pahoran said:
Btw how did you accomplish the stripped home folder? ... I moved my home folder thru the "Advanced User Settings" under system preferences, and it worked but after I rebooted it says i cant boot the the account.
Thanks for the kind words! Basically what I did was:
1) Complete my installation as documented with a single user called "Administrator" (short name "administrator") on the boot drive. I always recommend this as a fallback in case the stripe goes down (so you still have a user you can log in as).
2) Used Disk Utility to create the 3 disk stripe. It's been a while since I did this; as these disks moved over from a previous machine; but it should just work. There are probably many tutorials for creating stripes with Disk Utility out there.
3) Created a new user for me in System Preferences -> Users & Groups. Log out as Administrator and log in as the new user.
4) Create a folder on the stripe array called "Users".
5) Copy my entire /Users/username folder over to the striped drive /Users folder.
6) Go into System Preferences -> Users & Groups and right-clicked on my account and click "Advanced Options...". Click "choose" next to "Home directory:" and select the newly copied folder on the striped array. Click OK.
7) Reboot and log-in as yourself.
8) Delete the /Users/username folder from the boot hard drive. Note that you ONLY delete your user folder. Not /Users or /Users/administrator, as you want to keep those in case you need to log in as Administrator.
This worked very easily for me, and has been surprisingly robust.