I'd like to store media, personal files, manual backups, shared documents, etc. on a USB drive attached to my AEBS. I would like to put two 2TB drives into a RAID 1 configuration, although I'm open to other suggestions.
I've been looking around at the various options. There are external enclosures without drives, there are enclosures that only come with drives, etc. A lot of the products I've found tend to get so-so reviews due to DOAs and early failures, although I realize the dissatisfied customers are always the loudest. I found one that looked good from StarTech, but they fail to mention that it doesn't support more than two 1TB drives, which is something that I had to learn from a user review, because they don't admit to this limitation in their literature. I've also consider LaCie, like their "2 big Quadra", but they're really expensive, and their reviews are also kinda so-so.
I'm wondering if anyone can suggest an enclosure that has both a good reputation and also supports two 2TB drives in RAID 1.
Oh, and preferably not noisy. Most of these products either get complains about being too hot because there's no cooling or complaints about being loud because of a cheap cooling solution.
Thanks!
P.S. I noticed this discussion, but they're mostly talking about firewire, and there's no discussion of max capacity.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1167797/
I've been looking around at the various options. There are external enclosures without drives, there are enclosures that only come with drives, etc. A lot of the products I've found tend to get so-so reviews due to DOAs and early failures, although I realize the dissatisfied customers are always the loudest. I found one that looked good from StarTech, but they fail to mention that it doesn't support more than two 1TB drives, which is something that I had to learn from a user review, because they don't admit to this limitation in their literature. I've also consider LaCie, like their "2 big Quadra", but they're really expensive, and their reviews are also kinda so-so.
I'm wondering if anyone can suggest an enclosure that has both a good reputation and also supports two 2TB drives in RAID 1.
Oh, and preferably not noisy. Most of these products either get complains about being too hot because there's no cooling or complaints about being loud because of a cheap cooling solution.
Thanks!
P.S. I noticed this discussion, but they're mostly talking about firewire, and there's no discussion of max capacity.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1167797/