External Storage

[dlighty]

I was wondering if anyone has setup dual external hard drives, mirrored?

And what brands of external drives are better? Maxtor over Seagate, etc.

Thanks.

 

[airfoil]

Dont know about external mirroring, but here's a suggestion:

Go to this site, take your pick of an external enclosure and use any hard drive you want to in the enclosure.

 

[dorfer]

Are you looking to setup multiple drives in an external enclosure and mirroring them for data reliability and speed? There are different ways to "combine" two more drives.

I have just started researching this subject myself as I need some type of external storage for digital video and project file storage. I was thinking of going with some type of external FireWire enclosure with a RAID setup. I have two 200GB Seagate drives and was thinking I can set them up using a stripped volume RAID setup.

Any suggestions? I started looking around at some of the cases and how RAID works within Windows XP (I've never really used a RAID setup before).

 

[EeyoreX]

I'm not sure about mirroring external drives either. As far as which brand is better, that is simple. Whichever brand is on sale at the time. I also agree that buying the enclosure and drive seperately might save you a few dolla-dolla bills.

\Dan

 

[WackyDan]

New Egg and other's have external SATA enclosures.... All you would need is long SATA cables to your onboard riad controller, or ideally an add in SATA raid card with external ports. ( they do have those. )......Add drives to the external enclosures and you are on your ay to having that setup.....

You could also have meant to ask for a multiple drive SATA raid enclosure.... of which several exist. Toms Hardware just did a review on 4 or 5 of them so I suggest you start there if that's what you are really looking for.