Firewire/USB 2.0 RAID1?

[Spaceninja]

I have been searching and searching for an external, portable, raid external enclosure. I want to be able to carry my info from home to work and vice versa. I have found external hard drive enclosures, but they either aren't for building raid arrays, or don't say.

Your probably asking why. Well I like to have things backed up. I have a ton of music that I really don't feel like having to rip back to the hard drive. 350+ CD's took me about a week. The backups on DVD's all that fun to unpack either.

I would like to mention that I use a Mac at work, and a PC at home. I would put a bigger HD in the Mac, but I am not going to invest in that. I would rather have a portable backup device. The Mac scares away all the trolls that hang around the store. They don't even look directly at it, in fear it will do something to them.

Anyway if anyone knows of a creature such as this please chime in.

[tiebird321]

something like this (http://www.cooldrives.com/worlds-smallest-usb-2-mini-removable-enclosure-for-two-ide-drives.html) or this (http://www.pacstarcomputer.com.au/shop4/product_info.php?products_id=1486&osCsid=ada1240e317772901e579958b604121f)?

[Spaceninja]

well close, guess that is going to be my only option tho. Thanks for the reply.

[BillR]

No offense buy why do you need RAID to carry music? A simple FireWire back up drive of the proper size should do fine and certainly cost you far less.

[unhappy_mage]

Or just have a local copy (possibly on a raid1), a "carry around" copy, and a script to sync them nightly.
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[Lazn_Work]

Don't forget RAID is not backup, RAID will not protect you from the most common forms of data loss (corruption, virus, accidental deletion, damaged partiton table, etc), just from a failed hard drive.

==>Lazn

[mavalpha]

Besides, remember that both Windows XP/2003 and OSX fully support software-facilitated RAID, including an array of USB drives. I don't know if the same enclosure can be used by both systems without reformatting/reconfiguring, but it's definitely something to consider.