RAID '0' in my G5 Dual 2.7 PowerMac.... Basics help please
hi everyone,
I am upgrading my PowerMac and want to establish a, for sure, two, and possibly four drive RAID '0' structure. My research keeps bumping into the same ding dang wall:
If I upgrade from my original 250 gig drive that occupies slot 1, to two 7,200 rpm 320 gig drives loaded in drive slots 1 and 2, do I need to add a PCI-X hard drive controller card if I want to then set these two drives up on a RAID 0 structure?
Or is the computer's hardware already set up so that, with two hard drive bays occupied, we can choose to establish them in a RAID structure or choose to just have them recognized as two internal but separate hard drives?
Your help's appreciated for sure!
yours in upgrade land,
JimQ,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
I am upgrading my PowerMac and want to establish a, for sure, two, and possibly four drive RAID '0' structure. My research keeps bumping into the same ding dang wall:
If I upgrade from my original 250 gig drive that occupies slot 1, to two 7,200 rpm 320 gig drives loaded in drive slots 1 and 2, do I need to add a PCI-X hard drive controller card if I want to then set these two drives up on a RAID 0 structure?
Or is the computer's hardware already set up so that, with two hard drive bays occupied, we can choose to establish them in a RAID structure or choose to just have them recognized as two internal but separate hard drives?
Your help's appreciated for sure!
yours in upgrade land,
JimQ,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
PowerMac G5-2.7, Mac OS X (10.5.3), Radeon X800 XT graphics card