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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

I am spec'ing a new Mac for work and had a question about RAIDs in particular. Its a lot more expensive to set up a RAID (card and drives, etc)... is this worth it only if you're working with a lot of large assets (like huge RAW images and video footage)? I know RAID can provide multiplicity in files (mirroring data), but if I simply set up an internal drive for TimeMachine, doesn't most of the appeal of RAID go away (if I am not using huge files)? Is there simply some geek-cool factor about having a RAID in the box? Think it might be overkill for me, but wanted to collect some opinions on the matter.

3 Comments:

Jim said...: “I'd say drives are so cheap - RAID wouldn't be worth it. I'm not sure how TimeMachine works but get an extra internal or external drive and backup your stuff to it.”; November 27, 2007 9:56 AM
ben.clinkinbeard said...: “Get a Drobo (http://www.drobo.com/)”; November 27, 2007 10:37 AM
Campbell said...: “RAID 1 or RAID 0. One is mirrored and the other splits the data across the two drives (so doubles your read/write speed effectively). If focusing more on Video I would say yes, but if large RAW image files the I would say don't bother.

The Biggest thing I noticed on my machine (PC with raid) is encoding video is a lot quicker.”; November 27, 2007 4:33 PM

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