Mac Pro, OSX and RAID

[Wah]

Hi,
Just a quick question before I drop a ton of money on some new Macs. If I get a Mac Pro with 2 hard drives, do I need to get the apple raid card to set up a raid1 array? Or is there on onboard controller or a way to do it through the OS?

thanks...

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

With Disk Utility you can setup a RAID in the OS, so I'm assuming you don't need anything but 2 hard drives.

 

[Wah]

What is the point of an apple raid card then?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

http://www.maclife.com/article...s_raid_in_your_mac_pro

http://www.apple.com/macpro/expansion.html

 

[erikistired]

hardware raid, i believe it's faster? i think there was a discussion about this recently on the mac rumors forums, might want to search there.

edit: or just read the article above!