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Originally Posted by leoleo
Hi Guys,
I have a 100GB Internal and a 500GB External (both fairly full)
I'm going to get a 1TB external and create a 100GB partition for the boot-clone of my internal drive and use the rest of the space to put the 500GB's worth of files (and have room free - essentially REPLACING the 500GB drive which I'll sell or use for non-essential data).
My question is this:
1) Should I purchase a 2TB external RAID unit like Lacies 2BIG Triple 2GB (highly regarded unit)
OR
2) Purchase two seperate 1TB drives and have the same data on each? - was thinking pleiades enclosures - Macpower / Home / Storage Solutions / 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosures / Pleiades / Pleiades Super S-Combo
Obviously the benefit of 1) is convenience, benefit of 2) is i COULD have incremental backups - say on backup each night - the other each week so I can "rollback" if needed.
- Is RAID 1 REALLY that safe? - is there any chance of a power surge / knock to the drive etc that could destroy both drives at the same time?
- It would obviously be more of a pain organising two drives but frankly I don't want to lose my data so I'll do whatever it takes really.
Any comments / suggestions / questions most welcome.
Thanks in advance!
** Dec '06 MacBook Pro 17" / 2.33Ghz / 2GiB Ram / OSX 10.5.2 Leopard** |
Personally I would get an external with RAID unless you have data that you wan't to lose, it would be less hassle to get 1 unit then 2 and then move the data 2x and keep it synced.... bla bla bla...
I personally think that...