Looking for a 1 TB enclosure kit (Raid)

[domerdel]

I bought 2 maxtor drives (on the way), 500 GB each SATA II 16 MB cache 7K series.

I want some sort of enclosure kit that will hold both drives, that I can do a RAID 0 and connect via USB 2.0

 

[wahnula]

Might as well plan for the future:

http://www.computerhq.com/Norco_5_Bay_eSATA_RAID_Hard_Drive/DS-500/products/partinfo-id-859004.html

It comes with an eSATA PCI card. Why would you want a RAID 0 array on USB? If it's for storage, RAID 0 is the least fault-tolerant. I would buy two separate economy enclosures for USB storage. If you plan on running your OS on the 1TB RAID 0 array, you'd better partition it first, and find a faster bus to ride than USB 2.0. I'm afraid it will bottleneck any speed increase RAID 0 will provide...I am guessing as I have never tried this. This is half the cost but I'm afraid half the speed too:

http://www.usb-ware.com/firewire-usb-raid-2-drive-ezraid.htm

Tony

 

[domerdel]

I found one:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEFW924AL2K/

 

[wahnula]

Read this before you set up a RAID 0 array for storage:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/single.htm

My favourite quote:

Using a RAID 0 array without backing up any changes made to its data at least daily is a loud statement that that data is not important to you.

A word to the wise.

Tony