirror of your original drive and is simply security but wont enhance performance
Internal raid is cheapest option, keep original drive as boot drive and stripe other 2 or 3 drives as your raid via utilities
External raid is more expensive and will need a raid card but might be a bit more reliable than internal
With external raid I take sata connection is best over firewire 800?
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Thanks for all the info mate,
So If I go with internal, I purchase say another 2 sata drives, I stripe all three with the Apple utility software, I take it dont need a raid card as thats for external raid system? If one goes down, will my mac still operate or will the who computer need to be rebooted again from scratch?
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Sorry you are quite right I have a SATA drive in there not parallel as I thought. So if I get 3 more Sata drives in there and stripe them they will become raid 0. Is there anyway of making them work where they are a different raid setting so if one goes down I dont lose everything? Also what do the different raid numbers mean?
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Thanks mate,
Working with Serial Ata can I still keep my parallel 320gb ata drive in slot one or will this have to come out when the sata drives are installed? Are external raid systems no good?
cheers Jay
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Ha ha you are crazy thankyou for that erm… insightful and some what scary explanation you gave me about the editing world… I am now off to spend all my savings on ice cream and stick my middle finger up at the editing world, lol just kidding. Okay gotta spend more money, thanks for the advice, if I buy Seagate internal SATA drives will I be able to mix this with the standered drive I have. Or do I have to either go all sata drives or all ata drives? Not exactly sure what the stripe them together part means byusing apple utility, will google it now.
Thans for your time
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okay thanks I had not registered it on the first computer yet but will do once i installed on mac pro thanks alot mate
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sorry if i sound blond but how will the second machine know that the first machine has finished with the serial?
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Hi okay thanks, im going to reinstall anyhow, just thought the serial number would only work on one system at a time?
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Thanks Jerry, Im really only going to use this for FCP so wont need much more ram Im guessing. Do you think what Im trying to achieve is too much for my imac then? Also if I didnt want to go prores as I know it takes up alot of space and not sure of what issues ill encounter when exporting to web hd Id rather stay native hdv if possible but render quicker