MacBook Raid

[Ender]

I have a 80gb external firewire hard-drive and wanted to create a mirror raid of my internal 80gb hard-drive with it. Would i need to backup my internal's data before hand and what would be the best way to go about doing this?

Also would their be a performance difference with a mirror raid?

 

[slylittlefox]

The fact that you'd be looking at software RAID, and over Firewire, and probably have to install a flavour of Linux in order to do it, would make this a bit senseless.

Would a synchronisation tool not suffice? To be honest the headaches associated with setting up RAID in this manner, if at all viable, make it unworthy of any amount of time and effort. Sorry, bit pessimistic I know!

 

[Ender]

and probably have to install a flavour of Linux in order to do it, would make this a bit senseless.

OSx has a software raid feature, but yea having read a bit more into it- it seems it would be far more hassle then it is worth

Thanks

 

[J1234]

You can create RAID 1 in Disk Utility, but if you do do it, remember you have to nuke the external HDD first so back it all up.

 

[mdjmcnally]

To make it work properly you would need to have the drive attached almost permamently making it pretty pointless on a portable. Just my thoughts.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

RAID on an external drive?!

Your crazy man..

 

[Hamish]

Yeah no point - would need to be connected permanently and there would be an overhead with software raid. syncronisation would be much more intelligent - Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner I think it's called should do it.