[TriLUG] OT: firewire raid?

[John Turner]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Matt Pusateri wrote:

> 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
>

The last Powermac G4's had FW800 and FW400. My Dual G4 1.42Mhz has a 
port.

Are you going to get an external firewire raid array (hardware raid)?  
Or do you plan to do software raid?

http://www.cooldrives.com/ seems to have a very large selection of 
external cases and raid arrays.

John