[DM-MUG] long-term data storage

[Darcy Baston]

You're kidding! That's awesome!

Can it do that with two internal drives? Right now they're both separate volumes and I use SuperDuper! to do nightly mirrors. If it does RAID 1, I can make the two internal drives act like one volume and skip all that.

But how does recovery work? Like, when one drive dies, does Disk Utility have the intelligence to start working on one? Does it report failures and give you the opportunity to swap out the bad drive?

I've got a SMART status indicator in my menu bar. Is SMART clever enough to sense problems soon enough to not have to get into that situation? 

Darcy
 
On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 02:20PM, Jon Thompson <jon at mac-consultant.com> wrote:

>Disk Utility in OS X can setup a software RAID 1 between two drives.
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>On 2006, Aug 22, at 2:12 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:
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>> Aha! I never thought of doing a RAID setup either. Do you have any  
>> URLs handy for software solutions?