Fast/Reliable Raid for a Mac

[Tibbon]

I currently have two Lacie D2 drives in a Raid 1 configuration, but I need more hard drive space, and the things that I am hearing about Lacie drives is making me a little wary of them.

Does anyone have suggestions for around 1TB (figuring that I may be recording in 192 with my new Ensemble) of Raid 1 or Raid 0 + 1 storage that will work well with my Mac? Firewire? Fibrechannel? SATA?

I don't have the money for an XSan, I know this much. I need to to be able to play back around 32 tracks of 192/24 if needed smoothly, and if one drive goes down, then I won't loose the whole bunch. I don't mind having to screw together things myself or doing a little DIY to put something together. Oh, and the only other thought is that it should either be able to drive a long cable, or be rather quiet.

[opentune]

What about a raid level 5 system?

[Tibbon]

Originally Posted by opentune

What about a raid level 5 system?

I guess another thing is budget. It's either hard drive space, or other studio equipment here, so I can't spend 4,000 on hard drive setups right now. If there's an affordable and fast Raid 5 system, that would be great, but multiple controllers and so many drives make it a little much moneywise.

[opentune]

http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10033

These systems look affordable. The "biggest s1s" has Raid 5 built over
4 disks - so it should be pretty quick (and safe).

I assume you are happy with the Lacie stuff...

[Vaphoron]

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other...ng/MEFW912AL2/

I just picked up two of those and I'm very happy with them so far. For the time being I put 2 Seagate 200GB drives in each but I plan swapping them out for 500GB drives when they come down in price.