Well the RAID saga continued on Sunday. I spent the day trying to make Esra’s old RAID box work with smaller disks - Turned out it did not support the 750GB disks she was trying to use.
Well it turned out it did not support the mix of smaller disks I tried to add either. The consensus is at this point that it handles 3 disks but not 4. Probably a bad power supply. I am leaning toward getting a new case but how much money do I really want to spend on a bunch of older smaller IDE drives? It might be better to just buy 1 big drive and use an existing single drive case….
This is a box hooked up to our mac mini. This machine plays mp3s and also has a HD TV tuner (eyeTV) so it needs the 300GB disk it has for the iTunes library and it would be nice to have a larger disk as the time machine backup disk. I have available to me the existing 300GB as well as a 400GB and 250GB and 2 160GB disks - all IDE. I am leaning towards just using the 400GB and 300GB in individual drive boxes.
stay tuned…..
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