Redundant Array of Independent Disks, a scheme to utilize multiple hard drives to increase speed and reliability or to provide for data recovery in the event of hard drive failure
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Can I Mount a Hard Drive in Mac Pro Tower as Read Only?
I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID ...
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How can I reconfigure the RAID settings on a Maxtor OneTouch III?
I have a 1TB Maxtor OneTouch III. This is the drive that comes with two 500GB disks and software to configure RAID 0 (mirroring) with 500GB of storage, or full use of both disks for 1TB of storage. ...
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OSX partitions wiped by NAS RAID
So I messed up when I thought it would be a good idea to stick some hard drives into my NAS. It's now changed the partition table to a RAID0 one and my data has vanished. What are my best chances of ...
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RAID questions with ML
I'm looking to build a NAS box and putting ML on it.
I currently have two drives that are configured as RAID one that I am pulling out of a NAS box.
I have one drive that I'd like to add to the two ...
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Break RAID0 to have separate drives
I have an enclosure Hornettek Dual Bay SATA Case with removable disk trays, and RAID0, RAID1. USB3.0 and eSATA dual bay case with two 2T WD drives. My idea was to set them up as separate drives to ...
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Bootcamp won't run on OSX in RAID0
I have my MacPro booting into Lion off a 3 disk (software) RAID 0 array. I want to dedicate a fourth drive to Windows 7 via Bootcamp. However it won't run at all on my system, exiting with a 'RAID is ...
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Reverting from Mavericks to Mountain Lion on dual SSD's in RAID 0
So I have my MBP Late 2011 setup with Dual SSD's in a RAID 0 Configuration. Since this is a software RAID, I don't have a functioning Recovery HD and I need to erase the Mac and get back to a stable ...
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When creating a RAID 1 mirror set, do you need to have both disks available or can one be added later?
I'm planning my transition to Mac OS and I have a pair of mirrored drives I would like to move to my future computer. Since they are currently formatted as NTFS they will need to be reformatted during ...
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How to recover Raid configuration on Mac
I have a Direct Attached Stroge and create 2 Luns on it (27TB + 27 TB). we had stopped the system. When we started it again, we couldn’t find the RAID vol. There are two LUNs but there no RAID volume ...
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Disk Encryption on Mac PRO OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) running Apple RAID Drives
I have a Mac Pro (mid 2010) running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) with Apple Raid 1T drives and I am running VMware Fusion with Windows 7. FileVault will not install the disk encryption and PGP will ...
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The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer
I am getting a system message from Mac OS x 10.8.2 every time I power on my ICY DOCK RAID enclosure. I have followed the procedure in the manual to the letter.
Installed two new 2TB HDDs > Changed ...
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Is there a difference between WD Hard Drive utilities for RAID or Disk Utilities?
I have a WD "My Book Thunderbolt Duo" 6TB.
I have the option to format the disk using the WD utilities or to do something custom with Disk Manager.
Is there any difference in functionality between ...
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Setting “First Installed” date for Mac Pro RAID Card battery
I had to replace the battery on my Mac Pro RAID card. (Not terribly surprising: I expect the battery to last only about 3 years and it did.)
However, now that I've replaced the battery, I would like ...
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Apple RAID configuration vs Hardware RAID
I am researching external HDD's capable or RAID 1 to store a large amount of video content during overseas filming. After filming, the content will be brought back to the office and offloaded onto our ...
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Will RAID-0 speed up OS X that is installed on external SD card?
I'd like to have some portable OS X installation that I'll be able to use with different machines (MacBook at home, MacMini at work, etc.) I installed Mountain Lion on my 32GB class 10 SD card ...
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Raid backup drives and hard drive speed
I use two different Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II drive systems. The first is for my movies and music and is a 2 TB mirrored drive (Raid 1,4TB total). The second is a 1 TB mirrored drive ...
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Mac Mini with two Western Digital external Hard Drives in RAID
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am trying to set up a 2 TB and 3 TB hard drive set in a RAID so it will look like a 5 TB drive. I did it on 10.7 and it was fine but every time I try to set it up on ...
