I did some searching and didn't find anything on here...
I just got a Mini this week and want to get a nice external enclosure to hold my itunes library, photos, videos, etc... and I would prefer it to be a RAID1 so I don't have to worry so much about losing everything in case of a drive failure.
I have a 250GB SATA II drive and can get another identical model for a good price, but the enclosure is what's killing me. I don't want to fork out a ton for this, but I want something that will do a good job. RAID1 seems to bump the price up with RAID0 being the big player in the lower $ market.
Mediasonic makes a pair of products that do RAID0 or RAID1 and the price is good. The link below seems favorable too.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/4069-mediasonic-dual-bay-raid-hard-drive-enclosures-review.html
While Firewire would be the fastest thing, will I notice a major difference if I get the USB 2.0 model? Like I said, price is a factor. Once my music and such are on the drive, they won't be accessed all the time and mostly when sync'ing up my ipod, which will only copy over new data.
I can get the USB version and the extra drive for just a little more than what I would pay for the USB/Firewire version.
Has anyone used products from Mediasonic or better yet, one of these RAID1 enclosures they make?
I just got a Mini this week and want to get a nice external enclosure to hold my itunes library, photos, videos, etc... and I would prefer it to be a RAID1 so I don't have to worry so much about losing everything in case of a drive failure.
I have a 250GB SATA II drive and can get another identical model for a good price, but the enclosure is what's killing me. I don't want to fork out a ton for this, but I want something that will do a good job. RAID1 seems to bump the price up with RAID0 being the big player in the lower $ market.
Mediasonic makes a pair of products that do RAID0 or RAID1 and the price is good. The link below seems favorable too.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/4069-mediasonic-dual-bay-raid-hard-drive-enclosures-review.html
While Firewire would be the fastest thing, will I notice a major difference if I get the USB 2.0 model? Like I said, price is a factor. Once my music and such are on the drive, they won't be accessed all the time and mostly when sync'ing up my ipod, which will only copy over new data.
I can get the USB version and the extra drive for just a little more than what I would pay for the USB/Firewire version.
Has anyone used products from Mediasonic or better yet, one of these RAID1 enclosures they make?