MP All Models Help me chose an external raid ?

[darkus]

Hi all hoping for a favor!

I'm getting a new Mac Pro this week and plan on leaving almost none of my data on the internal storage, rather want to plug in a thunderbolt or USB 3 external drive which will hold all my files, photoshops data, games, you name it.

The trick is I will also be installing boot camp on this Mac and the windows 10 side will be doing the same, accessing all files other then the OS and core apps, on the external drive

My requirement are that the external be 1) a multdrive raid setup and 2) be fast enough that it will perform as if the data is on the internal system drives.

So the drives should be accessible by both Mac OS and windows.

As an added hurdle 3) I'm hoping I can somehow encrypt the data on the drives and add some kind of password protection. I realize this might be harder to accomplish but I've been out of the game for a while maybee this is doable?

And finally 4) I'm hoping for the easiest most dumbproof way of doing this with minimal to no addon software so that if one day if I get a new computer I could simply plug in the external to that new system and as long as I know the password could get back to using my data.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a drive that will achieve this and how to set it up with drive formatting and the rest?

Thank you!!!!'

 

[ilandmac]

Hi all hoping for a favor!

I'm getting a new Mac Pro this week and plan on leaving almost none of my data on the internal storage, rather want to plug in a thunderbolt or USB 3 external drive which will hold all my files, photoshops data, games, you name it.

The trick is I will also be installing boot camp on this Mac and the windows 10 side will be doing the same, accessing all files other then the OS and core apps, on the external drive

My requirement are that the external be 1) a multdrive raid setup and 2) be fast enough that it will perform as if the data is on the internal system drives.

So the drives should be accessible by both Mac OS and windows.

As an added hurdle 3) I'm hoping I can somehow encrypt the data on the drives and add some kind of password protection. I realize this might be harder to accomplish but I've been out of the game for a while maybee this is doable?

And finally 4) I'm hoping for the easiest most dumbproof way of doing this with minimal to no addon software so that if one day if I get a new computer I could simply plug in the external to that new system and as long as I know the password could get back to using my data.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a drive that will achieve this and how to set it up with drive formatting and the rest?

Thank you!!!!'

Areca Raid drives will do all of this in the simplest way possible ( it will warn you by email & visually) just pull the failed one & insert a new or working but erased drive and you're done.

I do a complete clean up of these systems every 6 months and did notice that you can insert them back in no particular order and after a few minutes, all drives and/or Raids are back on line 😎.

I use Veracrypt on mine, no issues. Never tried the bootcamp side. With Tbt3, speeds will be fast but spinning drives are still no match for internal SSD's on that issue.

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