Tyler Chittick
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I’m gonna channel Bob Zelin here and say you never want to use RAID 0. Sure, it’s fast and it sounds neat, but it’s mostly for the marketing guys to throw big numbers at you and make you go WOW. You’d be better off using one drive for audio jobs and one drive for whatever else. That way, if one drive goes down, at least you’ll only lose half of your data and not all of it. Thunderbolt should give you more than enough bandwidth to work off one drive in full HD no problem.
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You always need to leave free space on a volume, no matter how many drives are in it.
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When you type your password in terminal like that, it doesn’t display the typed characters or bullets or anything, for security reasons (so I can’t look over your shoulder and see how many characters your password has). Type your password like normal and it should work.
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We haven’t seen substantial increases in read speeds moving from 6- to 8-drive arrays, mostly because of the theoretical limits of Thunderbolt. If you think you’ll be good with the storage space of the 6-drive enclosure, go for that one. Save yourself the money and put some of that money toward a spare drive. You’ll need it, eventually.
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What did this “weird noise” sound like? A click? A squeak?
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Could the Minis be overheating? I would try checking that as well in your list of checks. Otherwise, you might take that issue to Apple themselves.
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Looks like it runs on Linux, so it probably works great. Unfortunately, you’d have to migrate all your storage over to a Linux box with ZFS and all that, which probably isn’t worth it. Plus, if you don’t know Debian or Ubuntu, that could be a huge pain in the ass. Indiestor CLI software is free. The GUI stuff costs money, but might be worth it. Costs 150 pounds, which is like $175 or something. But, like they say – gotta run it on an Linux box. I’m also interested to see if anyone is using this. In my experience, if it’s on Linux, once you get it set up it just works. Like, forever. I have Linux web servers that I haven’t touched in years and they’re going strong.
Come on folks, let us know if this works! Inquiring minds want to know!
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Usually when you’re asking these questions, it helps to put the model ID or date (Apple icon, About this Mac, System Report/More Info). However, OWC usually sells accessories and things at a fair price and good quality.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Apple/Laptop/Batteries
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Two things.
1) That’s only a SATA II card, so your speed may be slower, depending on what drives you have. I would recommend looking for a RAID controller that is SATA III, as pretty much all new drives now-a-days are SATA III. LSI, Areca, and Atto all make great controller cards.
2) You’d need a fanout cable (like this). The card has one SFF-8087 port which translates into four SATA ports, and that cable has 4x SATA ports on the other end. You plug your drives in with that and provide power to the drives from your computer’s power supply.
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https://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/Z87-PRO/E8489_Z87-PRO.pdf
Page 155 of the user’s manual pdf. I think this MoBo has two different HDD controllers on it. You’ll be changing the Intel controller to RAID mode. I would suggest plugging in your boot drive to a port on the other controller. You can look on page 54 of that pdf to see which ports are associated with which controller. That should do the trick without the need for reinstalling the OS. You can leave your OS drive unplugged while you’re doing this so you don’t risk anything happening if you desire.
Disclaimer: I’m not an ASUS tech, nor do I have this particular motherboard. However, I have done RAID setup on ASUS motherboards.
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