I have a mac pro and I want to triple boot Windows 7 64 bit, OSX (newest version in 64 bit), and Linux Mint 11 64 bit. I had tried to dual-boot Windows and OSX in the past and was frustrated because I had one boot drive (with both OS's installed) and one data drive (where I kept all of my files). I had formatted the data drive with some type of mac file format and then windows couldn't use the files (I forget if it had problems reading or writing or what). I had tired using MacDrive but there was some part of it that didn't work well for (forget what it was), so I don't want to go that route again.
The problem is that I want to work with the same files in all 3 operating systems. I was thinking about using three hard drives and setting them up like this:
HD1 - 300 gig - all 3 OS's installed with rEFIt (no data files)
HD2 - 750 gig - osx data volume (formatted in mac format having all the files I like to play with, which are identical to HD3)
HD3 - 750 gig - windows/linux data volume (windows format having all the files I like to play with, which are identical to HD2)
(Drive sizes cuz I own these drives right now).
I would be willing to give OSX a go again if I could keep the files synched between HD2 and HD2. I have been using synctoy in windows to sync files to a USB thumb drive between my desktop and my netbook and have been quite pleased, so if there were something that could sync the two files that would be great. I have heard of dropbox, but I don't want to store anything on a "cloud" or transfer files over a network. I would like to have an app that runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux (doesn't have to be the same app) that would synch all the folders on the two drives, so they stay at home with me.
Also, since I have an extra HD slot, is there anyway that I could add in HD4 and do some kind of RAID setup where I mirror the boot volume in case it goes down I can stay up? I don't know if that's possible. Thanks.
