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To reformat or not?

  • 13-02-2014 9:13am
    #1
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭


    I am getting a new LaCie 6TB 2big Thunderbolt Series tomorrow. :D

    So, should I wipe it and reformat it on my iMac? Or should I leave it as is? I know it already comes formatted as RAID 0.

    I plan to configure it as RAID 0 anyway, since I don't need redundancy and want capacity and speed. I do backups to a NAS on my home network.

    Any comments/advice welcome.


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  • #2
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Paulw wrote: »
    I am getting a new LaCie 6TB 2big Thunderbolt Series tomorrow. :D

    So, should I wipe it and reformat it on my iMac? Or should I leave it as is? I know it already comes formatted as RAID 0.

    I plan to configure it as RAID 0 anyway, since I don't need redundancy and want capacity and speed. I do backups to a NAS on my home network.

    Any comments/advice welcome.

    Ideally time machine, if that is what you're using, is supposed to use HFS+ (MacOS extended). However you an pretty much use any format you want that's supported.

    The nas probably runs on a flavour of Linux, I wouldn't go formatting it and just work away.


  • #3
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Nah, I won't be using it for TimeMachine. I use a NAS for that.

    I plan to use the LaCie for local storage of photographs. It will be a duplicate of what is already stored on a NAS. Hence, the desire for capacity and speed.

    The main question is would you leave it as is or would you reformat it on the mac?


  • #4
    nialler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭nialler


    I'm running a 12tb & 18tb R6 Pegasus Thunderbolt RAIDs on a couple of servers around town and they're plenty fast in RAID 5 which gives you added redundancy. For storing photos as you say RAID 0 isn't going to give you an appreciable speed bump, if you were streaming large video files (2K/4K) I'd say go for 0, I presume your options are RAID 0 or 1, you've nothing to lose by trying both with a new drive but my advice is go for RAID 1, half the capacity I know but you've got the added redundancy if it were to fail.

    N


  • #5
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Thanks.

    Yeah, the options for a 2 disk system are RAID 0 or RAID 1.

    As I said, I don't need any redundancy on this device. This is a local copy of a backup of images stored on another machine (which also has off-site backups).

    Anyway, I will try it as is, and worst case, I can always reformat.


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