Re: Hard Drive Edit Backup FCP

Hi Walter

Thanks for your feedback - I really appreciate it. Raid seems expensive but absolutely essential now!

Okay after a little research I can refine my question -

I will be buying my MacPro from an Apple reseller as opposed to Apple directly, as it's a little less expensive.

There are three 1TB drives being fitted in my Mac Pro bays, called: "Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATAII 32MB Cache Dual Processor Internal Hard Drive OEM"

In addition, there is another 1TB hard drive, although I'm not sure if it's Apple or not. The quote states: MAC PRO 8 CORE 2.66GHZ 6GB 1TB RADEON HD 4870 512MB

My concern is that the system I order from the Apple reseller won't be configured the way Apple would do it, such as on the Apple website:

"Your Mac Pro system ships with each hard drive individually configured in the Enhanced JBOD level with Mac OS X installed on the drive in bay 1. Using Apple's RAID Utility software, you can migrate the drives into a RAID set without reinstalling Mac OS X or reformatting the drives, or you can customize your RAID volumes to meet your exact requirements."

Should I perhaps request that the Apple reseller I'm ordering from ensures that "each hard drive is individually configured in the Enhanced JBOD level with Mac OS X installed on the drive in bay 1"?

Peter