It also saves those around me from the ranting that would occur if RAIDing weren't easier on a Mac. It saves me time, frustration, and worry. Not to bash any other operating systems, but I'm not sure how easy this would have been if I were not using a Mac. I broke it off and created this thread because it was a different Time Machine issue than the original.)Ī 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.
(I posted the following in another thread where this issue first started.