Firewire for Software RAID

[Mike Friedman]

On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>


That's an extremely good idea, I think I will suggest that to them  
instead of replacing the iMac. In fact, I may do this for my own iMac  
based server which I tried Software RAID on a couple of times and it  
was a huge mess. Thanks for the suggestion.

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