macenstein.com — If that 60GB-200GB drive that came with your Mac laptop just isn?t cutting it these days...here's a cool solution by outfitting your MacBook Pro with a RAID 0 setup using two 320GB 5400 rpm drives like Eric Cheng did.
Apr 28, 2007 View in Crawl 4
rambleApr 29, 2007
What an idiot.5400rpm drives are going to be slower, the whole point of RAID 0 is for pure speed, so this doesn't deliver it.Secondly, you're doubling your chance of failure.Thirdly he's giving up an optical drive for it.Fourthly, RAID 0 just plain gives no real benefits.If he wanted more space he should've at least used JBOD, if he wants speed, then RAID 5 is where he should start, and in that case a full desktop is required and probably a hardware card.
zioxideApr 29, 2007
Too bad that's one of the ugliest computers I've ever seen.
maxxinApr 29, 2007
You mean... unzipping a file, for example?<a class="user" href="http://www.macworld.com/2006/10/features/macprohd/index.php">http://www.macworld.com/2006/10/features/macprohd/index.php</a>RAID can be a cheap way (disks are very cheap!) to get more performance. Just doesn't make that much sense on laptops.
mscmanApr 29, 2007
or you could get a d/l superdrive...
firehedApr 29, 2007
Wait, you partition drives and put each partition into a different RAID array? I hope you never do any transferring between logical drives, since it'll just rape performance all around. In any case, the performance gain from RAID is so minimal in typical use (that's to say, anything but raw HD video capture) that it's just asking for problems.But whatever, your call. I just keep an external backup drive... that way in case my file system f**ks up, I don't have two identical drives full of useless crap.
m0b1u5Apr 29, 2007
As I've told everyone repeatedly, you'd be a f**king moron to run a RAID 0 system without a set of drives in RAID 1 as backup. Can you say, "Less than half as reliable as 1 disk" and "All Data Lost" and "RAID setup unusable on any other system"?Honestly, HDDs are a real bottleneck in a laptop, but the answer is flash memory - not RAID 0!
bofh2Apr 30, 2007
Dugg down for the truth? I looked at getting a macbook but when I went to buy a new laptop and it just did not have the capabilities the M9700 did. @archer75 - Build your own, save money and get more performance. - build your own notebook? I would like to and have been looking for a year. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place.
afssandersApr 18, 2008
I would like to know how you guys are going to recover your data from your drive once they fail. Do you really believe that your safer with one drive? Do you drive a car on one wheel? Does it really increase you chance of lost data having two drives? It's not like your playing cards and there's only 4 aces in the deck or lets say you bought 2 brand new MBP's. Do you have an increased chance of one them breaking? You're buying hardware and it should work for years. At least that's what I get out of my drives.
MirandaWilliams2011Sep 19, 2011
You can recover RAID0 and RAID5 data from computer with RAID data recovery software easily. Here is a tutorial to guide you how to Create and Recover RAID0, RAID5 Data. http://www.any-data-recovery.com/raid-recovery.htm