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I have a Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. I would like to do the following, and am wondering if this is a good idea... 2GB Internal Drive = Operating System and... 2GB Internal Drive + 2GB Internal Drive (Striped RAID) = 4GB = Time Machine. (This is a total of three drives, one containing...

Thanks. Good idea. I'll check with OWC.

Some additional info... not sure if it helps. Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro1,1 Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus...

I have a Mac Pro from late-2006. I'd like to put three 1.5TB drives in it (one for the OS and two raided together for Time Machine -- I'm doing this now with three 500GB drives). I've heard that some motherboards cannot support drives up to that size (on computers manufactured by companies...

I have three internal 500GB drives in my Mac Pro. I'd like to know if I can set them up as one large volume with hotswap capabilities. I've heard before that I can use RAID to get a single 1TB volume out of the three, and swap out any of the three drives if only one fails at any point in the...

I purchased this card for my Mac Pro: "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (early 2008) Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro" http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB137Z/A I spoke with multiple Geniuses. I spoke with AppleCare. Everyone is telling me that this is the card for my Mac Pro model. They looked up...

Actually, it was purchased in November of 2007 and it's called the "Early 2008 Mac Pro". I checked with Apple about it. They looked up the serial number to get the specs. The pre-"early 2008 Mac Pro" didn't have the PCI Express 2.0 interface, while mine does. This showed up in the 2008 models...

I have a Mac Pro that was purchased in November of 2007 (I believe it's called the "early 2008 model", as opposed to the "first-gen Mac Pro"). I currently have the ATI Radeon X1900 card. I've been having issues (more and more over time and, according to reviews of the card, I'm not alone) and...

(I posted the following in another thread where this issue first started. I broke it off and created this thread because it was a different Time Machine issue than the original.) A tribute to Mac OS X is the fact that I've never used RAID before and was able, in a few minutes, to set up a...

A tribute to Mac OS X is the fact that I've never used RAID before and was able, in a few minutes, to set up a striped RAID (0) drive using two internal 500 GB drives, tell Time Machine to use the combined 1 TB drive for the backup volume, and get Time Machine backing up my startup volume. :)...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1625887&tstart=0 Maybe the discussion referenced about explains this? The TM disk needs about 2x the space of the disk being backed up to get an initial backup going. I've asked in another thread already (for a different problem with Time...

I have a feeling that the fact that the TM backup disk is the same size as the startup volume caused this issue. I cannot get a backup going now (see me most recent previous post), and I just found this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1625887&tstart=0 Others have had the...

Thanks for the info, Doctor X. I'll consider investing in one of the tools. I've been putting it off, but I may find it useful if I have an issue in the future. I'm getting a weird error now that I'm trying to back up my drive with Time Machine...

I am getting the following error from Time Machine when doing my first backup. The startup disk being backed up, and the TM disk are both the same size. Macintosh HD: 465.44 (total); 393.99 (free); 71.45 (free) Time Machine: 465.44 (total); 465.29 (free) The Time Machine error is: Why...

I don't really need anything off the Time Machine disk since it's just a backup of my startup disk. Of course, the hours I'll need to spend waiting for TM to do its thing after I erase the disk is going to be irritating, but stuff happens. My main question is whether or not I should erase the TM...

I rebooted. OS X is telling me that I should reformat the Time Machine disk ASAP. I cannot even repair the disk any longer. So I guess the main question now is should I even use this disk any longer? If this is a hardware issue (could it be?), should I use another available internal disk...

And here are the Disk Utility messages when I ran a repair on the Time Macine volume. OK, so should I wipe the Time Machine disk and try to start over with it? What does this all mean about the TM disk itself. Is it physically damaged in some way, or is this not an indication of that?

Verify Disk failed. Trying a repair now. If the repair fails...do I need to erase it and start over with my Time Machine backups? (I'm starting to get a little worried...backups are all that separate us from the lower primates.)

I'll try this now with Disk Utility. If I verify the disk, and it says all good, can I skip the repair, or should I still run it?

Time Machine stopped backing up two days ago in the middle of the day. The error is the same just about every time. I've repaired permissions, deleted .inProgress files, updated the OS to the latest release, applied all security patches, etc. I've spent three hours working on this, and need some...