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Using RAID 10 on Mac OS X

Now that your raid set is hosed, feel free to experiment with new things. Like a hybrid raid that uses a software RAID 0 to stripe across two hardware RAID 1 mirrors.

First, boot off your Mac OS X install DVD. Open RAID Utility. Use it to create two mirrors. Something like this:

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Then, open Disk Utility and play with its software raid features until you make it stripe across those two mirrored volumes you just set up. Like this:

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Now install Mac OS X on your new, hybrid, RAID 10, that can handle up to two disk failures (if they aren’t in the same mirror), and doesn’t become degraded in a disk failure scenario, and has very fast rebuild times. win-win-win.

Now, to go out and buy a big external drive to run Time Machine with…..

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