Hi, all!
I just picked up two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 TB drives from Bestbuy for $189.99
. They went on sale today.
And looking for an enclosure to set them up with, preferably hardware RAID 1 (mirroring). I think I've narrowed it down to one of two enclosures:
Guardian MAXimus (hardware RAID 1) or OWC Mercury Elite-AL (hardware RAID 0 or software RAID 1).
Any input would be appreciated. I suspect hardware RAID runs faster and with less hindrance of normal computing as it does not require processor/memory use for mirroring portion of RAID processing.
Have you used either of these? Would you recommend one over the other? Or do you have another recommendation?
Thanks in advance!
I just picked up two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 TB drives from Bestbuy for $189.99
. They went on sale today.And looking for an enclosure to set them up with, preferably hardware RAID 1 (mirroring). I think I've narrowed it down to one of two enclosures:
Guardian MAXimus (hardware RAID 1) or OWC Mercury Elite-AL (hardware RAID 0 or software RAID 1).
Any input would be appreciated. I suspect hardware RAID runs faster and with less hindrance of normal computing as it does not require processor/memory use for mirroring portion of RAID processing.
Have you used either of these? Would you recommend one over the other? Or do you have another recommendation?
Thanks in advance!