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I’ve got a dual 2.5 G5 that is a Final Cut Pro machine where I have 2-250 GB Maxtor SATA drives striped to get 500 gig. I did this because this is a shared machine between about 15 users and I wanted one volume to keep things simple and so everyone could keep better track of space and where files were, ect. This has caused nothing but problems, having disk errors and having to back up in a risky situation, thinking I would loose all the data. This has happened several times in short times.
Also, my 2 xServes are set up the same way, and there is no issues.
All that to say, I have heard in the past that having a striped RAID as a startup volume is a risky situation, but have no concrete answers why. And since I have been successful with the servers, I am not sure why I am having issues with the PowerMac.
What are all the negatives to a striped startup volume so i can justify spending some money to get bigger drives, and not striping the startup volume? ❓
I knew that, but I thought there would be more of a risk for other reasons. If it just fails because one drive was dying anyway, then I guess I’ve just had bad luck with the Maxtor 250 SATA drives. I’ve already had one replaced.
I just thought there was another reason that it was a bad idea that I didn’t know of.
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