axroh Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hi Folks, Have been spending the last several days reading up on hackintosh related stuff here and Tonymac's blog. Very cool. I want to setup a stable, fast system for my wife. Currently she has a mac book pro 2.2 GHz - and the display went kaput on her. She's a graphic designer and so uses adobe stuff (indesign, photoshop, illustrator etc). So to give her flexibility, I also want to set up a win7 complete install on another partition or drive. I'm also tired of making backups, so was just thinking of going RAID (mirroring) all the way. I'm thinking I want to follow tonymac's guide perfectly, so I will buy a Gigabyte P55M-UD2 motherboard, core i7, 8 GB of ram or so, some hard drives, etc. Couple of Qs: 1. Would tonymac's setup work with RAID? I believe the motherboard supports it via bios, so would the OS even care? 2. How would you recommend I partition this? I was thinking of a data drive accessible by both os's, but this needs to be mirrored. What FS should I use? And I'd like to mirror both OS's as well. Hmm. 320GB x2 for the OSs, and 1T x2 for the data? Would I be able to do this with that motherboard? 3. She doesn't care about 3d/game performance. Recommendations for a wicked fast 2d centric graphics card? am I going overboard if I order an nvidia 250? 4. what's an ideal case for such a setup? If (2) above works, I need space for 4 drives. 5. Should I consider another motherboard? I think one of the Gigabyte boards supports usb 3.0 and sata 6gb/s (I think this one is 3gb/s). 6. Finally, (phew!), is everything working in tonymac's setup? sleep, ethernet controller, usb, audio etc? Sorry for all the Qs, I'm still wrapping my head around all this stuff. TIA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199879-advice-needed-dual-boot-snow-leopard-win7-with-raid/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
axroh Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 ^bump. Wow. maybe my questions are too newb. Hmm, can you guys help out with answering maybe some of my Qs? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199879-advice-needed-dual-boot-snow-leopard-win7-with-raid/#findComment-1345622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
axroh Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 alrite. final bump. or else I'll just wing it and buy the hardware and try it on my own Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/199879-advice-needed-dual-boot-snow-leopard-win7-with-raid/#findComment-1349308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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