Do new internal HDs show up as separate?

Despite trying to wait for a new tower DESIGN, I need to bite the bullet and purchase a new tower. I intend on adding two of the WD 1tb drives (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD1001FALS/). When I do so, will all three drives (including the standard 320 BG apple provides) show up as separate drives in the same way that my external drives on my current system do? I was sort of hoping that they would somehow string together as my single HD. Am I nuts? Is there no reason to do this? I was hoping to do it in order to make my SuperSuper backups easier, time machine backups easier etc. I just want to backup one stinking drive, deal with one virtual drive, instead of all three. Possible?
Also, I have been told to basically leave my system drive alone and put data and work on all of the other ones. When people do that, do you just leave your system "movies" and pictures" "music" etc. folders alone and just create your own folders on those other drives? So I will have like 300gb of drive doing nothing? I am a pro photog and have lots of video, so currently I have dedicated external HDs for each. What do people put on their system HD and keep good performance?
sorry for all the long windedness.

I don't think the OEM drive is all that great and would put it in OWC Mercury Quad-interface SATA/FW case for your emergency boot drive and backup system to do repairs with Disk Utility and other such utilities.
Not sure who would say to leave as is.
The Apple Pro RAID $799 lets you use RAID5 and see it all as one volume, or you could stripe it all together.
Time Machine backups every volume, unless you tell it not to (and you want to exclude some scratch or editing volumes and folders).
It depends on what you do and hope to gain and such as to what will work best for your setup and storage needs, but I would guess you want massive storage. And for every volume, I prefer to have at least two backup sets, even two TimeMachine in case one fails or something happens, as is usually not if, but when.
The boot drive is doing more than just sitting there, it is busy, and it is to free it up so it isn't do double duty to move things to another drive. And a system only drive is easier to maintain; most problems with directory and such show up and happen to system drives, rather than media.
Also, the outer 1/3 of a drive is where it has the best performance and then drops in half and also adds latency and longer seeks, and falls off at 50%.
I recommend keeping one of those SuperDuper images of just the system, and backup system image before any updates.
A great 300GB "do nothing" would be the WD VelociRaptor ($297) or Caviar 640GB ($83). Both are exceptionally fast (and yes, I use half the 640 for system, and the rest is an archive backup of odds and ends, downloads, updates, but static files not accessed.
I keep a small home account, with all my media, music, video and photos in my real home account on 2nd drive. Depends on how much you have.
Phtotoshop 'hits' the boot drive and you want to designate a 2nd drive or partition just for scratch (or stripped array). http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401089
http://homepage.mac.com/boots911/.Public/PhotoshopAccelerationBasics2.4W.pdf
Between SuperDuper, Disk Warrior and some other tools, I keep drives in shape, scan for bad media sectors if needed.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard103.html VelociRaptor
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html Caviar 640 (110MB/sec)
So yes, unless you mirror (not great idea) or stripe (redundant backups are a must) each drive will show as separate volume. If your work depends on improving disk performance, you could create one stripped volume.
If you are use to using FireWire, you might want to consider an SATA controller setup for larger and more drive support and performance.

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Dear all:
i have a case need help.
now i want to create a new internal order type ,and assign a new number range and a default settlement rule to it .
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what should i do step by step?
thanks!
best regards!

Hi,
2. Order Master Data
2.1 Define Order types (KOT2_OPA)
IMG Controlling  Internal Orders Order Master Data  Define Order Types
An Internal order is created under an Order type. An order type is used for storing various control parameters and various defaults while creating an internal order. It is used for classifying various types of internal orders according to usage for e.g. Real orders for trade fairs, real orders for Capital investment measure, Statistical orders for motor vehicle expenses.
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Click on New Entries
Take a drop in the field Order category and select 01
Enter
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Give Order Type :- Z810
Description :- Traders First Real order type
Object Class :- OCOST overhead
Reference Order :- Collective order without automatic goods movement
Residence time 1 :- 12 months
Residence time 2 :- 1 month
Check Commit Management and Check Integrated Planning
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Save
Click on Field Selection
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Click Save
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Number Range needs to be assigned to the internal order type. Number range can be internal or external. In Internal numbering system automatically assigns a number from the given number range. In external numbering the user has to manually assign the number from the given number range.
We will configure internal number range for our internal order type Trade Fair
Click on Group Maintain (From the menu bar)
Click on Group  Insert (From the menu bar)
Update the following
From Number: - 910000000000
To Number: - 919999999999
Click in plus icon at the left bottom of the screen
Click Save
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You need to assign the order type to the group we created above. Proceed as follows:-
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Click on Arrow Z810 Trade Fair real order type note it turns blue
Select Check mark Z810 A ltd India fair real order
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Z810: A Ltd India Trade fair real order / Z810 Trader Fair real order type.
Click Save
Select: - Z810: A Ltd India Trade fair real order / Z810 Trader Fair real order type.
Click on Pencil icon.
Click Back arrow.
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Description text: - A Limited Trade affair
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CCtr Statistical key figures
Orders: Cost Element/Activity inputs
Ord: Statistical key figures
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Double Click on Layouts for control
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Select back arrow
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We will use settle by cost element.
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A Ltd : Internal order settlement structure
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Click on New Entries
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Click on New Entries
Select Settlement not allowed
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Click on Save.
Select Back Arrow
Double Click on Enter Settlement Profile in order types
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Click Group Insert
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Click on Arrow icon.
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Woops, I forgot to mention everything is being backed up on an external via time machine. I wasnt clear enough.
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hi there,
first of all, please excuse my terrible (german) school english. i hope you understand my problem.
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Shay912 wrote:
Thank you very much, I was going out of my mind!!!
Shay
Your welcome. I hope all is well now.
Ciao.

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http://www.dttservice.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbookresq.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbookmedic.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.tekserve.com (parts and repair work)
http://www.powerbooktech.com (parts only)
http://www.ifixit.com (parts and excellent, illustrated online take-apart instructions)
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XServe G5 DP 2.3 GHz PowerPC OS 10.4.11
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Am I really limited to 500GB per drive?
Thanks.

There are several threads about drives which are known to work in the G5 Xserves but you'll have to search to see if those specific drives have been tested and reported by anyone. The G5 is pretty liberal about what it will accept although some people report having to jumper the speeds down because they shipped with an early version of the SATA spec and some newer faster ones have issues. The only drives I can personally vouch for are the Seagate Constellation ES 7200RPM SATA 2.0 drives. I put in a several 500GB and the worked immediately, I created RAID 1s and they've been humming along since then.
You're not limited to 500GB although I'm pretty sure you're limited to 2GB and maybe there are further limits on the 10.4 version of the OS. (I don't think so but it's been a long time so I can't be certain.) I only chose the 500GB because it was big enough (replacing 80GB drives) and I had to buy many so I went for the cost savings over the larger drives.
If you're really set on those drives and no one's reported on them you might consider getting one and testing it out before you commit to buying all of them. Otherwise opt for one of the reported known good drives and move on.
Good luck and report back with your results,
=Tod

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