The local Apple Store has sold a customer a RAID w/4 250 Gig drives and 2 Fibre Channel Cards (1 for the RAID and 1 for an existing G5). They referred the installation to me (Yea!). This will be my first live, hands-on install of a RAID. (I would almost feel better about setting up an XServe). I have looked briefly at the RAID Admin software… but am not sure what to expect on a new install. I’ll have to install the cards, software, configure the 4 RAID drives (level 5) and then be sure that the space can be “seen” by regular file sharing as the Apple Store did not sell any server software. There will be 2 other Macs (a new G5 iMac and a G4) that will want to store/share their files on it as well as the G5 that will be directly cabled.
My questions for the group are – any advice for setting up the RAID? or anything to look out for?