iCloud will be announced @ WWDC

[rugby]

Yes and yes.

There is a Mac Pro RAID card, but it's like $500 on ebay, and I'm using a hackintosh. I can go with a rocketraid card, but that's over $100 and is 4 ports.

I have a mobo with the ICH10 southbridge which doesn't do RAID5. ICH10R does RAID5. FML.

Basically, I've got a Q6600/EP45-DS3L hackintosh that I'm setting up as a fileserver. I have 6 SATA connections on the board and want 5x1.5TB for RAID5 and my 60GB SSD. Seeing as how my old mobo doesn't do RAID5, and I don't really want to spend $100 to get it, a new mobo or RAID card is out.

My cheapest option is to run linux with software RAID5, and then virtualize OSX on top. It'd be nicer if it was just OSX though.

I suppose I could JBOD, but 5 disks in JBOD... I dunno.

Apparently software RAID5 was around in OS9 but disappeared in X.

The Apple raid card for the Mac Pro is such a piece of garbage I would *NOT* recommend getting one. We are an AASP and if we get one in for repairs we might have to swap it with 2-3 cards from Apple before one is rock solid. The XServe cards are fine and relatively bulletproof. My own personal Intel XServe has been running for almost 3 years with no issues.

ZFS is what you are looking for with 5 JBOD disks. Apple didn't support any software RAID in OS 9, that was done all through SoftRAID.

 

[rugby]

OS X already supports software JBOD RAID
Right, RAID 5 gives parity and integrity right? But doesn't it require at least 3 hard drives to work? The only Mac they sell with 3 drives is the Mac Pro.

JBOD raid is RAID 0 and if you lose ANY drive, you lose all of your data. ZFS is quite different from that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs

You don't really want RAID 5 in this day and age, it's too slow compared to RAID 10 and doesn't have the failsafe of RAID 6. Sadly, once you buy a Mac Pro to get any raid solution worth a crap you are talking external + card.

 

[silverpig]

True, but RAID 5 is old and dead. RAID 6 and RAID 10 is the sweet spot now.

RAID 6 and RAID 10 take more drives. This is going to be a file server. I want to make the most out of my 5 free SATA ports.

I don't care about speed. I'll be streaming media from the array over wireless-N, and am using WD Greens.

RAID5 is the best choice here. I'll probably go with linux software RAID unless I can find an EP45-DS3R handy somewhere.

 

[theevilsharpie]

True, but RAID 5 is old and dead. RAID 6 and RAID 10 is the sweet spot now.

lulz

Edit:

JBOD raid is RAID 0 and if you lose ANY drive, you lose all of your data.

lulz

 

[theevilsharpie]

You don't really want RAID 5 in this day and age, it's too slow compared to RAID 10 and doesn't have the failsafe of RAID 6.

RAID 5 is fine for the quantity of disks you'd find in a desktop PC, and while it is slower than RAID 10, it would be extremely difficult to see that difference in a desktop environment. The reduced disk space or the money spent to get the disk space you want with RAID 10 is much more apparent.

 

[amdhunter]

BUMP - Only a few hours to go. For some odd reason, even though there is no hardware announcement planned, I am actually excited.

New iOS notification system? (might be mockup) (removed dead link)

 

[Kaido]

The one big thing I want is a central iTunes repository (I'd even be willing to buy a Time Capsule for that!). That would work sooo much easier with AppleTV's and Airport Express's. That, and I want them to emulate Sono's experience - multiple streams to multiple devices from multiple libraries (or a single centralized model).

 

[silverpig]

Should we do a dedicated thread to the liveblogs?

 

[jalaram]

Should we do a dedicated thread to the liveblogs?

Let's just reuse this thread. OP needs to change the title however.

Steve Jobs on stage now.

 

[silverpig]

Lion stuff. When will it be ready? I'd go buy it today most likely if I could get a disk somewhere.

 

[rugby]

Lion stuff. When will it be ready? I'd go buy it today most likely if I could get a disk somewhere.

It's not going to be ready today, it's pretty brutal right now.

 

[silverpig]

Mac App store stuff now... I never really use it myself and find it to be a poor implementation of a for-pay version of a linux package manager

 

[rugby]

I hope to GOD there's a setting in Resume to turn it off.

 

[jalaram]

hmmm. Built-in version control?

 

[silverpig]

Hmm, the new version of mail looks a lot like sparrow, which I just bought for $10 and love.

 

[jalaram]

$29.99 for Lion and only d/l-able.

 

[silverpig]

"1:36PM Wow, no more discs. Lion will be available only in the App Store. Making it the "Easiest upgrade ever.""

Hmmm, how to hackintosh?

 

[jalaram]

"1:36PM Wow, no more discs. Lion will be available only in the App Store. Making it the "Easiest upgrade ever.""

Hmmm, how to hackintosh?

My thoughts too.

July release, but no date yet.

iOS5 time.

 

[silverpig]

Notifications... finally.

 

[jalaram]

Notification Center aggregates all the notifications. It's accessed by swiping down from the top.

Swipe down from top to see notifications? That sounds familiar.

 

[silverpig]

Android notifications. Hurray.

 

[dawks]

"1:36PM Wow, no more discs. Lion will be available only in the App Store. Making it the "Easiest upgrade ever.""

Hmmm, how to hackintosh?

Theres got to be a way to burn the download. People still need offline installs.

 

[silverpig]

Okay when can I get iOS5?

 

[silverpig]

Finally they bring the reader feature to safari on iOS... it's been there for the OSX version and is nice, but really needed to come to the mobile web for those sites that don't (still!) have good mobile versions.

 

[Kaido]

Finally they bring the reader feature to safari on iOS... it's been there for the OSX version and is nice, but really needed to come to the mobile web for those sites that don't (still!) have good mobile versions.

Plus saved tab sync across devices! That's a great feature for me, as I tend to switch devices during the day. Hope it syncs to desktop too!