Will it work to have a 5th, non-RAID SATA drive (from the sata ports on the logic board) in the second optical drive bay for XP, and then boot OS X from the 4-disk RAID 5 array? Windows doesn't even need to know the RAID is there, as long as boot camp can see both. That, and the fact that I already have 3 identical 500gb hard drive (spinpoints) and I live in India, where we have 7-8 hours of scheduled power outages, having 1 less box to run is a GOOD idea (I run on batteries during the outages - batteries are already wearing out). I was dead set on unRAID until I read a review on barefeats about these new sub-$250 RAID cards for the Mac Pro. I feel the need for data redundancy, having lost 3 hard drives in the past 2 months. I'm debating between building an unRAID server or suping up my Mac Pro with a RAID Card and going with RAID 5.
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