[DM-MUG] External Drive Enclosures/RAID1 and OS X

[Douglas]

Hi Jim,

For Firewire enclosures I'd look at http://www.wiebetech.com/ and 
perhaps http://www.granitedigital.com/.

My experience (SCSI only, not Firewire) with pre-OS X versions of 
SoftRAID have been uniformly good.

Best, Doug


On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 12:41  PM, Jim Turner wrote:

> First question:  anyone know where I can get a 2-drive 3.5" external
> firewire case for ultra ATA drives?  I found this guy:
>
> http://www.cooldrives.com/3usb20ficodu.html
>
> But I'm not too sure I want something that has a 320GB disk size limit.
> I'm planning on mirroring two 250GB drives, but I would suspect that
> sometime in the future, I'll need bigger drives (this is for backing up
> my G4 and the wife's laptop).  That, and the enclosure there is only
> FW400.  I'd like to have the option of using FW800 someday as well.
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Second question: Has anyone played with OS X's software RAID doodads?  
> I
> see that it'll do it now as part of the OS, but I've not had the
> opportunity to try it out.  Is it pretty reliable? Or should I go and
> get something like SoftRAID?
>
> Oh yeah, one other thing... in the last meeting, wasn't it discussed
> that there was going to be a photo contest for the books being given
> away this month?  What happened to that?  I really need that Adobe book
> as my photoshop kung fu isn't as strong as I'd like it to be.
>
> Jim
>
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