Macs with RAID?

[Zwhaler]

Well, I serached around and couldn't find a good topic, so I'll just start my own. I honestly would really like it if Macs got RAID (Zero or One) but do you think it will happen? Because they don't really crash and the whole no viruses thing kinda eliminates the point of RAID 1, but I would still like it but don't want to install a second HD myself, so do you think Apple will ever (as in this year or next year) release macs with a RAID option? (I know Mac Pros have RAID, I'm talking about the lower end models)

 

[CyberPrey]

My Mac Pro is running 2 Raid 0's now....

 

[Zwhaler]

Yeah, but I'm talking about maybe high end consumer models. Like the 20" iMac.

 

[jdechko]

Yeah, but I'm talking about maybe high end consumer models. Like the 20" iMac.

No offense, but in what space would the create this RAID? The iMac is already packed full as it is. There's the space in the Mac Pro, but not in the iMac.

And they do make machines with RAID options: they're called XServe RAIDs.

 

[Danksi]

OSX provides software RAID options, via disk-utility.

'Tis my understanding that you can built RAID disk arrays using internal and external drives, which would allow consumers products, such as MacBook, iMac and Mac-Mini to have RAID setups. Obviously the only Mac that can have an internal RAID array is the PowerMac/Mac Pro series.

I recall there being an article of four iPod Shuffle's RAIDed together using a 4-port USB hub.. just to see if it worked.

 

[ampd]

I wish we had more raid options though... I love raid 5...

 

[topgunn]

Because they don't really crash and the whole no viruses thing kinda eliminates the point of RAID 1, but I would still like it

What do viruses and crashes have to do with RAID 1? If you get a virus, mirroring isn't going to help. You'll just mirror the virus, too. Same with crashes. If you have a corrupted file, its going to be mirrored just like everything else. The reason to use RAID 1 is in case you have a hard drive failure which Macs are just as prone to as PC's.

 

[Easy Rider]

What do viruses and crashes have to do with RAID 1? If you get a virus, mirroring isn't going to help. You'll just mirror the virus, too. Same with crashes. If you have a corrupted file, its going to be mirrored just like everything else. The reason to use RAID 1 is in case you have a hard drive failure which Macs are just as prone to as PC's.

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[Anonymous Freak]

Yeah, but I'm talking about maybe high end consumer models. Like the 20" iMac.

So what you're really asking is how soon people think Apple will provide a 'consumer' model that can hold two or more hard drives, correct?

Not soon.

(I already have a RAID on my circa-2004 eMac, two external 80GB hard drives in a RAID-1 as my backup drive.) A PowerBook G3 with an expansion-bay hard drive can be configured to run the internal and expansion bay drives as a RAID-1. You could theoretically remove the optical drive from any of their computers, and slap in a second hard drive, and run a RAID.