Re: Hard Drive Edit Backup FCP

[peter dunphy] "do you think it would be possible to combine these four drives into a Raid 5 setup?"

Peter,

What no one else mentioned is that Raid 5 requires a hardware card. It only requires three drives, but since it eats up a large percentage of one of the drives, it hardly makes sense with only three drives. Four dives is pretty much considered the minimum practical for a raid 5 configuration.

There are four drive bays in your MacPro, plus an empty optical drive bay, which can accommodate a fifth hard drive if the proper hardware is installed, so you can install an inexpensive 4-drive raid 5 internally. CalDigit has a raid card that comes with the hardware for the optical bay. I would recommend that call them and ask Jon Schilling about that setup. He doesn't bite too often, and he will give you all the info you require.


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