External Dual Bay enclosures

[pizza]

Hey all, I wanted to get a back up solution going for my laptop. I was taking a look at some dual bay external enclosures on ebay. Specifically these two:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182144
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16817121060
Does anyone have any experience with these or know if they can do mirroring? I would like to throw 2x 1tb drives in there and have them mirror each other? If this can't be done can Time machine do the same back ups to two drives? Do I need to find an enclosure with a raid controller built in for mirroring?

One last thing, can anyone recommend a good Wireless N router that would be good for connecting an external drive for back ups?

Thanks.

 

[sub.mesa]

Instead of relying on redundancy, i would rely on backup instead. So i would not bother with RAID1. Having a backup is superior to redundancy alone.

And why would you want a router to connect an external drive? You either need a WAP if you require the external drive to not be near to the laptop, or just a simple eSATA cable to connect it directly.

Of course, wireless is quite slow (2MB/s versus 100MB/s eSATA) - so you will need a lot of patience if you go wireless.

 

[Old Hippie]

Does anyone have any experience with these or know if they can do mirroring?

That would be RAID1 and the specs say "No".

I'm with sub.mesa...just get a quality internal drive, a quality external case, put the drive in the case and do your weekly back-up.

 

[pizza]

I just wanted to have a clear space around my laptop and not have as many wires. Maybe I get a little wire caddy under my desk and put it there. Thanks guys.

 

[Old Hippie]

I just wanted to have a clear space around my laptop and not have as many wires

Understandable and if it's just storage, why not go with a 2.5" external?

Same idea thou, get a small external case like this and a 2.5" SATA drive and put the drive in the case.

External 2.5" cases come in different drive flavors (IDE or SATA) and external connections (USB,Firewire, and SATA) so make sure your pieces-parts match.