Digital BW, The Print

on 11/15/01 2:22 PM, Carolyn  Frayn wrote:

> I would also like to have a RAID system. Do you use the IDE for storage and
> the better SCSI drives for Photoshop?  Or have you ever had problems with
> the IDE drives with the continual writing and overwriting?? I'm thinking of
> using an ultra SCSI drive for photoshop and a RAID of IDE drives for
> everything else, mirrored and backup...

I wish I could answer your questions, but I haven't gotten that far yet. My
G4 came with a 27GB drive (which I thought I'd never fill) then I added a
60GB IDE. As Mark said the G4s only allow two drives on a bus, so when I
needed to add a third drive I also needed to add a controller card in order
to attach the drive. Thinking ahead for once, I got a duplicate 60GB drive
for the third drive, and a controller card that has two buses which I can
configure to either take 4 individual drives or (and here is where I'm over
my head for specifics) stripe as a RAID 0 using two or 4 drives.

Basically right now all my images are on one of the 60GB drives, and
duplicated on the second as back up. Like Mark, I can't be bothered with a
bazillion CD's, many of which will only contain one or two images. What I
want to do is add another 60Gb drive to make my primary image storage a
RAID-0; and perhaps yet another just to add additional capacity. After that
I give up! ;-)

When I was shopping around this was the best card (I actually was a bit too
early, so I have the ATA-66 model) because it will work with OSX while the
Sonnet cards didn't. The scene may have changed since then.

http://www.microlandusa.com/microland/product_detail.asp?non=1&p%5Fid=AEC688
0M&mscssid=WUXT5NXRKBSR2HX400S7NPJTQ6490B66

Careful when shopping around for controller cards, they're not all RAID
capable, nor Mac compatible. Unfortunately the ones for Macs are far more
costly than similar items for the PC. :-(