Comments on: Put a RAID 0 in your MacBook, PowerBook, or MacBook Pro

By: Wes Harrington

Wes Harrington — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:31:55 +0000

Raid-0 Will Also Help with speeding Boot Up Time, Especially if Running Two New Veloci- Raptor 10,000 RPM Hard Drives. With this quad core 3.7GHZ overclocked processor. programs open and close faster then blinking ones eyes.
I have Ran raid-0 for years with No- problem, Most people no days can purchase a large external drive and this is where to keep all items you wish to save or keep.
Use the drives on system for operating needs upgrading to 10-K harddrives in a Raid-0 setting makes a Huge difference in the amount of Wait time across the board…

By: common sense

common sense — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:26:17 +0000

raid 1 does not get speed.. just redundancy. Raid-0 with this is a good idea. And even a better idea with the new Solid State Drives. And like the foolish comments above it will not cost 10k$ for some crazy backup system. Think Timemachine, and an external Hard drive. Geez, you people.

By: Lil' Pistol Starter

Lil' Pistol Starter — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:34:12 +0000

Why would anyone want raid-0 in a laptop?
I like the setup, but Raid-1 is the way to go…
Your gonna lose all that data without redundant storage.

By: mATT sAVAGE

mATT sAVAGE — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:53:03 +0000

Is this RAID setup compatible with Timemachine in 10.5?

By: Former SAN Guy

Former SAN Guy — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:43:11 +0000

The benefits of RAID 0 are small in comparison to the risk of loss data. It is not a matter of “if,” rather “when” you will have disk failure. I suggest a mirror to increase redundancy if your data is important (unless you own a $10k tape drive or $30k tape library).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:36:50 +0000

With Carbon Copy Cloner, it should not be that bad. Weekly cloning would reduce the data loss.

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It should be noted that RAID 0 will increase your risk of data loss by 100% as it will be spanned across both drives. But, I guess that doesnâ€™t bother some people.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:53:22 +0000

Yes, it is possible to RAID across USB devices. One particularly strange person RAIDed USB floppy drives on a Mac!

By: Stretch

Stretch — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:05:49 +0000

Sets you back a bit, but worthy alternative if your laptop *doesn’t need complete mobility*:

QBOX-P + Sil3112 chipset expresscard = raid0 and/or 1 combos with up to four sata hard drives running at full speed with only one esata external cable.

BYTECC expresscard i got for like 30 bucks off newegg and installed drivers from chipset manufacturer website to make work with osx. The qbox-p will set you back ~300 usd. Hopefully someone will design a competitor external case and lower that price but still worth it in my book.

approx $1300 for an additional 3.0 TB raid0
approx $500 for an additional 800 GB raid0

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:58:47 +0000

It should be noted that RAID 0 will increase your risk of data loss by 100% as it will be spanned across both drives. But, I guess that doesn’t bother some people.

By: boots

boots — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:25:26 +0000

ONE day, one day… NAND