ZoroLives Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I am researching RAID at the moment. I have never done it yet but I want to include a stripe array as my boot drive. There is a link here somewhere that goes over that process nicely. Wish I knew where it was at the moment for clarity of this post, oh well. I know I can follow the directions and do it, that isn't my question. I know there is RAID 1 and RAID 0. I believe RAID 1 is the striping of two or more drives into one large drive. In any case, this is what my question pertains to, striping two drives. I am down to looking at two solid performing board as mentioned many times in these forums. The GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P vs the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R. I am looking at these boards as others say they perform quite well almost OOTB and this is my first Hackintosh so, go with what works I say. But what is the difference in the boards - specifically related to setting up RAID? And which board if any allows for a hardware RAID solution? I know the how to article describes setting up two drives as a RAID setup in the Apple Software, but isn't this describing a soft RAID solution? Or is it actually describing a hardware RAID solution? I ask because as I said, I have never used RAID before but I have long heard that a hardware RAID solution is better and faster than a software RAID solution. And if either of these board comes with a hardware RAID capability, which one is it? Or do they bothy allow for Hardware RAID? OR do neither do hardware RAID but both do software RAID? Surely Apple must use hardware RAID and not just software RAID? And if so, which boards support this? Much thanks. ADDED: No takers yet? C'mon. someone else on this list has to know about RAID? Sorry to be impatient but I took a couple of days off work and I want to get some things done including finally getting my system order in. Need the RAID board though, right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152248-raid-in-depth/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Read this - RAID FAQ - it has some interesting points On this thread, at least 3 people have raid working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152248-raid-in-depth/#findComment-1075992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I used the guide below to get apple software raid working on boot partition (raid 0 - disk stripping - 2x speed for 2 disks). Hardware raid is not supported by leopard on my mainboard but the software raid doubled my HDD speed. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=76404 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152248-raid-in-depth/#findComment-1076023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoroLives Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Thanks all. This info helps. Still reading the last link. Here is the part that I still don't understand though, the two boards I mentioned both in fact do raid - which would mean - if they had the chip mentioned in the first linked thread, that they would provide a hard raid solution with a built in controller. What I don't yet understand though is what kind of RAID solutions are we speaking of here? I suppose this is al going to be Leopard induced RAID and is therefore a soft RAID solution? Or are we talking about enough hacks here to have the end result be an actual hardware RAID set up - through the boards mentioned? I Was originally concerned as I thought one of the two boards supported RAID better but they seem identical in that regard. Again, much thanks for the time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152248-raid-in-depth/#findComment-1076130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 If you'll manage to use your hardware raid it's better. My solution is the Leopard embeded software raid support, a problem with this solution is PCEFI (v9 might be compatible since short time but I didn't test it), backup/restore is a problem as well for leopard software raid. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=148541&hl= Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152248-raid-in-depth/#findComment-1076322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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