Hi,
I've since received this info from the Apple reseller I'm interested in buying my MacPro from - how does it look?
I suppose my two concerns are:
1. Whether I can make the item they suggest a 'Raid 5'
2. Whether I can expand my 'Raid' setup to include more hard drives should I need to expand in a years time to edit my independent feature
Any suggestions would be really appreciated. I could just take the Apple resellers word for it and say "yeah cool I'll buy it" but just wanted to check with you Creative Cow guys first to see what you think.
"Just keep the one disk in the mac pro ( or maybe 2, so you can have a backup of your system)
Forget the raid card and internal disks
Use one of these instead -
http://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?ITEM=JIGSX183ARA
Its external, so if your mac breaks then you can still get to your storage. You can also transfer it to use on a different machine. Its fast enough to cope with 3 streams of video at prores format. Costs about the same as the mac pro with internal raid and disks"
