Mirroring WD 1TB Drives ?

[tamvly]

i am seriously considering using a software mirrored pair (RAID 1) of 1TB WD RE3 drives as an osx home drive. boot drive will be a discrete disk. another drive for windows. full backups weekly to an external drive.

space-wise, this should last me a long time. (lived with a G5 2x2.5 for four years and recently upgraded to an 8x2.8).

anyone out there tried this? satisfied with the performance and reliability? happy with the choice of western digital over seagate over?

 

[POLOgt]

anyone out there tried this? satisfied with the performance and reliability? happy with the choice of western digital over seagate over?

I have two WD 750GB RE2-GP in a software RAID 1 for my storage and backups,
The read performance is good, though it will take a minute and some to write 1GB on to them.

Had never had a problem with it so far, and I only have 185GB left ;(
Probably move to the 2TB soon, and that will last me till I need to buy a new MP.

 

[tamvly]

hmmm ... so write performance seems to suffer. rats, just as i suspected.

 

[nanofrog]

i am seriously considering using a software mirrored pair (RAID 1) of 1TB WD RE3 drives as an osx home drive. boot drive will be a discrete disk. another drive for windows. full backups weekly to an external drive.

space-wise, this should last me a long time. (lived with a G5 2x2.5 for four years and recently upgraded to an 8x2.8).

anyone out there tried this? satisfied with the performance and reliability? happy with the choice of western digital over seagate over?

The RE3's are good drives, and you should be quite happy with them.