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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Spec'ing out a new Mac Pro... RAID?

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.
 
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Blogger 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.”
 
Blogger ben.clinkinbeard said...
November 27, 2007 10:37 AM
“Get a Drobo (http://www.drobo.com/)”
 
Anonymous Campbell said...
November 27, 2007 4:33 PM
“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.”
 
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