I everyone
I am a photographer, and i currently save all my photos on a WD My Book Duo Thunderbolt, with Raid 0 setup. Since i do not have more than 2 tb of photos yet, i transfer them to an external Harddrive as a backup, but i will not have enough space on my external HDD for backup in maybe a month.
I have thought about multiple options:
Buying another My Book Thunderbolt Duo, and since it's a software RAID, make it a RAID 5
Bying a My Book Duo (usb only) with 8 TB of space, because it's cheaper, and also setup a RAID 5.
I am of course more reluctant to use method 2, since it's cheaper. But will it work? Will i be able to see the two drives in the My book Duo as two separate drives, and thereby make a Raid 5 using softraid?
Or is my only option to buy fx a Lacie D2 4000 gb, and make a Raid 5 setup, if i don't want to buy the expensive my book thunderbolt DUO?
I am not so paranoid that i need a total RAID 1 setup, so i would be glad if i could avoid that
best regards
Christian
I am a photographer, and i currently save all my photos on a WD My Book Duo Thunderbolt, with Raid 0 setup. Since i do not have more than 2 tb of photos yet, i transfer them to an external Harddrive as a backup, but i will not have enough space on my external HDD for backup in maybe a month.
I have thought about multiple options:
Buying another My Book Thunderbolt Duo, and since it's a software RAID, make it a RAID 5
Bying a My Book Duo (usb only) with 8 TB of space, because it's cheaper, and also setup a RAID 5.
I am of course more reluctant to use method 2, since it's cheaper. But will it work? Will i be able to see the two drives in the My book Duo as two separate drives, and thereby make a Raid 5 using softraid?
Or is my only option to buy fx a Lacie D2 4000 gb, and make a Raid 5 setup, if i don't want to buy the expensive my book thunderbolt DUO?
I am not so paranoid that i need a total RAID 1 setup, so i would be glad if i could avoid that
best regards
Christian