[DigitallyChallenged]

I am setting up a mac mini server to store my music. There are two 500 gig drives. While talking with an applecare network support tech he recommended leaving the OS on one drive and then using the second drive to store the music instead of using drive two as a raid drive. His point is that performance would be much better and that I should just use an external backup to protect my data.

He's the expert but I wanted to get some opinions here about that strategy. Yea or nay?

[bpape]

Not an apple guy so take this accordingly.  In general, music servers do not require a ton of horsepower.  The kind of performance increase he's talking about will likely go unnoticed.  If RAID is a technical issue, the other option is to still leave them separate, use the 2nd drive for music, but, have a folder or folders that simply have shortcuts to folders/files on the first drive so you can maximize drive space usage.

Bryan

[DigitallyChallenged]

Not an apple guy so take this accordingly.  In general, music servers do not require a ton of horsepower.  The kind of performance increase he's talking about will likely go unnoticed.  If RAID is a technical issue, the other option is to still leave them separate, use the 2nd drive for music, but, have a folder or folders that simply have shortcuts to folders/files on the first drive so you can maximize drive space usage.

Bryan

I will be using Amarra processing instead of itunes and I have read that the more power available the better the sound. http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/amarra_mini.html

I am a mac guy but I am a server, in the sense of a true apple server system vs using a computer as a music server, neophyte.

Dave