[DM-MUG] HD FW Storage, RAID or other ideas...

[Darcy Baston]

I've been shopping around for just such a solution. Two have really  
caught my attention, both RAID solutions at the 500MB $500 +- mark:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10772

http://westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=270

Both those devices have two 500MB drives which you can setup as one  
main and one mirror (for backup) using RAID. The WesternDigital one  
has USB 2, FW400 and FW800 interfaces which is fine for archiving,  
and the lacie one uses SATA which is faster. But, reading reviews  
about the lacie one, it's bundled PCI-Express card doesn't work well  
with other SATA external drives. It's kind of a 1 to 1 thing despite  
the card having 4 SATA ports.

The latest MacWorld has the review that discovered that.

I'm hoping to go with the WesternDigital one to play it safe with  
Firewire. The drive has a pass-through port to daisychain FW devices.

Darcy Baston -- http://web.mac.com/darcybaston


On Oct 22, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

I am thinking about changing my storage set up, mainly because it  
might be easier/better to use FW HDs as storage units rather than  
burn CDs/DVDs...just returned with 20G of photos and it would be  
better to store on harddrive type than burn DVDs...perhaps some sort  
of RAID system or a system where you can put in a FW HD and burn it  
and then pull it out and put in another etc....sort of like the zip  
disks of old.

Any ideas on this type of storage solution?  I have some LaCie FW HDs  
but they are taking up space, FW ports and are used for other stuff  
and I think something that would hold insertable drives [and  
removable ones] might be a good way to go...

any suggestions?
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney, Civil Rights, Discrimination &  
Employment Law, <http://www.HerringLaw.com>;  Travel research,  
planning & Photography, <http://www.JourneyZing.com>;  Des Moines,  
Iowa, ph.515-255-4475.
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