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So apparently Amazon still sells this and I want one for my G5…

AdamBuker

AdamBuker

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Since I have a decent amount of internal storage and fast storage inside my G5, I have been thinking of getting something that would suffice for archiving. I found this for sale at Amazon. What struck me was the FW800 support and the support going all the way back to Tiger. I was curious if anyone here had used this raid enclosure with any PPC system since I could not find anything meaningful mentioning PPC support or lack there of. I’m a bit hesitant to purchase until I know for certain.

I did find a review elsewhere on this forum that confirmed my performance ecxpectations, but again nothing that really deals with PPC support.
 
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AdamBuker said:
Since I have a decent amount of internal storage and fast storage inside my G5, I have been thinking of getting something that would suffice for archiving. I found this for sale at Amazon. What struck me was the FW800 support and the support going all the way back to Tiger. I was curious if anyone here had used this raid enclosure with any PPC system since I could not find anything meaningful mentioning PPC support or lack there of. I’m a bit hesitant to purchase until I know for certain.

I did find a review elsewhere on this forum that confirmed my performance ecxpectations, but again nothing that really deals with PPC support.
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Also, why is this mentioning Amazon affiliation? I have never been an affiliate of Amazon and I don’t earn a darn thing from them.
 
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Tratkazir_the_1st said:
Firewire 800 /IEEE 1394b (Up to 100 MB/Sec) - not really fast...
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Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure

Check out the deal on Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800, eSATA, USB 3.0 RAID Enclosure at Oyen Digital
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I don’t really need speed with this as I have an internal M2 AHCI SSD on pcie card that gets 800 MB/sec read/write. This is more for archiving than as a working drive. If I use RAID 5 or 10 and found an eSATA card, I could theoretically double the transfer speed, but I don’t know if that would be worth the effort or extra expense.
 
AdamBuker said:
Since I have a decent amount of internal storage and fast storage inside my G5, I have been thinking of getting something that would suffice for archiving. I found this for sale at Amazon. What struck me was the FW800 support and the support going all the way back to Tiger. I was curious if anyone here had used this raid enclosure with any PPC system since I could not find anything meaningful mentioning PPC support or lack there of. I’m a bit hesitant to purchase until I know for certain.

I did find a review elsewhere on this forum that confirmed my performance ecxpectations, but again nothing that really deals with PPC support.
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FW-supporting RAIDs are certainly still available brand new. No idea if actually being manufactured, but at least being sold.
 
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AdamBuker said:
What struck me was the FW800 support and the support going all the way back to Tiger.
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The enclosure handles RAID in hardware so it should just present itself as a single virtual disk to the host, so its OS or architecture is irrelevant. One Amazon review mentions problems using it via FireWire, so YMMV. Disks larger than 2 TB need to use GUID, not APM.

ToniCH said:
It says "we", it's the Forum, not you. You see that in every post where somebody posts an Amazon link.
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Or merely quotes a post that contains an Amazon link — which is silly.
 
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ToniCH said:
It says "we", it's the Forum, not you. You see that in every post where somebody posts an Amazon link.
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Ah. That explains it.

Amethyst1 said:
The enclosure handles RAID in hardware so it should just present itself as a single virtual disk to the host, so its OS or architecture is irrelevant. One Amazon review mentions problems using it via FireWire, so YMMV. Disks larger than 2 TB need to use GUID, not APM.
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I have a bunch of 500GB HDD (same model and manufacturer) not being used at the moment, and I was thinking of trying to use them in either RAID 5 or RAID 10 configuration. Right now I think I have them formatted as APM HFS+ Extended. Would I need to reformat each drive before setting up a hardware RAID, and would you have any recommendation as far as RAID 5 vs 10?
 
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Would I need to reformat each drive before setting up a hardware RAID, and would you have any recommendation as far as RAID 5 vs 10?
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Setting up a RAID usually deletes everything that’s on the drives anyway unless it's a RAID 1 (mirror). As for RAID 5 vs. RAID 10, in a nutshell:

LevelCapacityPerformanceFault Tolerance
RAID 5 (parity striping)(number of drives - 1) × sizeread: good; write: slow-ish depending on enclosure's CPUone drive; none while array is rebuilt after drive failure
RAID 10 (striped mirrors)(number of drives / 2) × sizeread: good; write: goodtwo drives if one drive in each mirror fails; if two drives in the same mirror fail: goodbye
 
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