[TriLUG] OT: firewire raid?

[Matt Pusateri]

On Thu, January 27, 2005 10:00 am, Greg Brown said:
> A quick google search confirms that firewire raid is possible.  I am
> wondering if anyone has tried that and, if so, did you suffer any
> strange lockups or unexplained data loss?  The reason I investigating
> this is I was thinking of replacing my old, no raid, P-II disk server
> with a newer P-4, SATA RAID, blah, blah, blah.  Now I think that
> because I have primary Mac clients I might pick up a G4 powermac off
> ebay (they are reasonably priced these days), get some kind of
> firewire
> (800 perhaps?) external raid device and use this machine as my primary
> disk and print server.
>
> I'm a bit frightened about the firewire raid so I am soliciting
> comments.  Obviously X-RAID is well out of my price range and is not
> an
> option.
>
> Greg

I could be completely wrong and probably am, but I didn't think that
the powermac g4's had firewire 800 only firewire 400.

Matt