Mac Mini RAID-0 : Set-Up, Performance, Rationale
Channel: NewJerusalemTimes
Date: 19/04/2014

Christian Livingstone gives an overview of his initial experience and rationale for setting up a RAID-0 array, using two internal laptop hard drives within his 2011 Mac mini computer. 

The RAID-0 array is performance tested on the video and compared to a typical, individual 5400 rpm 2.5" drive, and to an individual 7200 rpm 2.5" drive, which is also consider a "hybrid", since it has a small segment of Solid State memory for repetitive tasks. And the RAID-0 array is comprised of two of these identical "hybrid" drives, which are a Seagate Momentus XT model. 

The "block" or "strip" size selected was 128k (to assist performance with larger video file during editing), even though the video doesn't actually show that, as the screen recorder widget quit recording at that particular moment and 5 minute mark, which was also a moment or two before the "create" selection was clicked, which made the two drive images show and mount as one individual RAID icon. Sorry about that. But that was all it was, having taken only about 10 seconds to do that. 

And I did start to go back and "zero out" even the unused portions of the hard drives, but then skipped that, as it would take a while for that, and the drives were new/re-certified, anyway. I may go back a zero-out everything and re-RAID everything when I a lot some time for it. But the video continues with making the RAID-0 array into a bootable start-up disk by cloning from the external Firewire drive, then onto the actual testing of the RAID-0 array. And I'm digging' it!