2009 mac pro raid question
I have a 2009 mac pro and am considering grabbing the appropriate apple raid card (used). Just a few questions since i've never used it (thought i've used other raids so i understand the technology in general):
1. when using the apple raid card, can you fill the first bay with a non raid-ed drive, then raid the other 3 bays? I have a third party SSD in drive bay 1 that i use for startup.
2. can you use third party drives?I know this is not officially supported/allowed by apple. but can you do it anyway by simply hooking up appropriate drives?
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Apple Mac Pro Quad 2.66 2009Nehalem