Which hard-drive for MacPro

How did you guys set up your hard drives:
which (MacPro)hard-drive configuration is recommended for best Aperture performance & safety:
- does Raid 0 speed up Aperture?
- are Raid Levels for data recovery still needed with Time-machine and Aperture's Vault?
any help would be greatly appreciated

Grischa RÜSCHENDORF wrote:
How did you guys set up your hard drives:
which (MacPro)hard-drive configuration is recommended for best Aperture performance & safety:
- does Raid 0 speed up Aperture?
- are Raid Levels for data recovery still needed with Time-machine and Aperture's Vault?
any help would be greatly appreciated
Grisha,
Mine is not the best solution, just a possible one: I have 2 internal 500Gb drives configured as a 1Tb RAID-0 array for performance. This contains everything - it's my boot disk and contains all my apps, my home drive and my Aperture library.
Many people would recommend separate partitions for Boot and data, others recommend against RAID for the Boot partition.
I have an internal 750Gb drive for Time Machine and my primary Aperture vault. (when my 1Tb array exceeds 750Gb capacity, then I'll add another 750Gb drive to create a 1.5TB time Machine drive).
I have an external 320Gb external drive as my tertiary Aperture vault plus it holds a copy of my directory. I keep this at work and update every 2 weeks or so.
You still need backup with RAID. RAID covers you for physical drive failure (not RAID-0, which actually increases your exposure to this), but offers no protection against data corruption, accidentally deleted files etc etc.
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