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Marvel RAID is a hardware solution so I assumed that a RAID array would be recognized after a boot up.
I booted with my Acronis bootable rescue CD and all I see is the two individual HDDs.
Any ideas

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Marvel RAID is a hardware solution so I assumed that a RAID array would be recognized after a boot up.
First and foremost, the Marvell Chipset provides SATA III Connectivity. There is an option in BIOS Setup labeled "SATA 6Gb/s Controller Mode" which is there to set the controller to the desired operating mode. The Default Setting is SATA "IDE Mode" (SATA IDE/Compatibility Mode) and not a particular RAID Mode.
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Please explain what this tool is for?
Is it only for eSATA?
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Or will it work with a Marvel RAID array?
It is a JMicron Utility, have a look:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/brighter7/screenshots/drive_booster_manager_error_pic_2.png

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Yet another question about super raid - GS70

Yes, another question about Super Raid...I recently picked up the cheapest model of the GS70 on newegg which comes with 1 mSata SSD...just a mediocre one if I remember reading correctly. I'm interested in using MSI's Super Raid once my warranty is over with and have been reading a couple posts here:
1. Walk through of how to reinstall OS
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=167198.msg1224063#msg1224063
2. I'll need a Super Raid card with links to get some, for about $100 each
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=171722.msg1252847#msg1252847
3. I can't get Super Raid unless it originally came with it?
--> https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=171185.msg1249640#msg1249640
So what's the bottom line? Would I still be able to enable super raid in the future or am I SOL since it didn't come with it originally?
thanks!

The GT70 CAN come with an adapter that has 2 (on the older, GT70 0NX models) or 3 (on newer GT70 20X models) sockets for mSATA drives. It's an optional part, that takes place of the primary SATA drive in the notebook, and physically has a different part that connects to the motherboard. If it doesn't come with the SuperRaid adapter, then it just has support for a single 2.5" SATA drive.
The GS70 on the otherhand, has this built into the motherboard and there is no swapping it out for a normal 2.5" SATA drive. You can only use mSATA drives (on those ports). The GS70 is meant to be an ultrabook, and therefore does not have the same ability as the GT70 to house up to 2 full size 2.5" SATA drives.
That's really the main difference here. Without physically seeing a GT70 to see how the SuperRaid adapter works, it's slightly difficult to explain.
But in the end, I wouldn't worry about the SuperRaid....The GS70 should have support for Intel Raid Management Engine, in which case that's all you really need.

Here's a very basic question about 2 TB external drives and Time Machine.

Here's a very basic question about 2 TB external drives and Time Machine.
Ihave a Mac Pro with a .75 TB and 1 TB drive. It also has a 1 TB 2ndinternal drive. My current external drive is too small so I'll begetting a 1.5 TB or 2 TB drive.
Obviouslythe new larger 2 TB drive will backup everything on the Mac Prointernal drive with Time Machine. But there will be 1 TB of space leftover going to waste.
ShouldI partition the external drive so that the TM portion will be 1 TB andthe use the remaining extra partition for additional file backups withCarbon Copy?
Thanks for any insights.
I tried searching around on the new Apple discussion forum, but I find it much harder to use than the old forum I used to use.

The problem with terabyte drives is that that a 3 TB is about as big as you can get without going into RAID territory. Ideally, a Time Machine drive should be 3 times as large as all the drives you are backing up. So, if you have 2.75 TB of internal storage, you should have 8 TB of Time Machine space.
Of course, that is "should". If your TB drives are mostly empty, then you can get away with something 3 times the size of your used disk space. Just remember that you are pushing it. Linc is right about Time Machine needing space to work.
It is unlikely that you have regular churn on 2.75 TB of disk. I suggest identifying which drives and folders have the most activity and excluding those drives and directories that don't change much. It would be better to archive the data that doesn't change often and keep it out of Time Machine. Then you may be able to get away with a 2 TB Time Machine drive.

Question about 2 TB external drives and Time Machine.

Here's a very basic question about 2 TB external drives and Time Machine.
I have a Mac Pro with a .75 TB and 1 TB drive. It also has a 1 TB 2nd internal drive. My current external drive is too small so I'll be getting a 1.5 TB or 2 TB drive.
Obviously the new larger 2 TB drive will backup everything on the Mac Pro internal drive with Time Machine. But there will be 1 TB of space left over going to waste.
Should I partition the external drive so that the TM portion will be 1 TB and the use the remaining extra partition for additional file backups with Carbon Copy?
Thanks for any insights.
I tried searching around on the new Apple discussion forum, but I find it much harder to use than the old forum I used to use.

John,
I'm not sure why you posted in the iMac forum so I'm going to attempt to get you to the correct spot. I would recommend reposting in the Time Machine Forum, this is part of the OS X forums (Leopard or Snow Leopard) because you are using Snow Leopard (your profile indicates you are) please click Apple Support Communities and type Snow Leopard. Then you can narrow the search down by clicking Refine this List.
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A question about Thunderbolt Raid 0's as drives for Premiere

Hi all,
I've had a browse through the forum, and found some material relating to this topic, but I'm looking for a definitive as possible answer to this.
I've just left the company I used to work for, and I've begun to set up a small editing suite at home for freelance work. I've always had engineers build me workstations in the past, so I'm a little lost. I, so far, have the follwing hardware:
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My question then, finally, is can I use these Thunderbolt Raid 0 drives as my drives 2.) and 3.)? I ran a speedtest on my current Lacie, and it was pretty impressive. I just don't want to go out and get another one to find that it's not up to the tasks I need it for above.
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Yes use Lacie R0 as the media and cache and I suggest you do. Adding TB devices chained will raise the latency. That 1 Raid 0 will be more than fast enough for both.
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Question about using a SATA drive through an Epress34 card???

I have a basic question about OSX and how it treats a SATA drive hung from an Express34 SATA card. So OSX just treats any drive as a mounted drive as far as I know bbut what about when booting...
If, at boot up, I use the 'cmd C' option to select an external SATA dirve hanging off of an Express34 SATA card, will OSX see that drive as if it just were the internal drive in the MBP or is there some inherant difference between the real internal drive and any other SATA drive?
I guess the question is... does the cmd C option really just tell the OS to treat this drive as though it were the interal drive and boot from it (assuming the drive is bootable of course) or is ot doing something else.
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Is there a difference between an external SATA drive from an Express34 card and an external firewire drive?
TIA,
Peter

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why?
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Question about fan control MSI MPower

Hi, Cosimo from Italy, sorry for my bad english.
I have a question about fan control with the MSI MPower.
The MPower site says: All 4-pin PWM fan connector Onboard
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Question about unplugging a TM drive...

Quick question - I intend to backup using time machine on an external USB drive (WD elements 750 GB). Do i have to keep the drive plugged in and switched on whenever i use the computer? I have some music, pics and docs to be backed up, but don’t add or change them that often that i need to back them up regularly, so was thinking I use TM a couple of times a week. What would happen if i unplug the TM drive after a backup? Would TM initiate a full backup when i plug it back in, or just back up the changed files only? Should i switch off TM before unplugging the drive? What do people with laptops do? They can't keep the external drive plugged in all the time...
Know this may be a silly question, but I'm a TM newbie, just testing Snow Leopard out before updating my Tiger systems.
Thanks.

Zany Ninja wrote:
Do i have to keep the drive plugged in and switched on whenever i use the computer? I have some music, pics and docs to be backed up, but don’t add or change them that often that i need to back them up regularly
No, you don't have to, but especially on your iMac, it's best to leave it on, plugged-in, and TM running. That's how TM is designed to work, and will protect you best. Once the lengthy first backup is done, subsequent hourly incremental backups are usually so quick and unobtrusive, you won't even notice them.
What would happen if i unplug the TM drive after a backup?
If you eject it first, there's no problem. If you just unplug it, OSX can't "close out" the disk properly, which can damage the backups.
Would TM initiate a full backup when i plug it back in
No, unless you wait many days (at least 10).
Should i switch off TM before unplugging the drive?
No. TM will just wait for the drive to become available.
What do people with laptops do? They can't keep the external drive plugged in all the time...
Many back-up wirelessly, to a Time Capsule.
Others do what may work well for you; keep a drive attached to your iMac as mentioned above, then share that drive with your laptop, and let TM on the laptop back up to it wirelessly. That will be somewhat slower, of course, but still shouldn't be very obtrusive (after the first one). If you do that, I'd suggest partitioning the drive, so TM on each Mac has it's own, exclusive space. See #4 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

Qosmio G30 - Question about the Raid driver

Do i actually need this driver to use RAID? If its set in BIOS, what does the driver actually do? apart from give you health stats?
Cheers

Yes, you need the RAID driver.
I think The Qosmio G30 was designed with the RAID feature like some G20 units.
Without this RAID driver you will be not able to install the OS because the OS setup cannot recognize the HDD.
The RAID uses two options:
RAID-0 (Striping): two HDDs are used as one big drive, if one HDD fails all data is lost
RAID-1 (Mirroring): both HDDs contain the same data, if one drive fails data is not lost
I think you could check this posting and additionally use the forum advanced search for more results about RAID.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=14349&messageID=52359
In the user manual you will also find many info about RAID

Questions about using an external drive as my main drive

This topic has been addressed in discussion threads before, but I'm in search of a few details.
I have a Mac mini 1.42 combo, 512 mb RAM, with an external 250 gb MiniStack FW drive. The external FW drive spins at 7200 rpm, while the internal drive in the mini is a 4200 rpm model. Because of the higher disk speed, I'm considering making my external FW drive my main drive, then reformatting my mini's internal drive to use for backup purposes only. My backups to the mini's internal drive would be bootable, so I wouldn't have to have Tiger installed on the mini's internal drive.
Additionally, I've got my iTunes library on another partition on the same external FW drive. I'm really happy with the result of that move so far.
I've experimented a bit already. I've used SuperDuper to clone my mini's drive to a different partition on the external FW drive, and confirmed that I can boot from it using the external FW drive as my startup disk, so that's not an issue.
I'm planning to move over to the external FW drive and use that as my startup disk and main drive, but keep the mini's external drive as is for a while before I reformat it and use it strictly for backups. I've got some questions before I commit to this, though. (shudder!)
*Updates for applications and Tiger-If I continue to use Apple's Software Update to conduct my software upgrades, will it automatically update the applications on my external FW drive? I'm assuming that Software Update identifies the boot drive and the app's location before performing the update. I'm concerned that Software Update will become confused once it can't identify my mini's internal drive as the 'main' disk, and will lose the functionality to handle my updates.
*Default drives for other applications-For those of you that have already moved to an external disk as your main drive, did you have to change preferences in other apps (like the MS Office Suite) to tell them where to look for files and save new docs/save updated docs? I use Office a lot for a part-time job, and it would be a pain to have to manually update all that info.
*iTunes-As I've already stated, I've moved my iTunes music library over to a partition on my external FW drive and it's worked well so far. What concerns me is the funky way that Apple requires the iTunes management files and folders be on your main drive in your Home folder, but allows the music files to reside on a different disk. When iTunes needs to update itself, or manage the music library, is it going to be happy working from the home folder on the external disk, or will I have problems? In other words, as long as the iTunes management files are on my boot drive, am I OK?
Thanks for wading through this wordy post. If I decide to make the plunge, I'll report back to the list. I'm sure a bunch of mini owners are considering the move to external drives to boost performance. I love the machine, but I can always use more speed!
Mac Mini 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.3) MiniStack 250 GB + Hub

No problem what so ever. I am not certain you will gain anything by it, though.

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Not quite sure if this is even possible (I'm not the greatest with computers) but I'm interested in just cleaning up my hard drive. I've had the computer for a year and just want to get rid of some of the programs I'm not using in order to improve the processor speed, etc.. I know just dragging stuff to the trash doesn't completely clear it, what is the best way about going through my Mac and clearing off old files and programs.

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Question about installing a SSD drive and how to clone

Greetings,
I have a 2007 white macbook w/ 80GB HD. I have been thinking about installing a 60 GB SSD drive from OWC as the price has come down tremendously and honestly just to see how it improves boot time, launch, applications etc. I don't keep much stuff on this macbook as it is purely a "browsing" computer but I was wondering how to best clone the hard drive to the new one?
From what I understand, I use an application like Carbon copy cloner and backup "all data". Then, I turn the macbook over and follow the instructions for installing the new drive. Then, I guess I boot up and format the new drive with Snow Leopard.
When do I actually tell the recently formatted computer to transfer the data from the backup clone? Do I do this during the opening migration screen? I know how to import data from another computer using Firewire and a cable, however, does the new SSD formatted computer understand how to boot from the carbon copy cloner backup without installing this software on the new drive?
Cheers.

Julie:
I am no expert on SSDs. Here is how I would do it with a regular HDD. Note: You will need an external 2.5" enclosure.
Clone Old HDD to new HDD using SuperDuper
• Install new HDD in enclosure
• Connect to the computer and boot from internal HDD.
• Launch Disk Utility and format new HDD in enclosure (post for step by step directions, if needed)
• Download and launch SuperDuper
• In the Copy field select your internal HDD
• To is your newly formatted HDD in enclosure
• Using *backup all files*
• Click Options button
• Check *Repair Disk Permissions on Source*
• During copy Erase Destination HDD then copy from Source
• On successful completion Quit SuperDuper
• Shut down computer and with external still connected
• Option boot from external HDD to check clone.
• If everything checks out, remove new HDD from enclosure and install in computer.
• Install old HDD in enclosure (if desired)
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Question about a second hard drive..

13" MacBook Pro, Mid 2012 (Non-Retina)
Hello, in early December when in the Apple store, I was torn between a MacBook Air and Pro. After talking it over and hearing the basics from the Apple store guy, he mentioned how many people use the DVD Drive space in their Pros to fit a second hard drive! Now I'm all set up with my Pro, I'm wondering what kind of benefits this could have, so I have two questions...
1. How do I do this? Is there a spare HDD cable inside the machine? :S
2. When I fit a new HDD in the DVD Drive space can I use it as a 'seperate backup' for the other? E.g. When on the system open Time Machine and select the other internal drive as backup.
Also, I'm considering buying an OCZ 240GB SSD drive for my main and maxing ram to 8GB!
Thanks for taking the time to read and potential answers!

Others on here have done this, you can search in the box with the blue Search button towards the upper right of the page. But it is involved. You should also check the impact on your warranty and AppleCare if you bought that...Apple only permits installation of ram and replacement of the hard drive under the warranty.
There are advnatages to keeping the optical drive, such as burning disks, loading software, files, etc. An external hard drive is a good solution to the extra storage issue, and so easy to just plug in and partition and format how you want them to work.
I like having the option of the optical drive plus the external drive, which is why I have external drives for all of my Macs.

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I think it may be a problem in the VM environment, but I want to be sure. I'm planning to replace my Sidux install on my main PC with Arch later today or tomorrow. Assuming I get it installed, and get gnome installed, will the gnome volume manager work like it does in other distros? I don't mind doing the config by hand, but I do a lot with USB flash drives and USB hard drives, and it seems like it just doesn't work very well in Arch. I actually replaced my ubuntu install last week with Arch, but got tired of trying to access my music on my USB drive, never could get it to mount. So I just re-installed Ubuntu (shame on me, I know).
So any help in getting some understanding in what needs to be done would be greatly appreciated. (forgot to mention, I did follow the wiki steps for autofs, as well as the usb drive wiki stuff).
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