Hey everyone, endless thanks for reading. 
Here's the issue.
I am meaning to get 3TB of storage.
In the form of 2 1.5TB HD's.
Since this is meant for storage, lightning fast speeds won't be necessary.
However, I expect to watch very high res/HD videos from these HD's (upwards of 40Gigs a piece)
I will likely be getting eSATA.
For my dual bay enclosure I will be getting http://www.icydock.com/product/mb662us-2s.html OR http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilestor/ms2tplusb.html.
Both of them support my capacity and have eSATA, so great!
The Icy Dock has a raid controller built in, the Sans doesn't.
I'd really appreciate input on which enclosure to get, but that's not my main issue.
Most likely ill go with icy dock. I have a Dell XPS 435mt, and i'm not sure if raid will work properly :??:
Either i'll do BIG/jbod (merge the two disks into 1 logical drive).
Or SAFE 33 (33% raid 1, 67% jbod)
I'm just a little worried about the safety of the first choice though.
If 1 drive fails then both disks would be inaccessible right?
Also just how good is safe 33?
Ok next thing is choosing a HD..
http://www.amazon.com/Western-...&qid=1253062509&sr=8-1 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822152175
Both are considered great from what I hear.. Theyre both 1.5tb and run at around 5400RPM, theyre both quiet and well-priced. The samsung is about 24 bucks cheaper for me right now. Also I've heard that the samsung is a little quieter and has better write speeds.
The WD Caviar Green is nice, and its WD.. However even on the icydock page it says that for WD's i need raid edition not desktop.. Raid's are much more expensive.
So i could do WDTLER and change the read/write time to 7 seconds, and probably get away with the WD.
Or I can get the Samsung, but how will that fair in Raid (Safe 33)?
That pretty much sums it up.
Right now i'm thinking icy dock + samsung/wd... i just need to know if it will work properly!
I'm willing to spend around 350 for the setup, and ideas/options are very welcome..
Thanks in advance,
I really appreciate the help!!
Here's the issue.
I am meaning to get 3TB of storage.
In the form of 2 1.5TB HD's.
Since this is meant for storage, lightning fast speeds won't be necessary.
However, I expect to watch very high res/HD videos from these HD's (upwards of 40Gigs a piece)
I will likely be getting eSATA.
For my dual bay enclosure I will be getting http://www.icydock.com/product/mb662us-2s.html OR http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilestor/ms2tplusb.html.
Both of them support my capacity and have eSATA, so great!
The Icy Dock has a raid controller built in, the Sans doesn't
.I'd really appreciate input on which enclosure to get, but that's not my main issue.
Most likely ill go with icy dock. I have a Dell XPS 435mt, and i'm not sure if raid will work properly :??:
Either i'll do BIG/jbod (merge the two disks into 1 logical drive).
Or SAFE 33 (33% raid 1, 67% jbod)
I'm just a little worried about the safety of the first choice though.
If 1 drive fails then both disks would be inaccessible right?
Also just how good is safe 33?
Ok next thing is choosing a HD..
http://www.amazon.com/Western-...&qid=1253062509&sr=8-1 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822152175
Both are considered great from what I hear.. Theyre both 1.5tb and run at around 5400RPM, theyre both quiet and well-priced. The samsung is about 24 bucks cheaper for me right now. Also I've heard that the samsung is a little quieter and has better write speeds.
The WD Caviar Green is nice, and its WD.. However even on the icydock page it says that for WD's i need raid edition not desktop.. Raid's are much more expensive.
So i could do WDTLER and change the read/write time to 7 seconds, and probably get away with the WD.
Or I can get the Samsung, but how will that fair in Raid (Safe 33)?
That pretty much sums it up.
Right now i'm thinking icy dock + samsung/wd... i just need to know if it will work properly!
I'm willing to spend around 350 for the setup, and ideas/options are very welcome..
Thanks in advance,
I really appreciate the help!!
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