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External Raid Function

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Kelsea

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Hi guys,

I am doing an important video editing and requires an external drive. However, to ensure the security of my data( in case when the drive fails), I would use raid 1 to produce redundancy on my original drive. (at least that's what I have done to my internal drives.) I usually travel from places to places and requires portability, therefore an external drive is a must. Are there any external solution out there that offers the security function such as raid 1 while it is portable and reliable?:confused::confused::confused: HELP HELP!
 
I would backup your data instead with a second (or more) external drives. I mean what happens if the external raid blows its power supply frying both internal hard drives? Would you have any way to recover in that case?
 
drescherjm said:
I would backup your data instead with a second (or more) external drives. I mean what happens if the external raid blows its power supply frying both internal hard drives? Would you have any way to recover in that case?
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This.. RAID != backup. All it does is add avaliability.
better to have a backup copy somewhere else. (it's why i've got a metric crapton of DVDs/Blu-Ray media in the closet, backups for the RAID-Z arrays)
 
I second the idea of just dedicated backup vs RAID.
No rebuilding that way.
 
Thanks guys. Those are some interesting ideas, but I need is the portability of an external drive, and that is why I chose the RAID 1 function to back up my data by mirroring the hard drives. Are there any recommendation out there that you guys can offer?
 
1. RAID1 does not backup your data. No level of raid is a backup.
2. We were not necessarily proposing internal drives.
3. If you really want a raid1 enclosure make sure you get a second external drive (or second external raid controller) to make a backup of the raid since the raid can loose all of your data.
4. If you do not want to do #3 above get a service like crashplan or mozy to backup your data to the cloud.
 
OP, you are going to fight an uphill battle on this one. RAID is not a backup. RAID is redundancy in the event of a drive failure. We encourage you to understand the distinction in your mind.

That being said there are a variety of mirrored hard drive USB devices out on a the market. Most major hard drive manufacturers have a version of their USB drives that support it. What market are you purchasing from? And what is your budget?
 
Okay I understand what you guys mean about redundancy does not equal to back up. But RAID 1 is the function that I am interested at, and 3.0 USB transfer speed is enough for my data transfer. I am looking at probably at most 200 bucks to spend. Are there any recommendations for this spec of external drive enclosure?
 
for 200, i would just get another external drive and backup your files manually.
 
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