[TriLUG] OT: firewire raid?

matusiak dave at matusiak.org
Thu Jan 27 10:47:52 EST 2005


I know the last generation G4 tower (MDD - Mirror Door Drive) have 1 
FW800 port.  Unfortunately, they left that off of the new G5 iMac.  For 
shame.  So, I guess the only product available new which includes FW800 
is a PowerMac G5.

And in terms of FW RAID, it is possible and from the presentation given 
at TriLUG by the Oracle guru (sorry forgetting his name), it seems to 
work pretty well.  His main development (at that time) was getting 
Oracle spanned over multiple RAID'ed FW drives.  He seemed happy with 
the results...

dave m.

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




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