Just got a new package in the mail from B&H containing a Buffalo 2TB DriveStation Duo. ; This external hard disk can be set up in 3 ways: ; (2) 1TB separate drives, (1) 2TB drive (raid 0), or (2) 1TB mirrored drive (raid 1). ; Looking forward to setting this up and getting it going as a backup drive for photos. ; Look for a full review in the near future. $239.00 Click Here!
if the drives are separate and can be replaced, then go raid 1, this gives you 2 full images, so if one drive fails you still have the other, i anticipate having one of these setups soon and for those in the know, i'm sitting here in the apple store while they completely reinstall snow lepoard, seems my hard drive got burned by the hot roast spilling on it, but repair covered by care package i purchased with macbook pro, i should be back and processing photos by tommorrow night, tonight taken up by karen's work christmas party
Yes, I got a similar one a few months ago... http://www.themagicinpixels.com/forum/h ... ic.php?t=1 Works rather well, especially since I'm daisychaining it through my Iomega drive that's running as my Time Machine drive.
I would also suggest raid 1. ; The issue with raid 0 is that if one drive fails the whole system is bad. ; Because the files are split across both drives, if one goes it is almost impossible to have the system reassemble the files. ; A co-worker had this issue and no way to recover. ; I know you loose overall storage space (half of the total) you can use this as a primary storage because there is automatic backup. ; This looks pretty sweet and not expensive. ; I have been longing for a Drobo for years but the price keeps me from getting. ; Maybe this is a alternative. ; Looking forward to the review. ;
you can set this up 3 days... raid 0 - one large volume spanning 2 disks raid 0 - two individual drives with 2 drive letters raid 1 - two mirrored drives with 1 drive letter with redundancy
i am also considering the larger 4tb drive which is networkable and such... Buffalo 4TB LinkStation Quad Network Hard Drive
I have experience with a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ file server. ; It can be configured with RAID-5, which means that if one drive fails, you don't lose any data (unless a second drive fails before you replace the first failed drive, which has happened to me on a different brand of file server). ; They're reliable and well-supported. The down side is that it is a computer running Linux, which means it takes several minutes to start up or shut down.
