Firewire for Software RAID

[Daniel Hazelbaker]

I don't know if it helps, but we have tried 3 different models of  
firewire drives on our main file server and all were unstable, even  
without RAID.  By unstable I mean they would randomly "lock up" and we  
would have to unplug it and then re-plug it back in.  We did try  
Software RAID with firewire  once and after rebuilding the array 4  
times in as many months we gave up and bought a nice hardware raid  
box.  You can actually get some pretty cheap ones now that just have 2  
drive that are hardware based mirroring.

Daniel

On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Mike Friedman wrote:

> A client of mine is using a G5 iMac as their server (done long  
> before I entered the picture) and has no RAID running on the silly  
> thing. Obviously this is a problem. Are any of you using a Firewire  
> disk for a RAID 1 mirror?  Their needs are pretty simple, but I want  
> them to have some redundancy built in.
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