Mac OS X Software RAID

[PowerMacX]

I have two 30GB internal HDs, and I was thinking of using Mac OS X software RAID (on Disk Utility) to make my mac a little faster. But before I sart backing up everything I have two questions:

1. Is it really worth it, speedwise?
2. If I ever restart in OS 9, will it recognize the RAID set? After all, it's just software RAID...

Thanks for your help!

 

[Pengu]

From what i know, software raid, won't give you much of a speed boost, and really only helps in terms of redundancy, if you're using.. mirroring to ensure you have a backup. and. i think the software raid thing is X dependant, so i doubt 9 would even boot.

 

[scruffy]

Mirroring will slow things down a fair bit, but give you redundancy. Striping will speed things up a little, but reduce resistance to hard disk failure - if one disk fails, all the info is gone.

 

[lancer1993]

Also from what I have read you need 3 hard disks. The limited RAID software with OS X means the OS can't be on the RAID drives, this limits how usefull it is. You can only use RAID 0 or 1, is there other RAID software that can be used on OS X?